Johan Lange - appointed

[Risso]

DOF at Spurs would be hell on earth.

Imagine working with Daniel Levy everyday?

No thanks

"I've found the next Haaland, boss. They want £30m"

"Offer them £2m and Eric Dier."

[PaulTheVillan]

DOF at Spurs would be hell on earth.

Imagine working with Daniel Levy everyday?

No thanks

"I've found the next Haaland, boss. They want £30m"

"Offer them £2m and Eric Dier."

Nailed it.

[eamonn]

Still, a nice payrise and a move to North London, I'm sure he'll manage.

[pauliewalnuts]

Had his nose pushed out by Monchi and the Spanish team and wants a DOF role at a club regarded as one of the Big6.

like it or not that is how he will see Spurs and so do the rest of football bar us Villans.

He is trying to further his career

Have to agree with the above comments on another Villa website

If he is trying to further his career, it's as likely to be because his move when Monchi came in looked very much like "keep him at the club in some random new role we'll invent at group level" whilst Monchi got all the power at club level.

[algy]

Comes as no surprise at all, was pretty clear his days were numbered once Monchi came in.

[Ducksworthy]

And gone!

https://www.avfc.co.uk/news/2023/october/09/youth-development-and-international-academies-update/

[Villan For Life]

And gone!

https://www.avfc.co.uk/news/2023/october/09/youth-development-and-international-academies-update/

Just a few lines at the bottom of a press release about restructuring shows how far he’s dropped down the order. No massive surprise really though.

[Toronto Villa]

Good luck to him. We made some decent signings while he was with us and a few that didn’t work out. It’s where we are that he’s gone to Spurs and we have one of the most highly thought of football club management teams in Europe with Emery and Monchi.

[Beard82]

Good luck to him. We made some decent signings while he was with us and a few that didn’t work out. It’s where we are that he’s gone to Spurs and we have one of the most highly thought of football club management teams in Europe with Emery and Monchi.

I would be really interested to know about the dynamics during the chaos that seemed to happen when Grealish left.  It felt to me that he was getting what he was to get.

[VillaTim]

He did a solid 7/10 job for us , but we have outgrown him . So bye .

[Smithy]

There is an interesting bit in Ben Foster's latest podcast about Johan.  Foster is interviewing Henri Lansbury, and he's talking about being dropped from the 25-man squad when he was here, and being told to play with the U23s after no loan materialised.  He basically said it was Johan who told him he he couldn't train with the first team any more (as Dean Smith said it was "from the top").  He went to see Johan, who tried to get him to sign an agreement to let him leave become a free agency, paying up 25% of his final year on his contract.  I mean, would have been a great deal for us, but what player in their right mind with his injury record would sign that?!

Sounds like he was a bit more influential behind the scenes than perhaps we thought.

[PaulWinch again]

Always very hard to judge these types of roles, but in the round (and I accept it’s definitely not all down to him) we’ve moved forward in his time at the club. Thanks Johan and if you could bring Spurs down that’d be great.

[PeterWithesShin]

Lansbury did end up leaving on a mutual in Jan.

[LeonW]

Interesting development.

[Olof's Beard]

Anyone seen this arrogant, deluded bollocks?

https://www.football.london/tottenham-hotspur-fc/transfer-news/tottenham-johan-lange-aston-villa-27875342

Apparently Douglas Luiz would be a 'divisive' signing for a team who regularly play Oliver Skipp in midfield.