Dean Smith - Confirmed

[Rudy65]

That last line "that one's for the old man"

yep, that was very touching and very telling. Through it all the club has stuck together. Even watching someone like Bjorn Engels in the celebration who has been out injured for a good while. We kept it together.

I still think Engels is a decent player. Probably the only one

[itmustbe_it is!]

Love Dean, had a wobble with him after the Man U match but now how could you not want him to stay and keep building .

All about the recruitment now

[paul_e]

That last line "that one's for the old man"

yep, that was very touching and very telling. Through it all the club has stuck together. Even watching someone like Bjorn Engels in the celebration who has been out injured for a good while. We kept it together.

I still think Engels is a decent player. Probably the only one

Nah, I like him as well, I think it's eaxsy to forget that he's as mcu hof a kid as the rest of the defence and he's the only one that had to adapt to the UK as well.

[simboy]

That last line "that one's for the old man"

yep, that was very touching and very telling. Through it all the club has stuck together. Even watching someone like Bjorn Engels in the celebration who has been out injured for a good while. We kept it together.

I still think Engels is a decent player. Probably the only one

3 clubs in three years. Make of that what you will.

However, Smith has done ok this season. Had the spine ripped out by loans and players too old for the prem and with a bit of luck, a great deal of work and encouraging some class performances he kept us up. 

Perhaps a bigger achievement than last year

[Ian.]

On the BT interview when asked what he expected next for Jack he said” I expect him to get drunk with me tonight”.

Love it

[steamer]

I wanted him gone, good job I am not in charge.
Some ambitous signings and hopefully some lessons learnt by Dean and maybe next year a bit more to look forward too.
Have a deserved few beers and a earned break.

[villa `cross the mersey]

That last line "that one's for the old man"

yep, that was very touching and very telling. Through it all the club has stuck together. Even watching someone like Bjorn Engels in the celebration who has been out injured for a good while. We kept it together.

I still think Engels is a decent player. Probably the only one

Nah, I like him as well, I think it's eaxsy to forget that he's as mcu hof a kid as the rest of the defence and he's the only one that had to adapt to the UK as well.

He is married to a Liverpool lass who's cousin I speak with from time to time ...havnt seen him lately as I've been keen to discuss Engels absence from the squad..

[garyfouroaks]

I am a veteran Villa fan who on this forum. I have always been quick to back managers, and slow to call for their sacking.

Dean Smith did a very good job securing Villa promotion last season, he did it with the fifth best team in the Division.

He was totally inexperienced at PL level – that was a big risk.

His signings have been unimpressive. Yet you can never be sure whether they were his, or “The Board’s”, and he had to recruit in numbers. The Championship side would have finished bottom. When you do recruit in numbers chemistry is an unknown.

I think that retaining him is too big a risk, and it would be kinder to all if he left this summer with a promotion and creditable survival campaign on his CV. His reputation enhanced, and untarnished.

[Billy Walker]

I have to say it,  Deano has balls of steel.  Like others , I wobbled, but Deano held firm in his belief, never wavered and showed astonishing, focused leadership throughout the season and - more tellingly - through the Covid crisis. 

Promotion, a Cup Final and now safety against the odds, Deano's worked three miracles in a very short space of time and he deserves nothing but huge praise.  I'm downing a pint right now and I raise it to the Boss. 

[SoccerHQ]

That last line "that one's for the old man"

yep, that was very touching and very telling. Through it all the club has stuck together. Even watching someone like Bjorn Engels in the celebration who has been out injured for a good while. We kept it together.

I still think Engels is a decent player. Probably the only one

Nah, I like him as well, I think it's eaxsy to forget that he's as mcu hof a kid as the rest of the defence and he's the only one that had to adapt to the UK as well.

He was good up to November. I actually thought he played well in the cup final aswell considering it was only two weeks after the Spurs game.

I assume though he's told DS he wants out which is why he hasn't been making the bench lately. If we sign another CB he seems the obvious one to go.

[Toronto Villa]

He's been injured for ages now

[N'ZMAV]

not convinced - but job done. I thought we was dead and buried.

Now all we need to do it get another 8 good players for the first team, and we'll be ok.

[Villan For Life]

I’d keep him on, he deserves to build on what he started. The recruitment this summer is going to be huge, we need to sign players with a bit of footballing nous. We don’t seems able to close matches down and that has to be fixed. Late goals have killed us too many times.

[N'ZMAV]

I’d keep him on, he deserves to build on what he started. The recruitment this summer is going to be huge, we need to sign players with a bit of footballing nous. We don’t seems able to close matches down and that has to be fixed. Late goals have killed us too many times.

yeah - he's earned another go next season.

[PeterWithesShin]