Next Manager Speculation and wishful thinking thread

[N'ZMAV]

I've just started a game on football manager as Villa - I reckon a good season for me on there and I'll ping Purslow my cv

[Beard82]

If he’s not gone by the end of the international break I think we can be confident there was no-one that they fancied available. 

Think he’ll be given the rest of the season then - as can still see him turning it round and us finishing lower mid table and then waiting til the end of the season for someone new

[SoccerHQ]

Rodgers that Leicester took from Celtic where he had less opposition than Gerard has at Rangers? I get the point, and accept he'd done well with Swansea and Liverpool, but Gerard might go on to do just as well.

For me Lange needs to identify a coach on an upward trajectory in Europe and go get him in. Simple. He's paid very well to do that too.

Denmark manager would be a good shout surely. They're one of the best teams in world football currently and they've handled the loss of Eriksen with complete ease.

Not sure what his club record is like though. He's the sort Brentford are probably putting feelers out for 2-3 years time if Thomas Franks moves on.

[cdbearsfan]

I've just started a game on football manager as Villa - I reckon a good season for me on there and I'll ping Purslow my cv

Apparently Sherwood got the gig by showing Lerner his Tetris high score.

[N'ZMAV]

I've just started a game on football manager as Villa - I reckon a good season for me on there and I'll ping Purslow my cv

Apparently Sherwood got the gig by showing Lerner his Tetris high score.

wonder what McLeish showed Lerner?

[ChicagoLion]

Winning stuff with Celtic or Rangers is almost meaningless and no basis for an appointment of a PL club with aspirations.
I hope we go for Potter based on where we are right now.

[SoccerHQ]

I've just started a game on football manager as Villa - I reckon a good season for me on there and I'll ping Purslow my cv

Apparently Sherwood got the gig by showing Lerner his Tetris high score.

wonder what McLeish showed Lerner?

His love letter from Fergie wasn't it?

[ChicagoLion]

I've just started a game on football manager as Villa - I reckon a good season for me on there and I'll ping Purslow my cv

Apparently Sherwood got the gig by showing Lerner his Tetris high score.

wonder what McLeish showed Lerner?

LSD

[BC Villain]

I've just started a game on football manager as Villa - I reckon a good season for me on there and I'll ping Purslow my cv

Apparently Sherwood got the gig by showing Lerner his Tetris high score.

wonder what McLeish showed Lerner?

Fergusons letter

[Abbeyfealeavfc]

I don’t really know the Ajax manager although I believe he’s won things. Appointing a foreign coach unless they are a top coach carries risks (language, settling in period, knowing the pl...)
Appointing Potter for “where we are right now” doesn’t sound aspirational.
Posters comparing Rodgers with Gerrard seem to have forgotten the former’s recent FA cup success as well as his pl experience.
For me it’s a no-brainer. If Dean goes we need to appoint someone with a managerial profile (not a playing profile) and we need to go as big as we can otherwise we’ll end up in a managerial merry
go-round again.

[Demitri_C]

Id love the ajax manager but lets be honest if he isnt interested in going spurs he is not coming here

[cdbearsfan]

I've just started a game on football manager as Villa - I reckon a good season for me on there and I'll ping Purslow my cv

Apparently Sherwood got the gig by showing Lerner his Tetris high score.

wonder what McLeish showed Lerner?

Hopefully not his Snake.

[curiousorange]

Quite honestly, the best manager for us right now is the one who will get the players fit. There's talent in this squad, but they can't put an hour in. What was it Terry said about O'Neill's Villa? Wait for 70 minutes and then beat them? Tactics are important, despite what Smith says, but in a side with no confidence they become more of a millstone than a help. That note thing was pathetic. Get the players competing, creating space, showing for the ball.

I realise after reading that back it makes it sound like I want Dyche or someone. Ideally you want a coach that goes from fitness freak to tactical genius.

[algy]

If the Villa release Smith from his role, hopefully we won’t be considering anybody like Terry (untried as a manager) or Gerrard (manager in a Micky mouse league). If that were the case Purslow needs to go. For a club with the stature of Aston Villa we need to bring in a high profile successful manager already at another club like we did when we brought Ron Atkinson in from Sheff Wed. We need to make a statement appointment, someone who has the personality and skills to carry the team from day 1. There can be no messing about with someone who is only finding their feet in management. For me we need someone like Rodgers and if it means f-cking off Leicester for a second time, so be it. We need to show and Purslow needs to show that we mean business.

Absolutely this. Don't get the clamour for Potter. People talk about statement signings in terms of players - I'd like a statement manager. Someone linked with the top jobs in the world (hence me being quite keen on the Ajax chap). Whoever it is, show them we can pump a good £100m in to the side over the summer (again), and a similar amount the following summer. Furnish their bank account with a big, fuck off pay cheque. But it has to be a top tier appointment, someone who has operated at Champions League level successfully.

[SoccerHQ]

If the Villa release Smith from his role, hopefully we won’t be considering anybody like Terry (untried as a manager) or Gerrard (manager in a Micky mouse league). If that were the case Purslow needs to go. For a club with the stature of Aston Villa we need to bring in a high profile successful manager already at another club like we did when we brought Ron Atkinson in from Sheff Wed. We need to make a statement appointment, someone who has the personality and skills to carry the team from day 1. There can be no messing about with someone who is only finding their feet in management. For me we need someone like Rodgers and if it means f-cking off Leicester for a second time, so be it. We need to show and Purslow needs to show that we mean business.

Absolutely this. Don't get the clamour for Potter. People talk about statement signings in terms of players - I'd like a statement manager. Someone linked with the top jobs in the world (hence me being quite keen on the Ajax chap). Whoever it is, show them we can pump a good £100m in to the side over the summer (again), and a similar amount the following summer. Furnish their bank account with a big, fuck off pay cheque. But it has to be a top tier appointment, someone who has operated at Champions League level successfully.

Perhaps Di Matteo fancies another go....

I do get what you're saying though.