Next Manager Speculation and wishful thinking thread

[algy]

One thing, above all else, is we need to learn from Tottenham and make sure, at least publicly, we get our first choice manager. Once we start offering and being turned down, we are dead in the water. How you do this when going after managers already in a job, asking permission to talk to them then the obvious leaks, I don't know.

Living locally, I can tell you the Brighton fans have no expectations that he will leave in what they see as a sideways move. Do we really want a manager who would do the dirty on an incumbent club?

They think Brighton to Aston Villa is a sideways move? We all love our own clubs equally but that is straight up delusional.

Our last 5 seasons, if they happened to them  - 2 Championship playoff finals, Premier league survival, then last season what would represent their highest ever league position - would be one of the high points, if not *the* high water mark, in their club's entire history.

Equally, we've sacked 3 managers for underperforming.  And it includes our second worst period ever.

So we're not really on the same level, are we Brighton?

[sickbeggar]

Never really got Martinez. Did okay at Wigan but I never thought they were an entertaining side.

[KRS]

He turned us down before, he can fuck off.

Wasn’t that story just media bullshit because he was never actually approached or had an interview but it became truth because it was wrongly repeated so many times…or did we actually approach him and he turned down the option to have an interview?

[Ad@m]

Controversial I know but I'd go and get Rodgers from Leicester.

He has done everything he can at Leicester, and if he can get that shower up and around the European places, he'd have no trouble doing that with us.

You think that’s realistic? Why not Pep?

Come on folks we can’t just say “Let’s go and get xxxx” it’s not as simple as that.

Jesus! We're Aston Villa and have gazillionaire owners.

Pep could walk into any job on the planet but you seriously think Rodgers, overachieving and bumbling around the top half of the Prem at Leicester wouldn't come to us?!

We need to show some fucking ambition!

[LeeB]

Fuck these seaside town clowns that consider themselves more than just a retirement home for knackered old footballers and dodgy managers that can't read but can conjure up elaborate tax avoidance schemes. Fuck all of them.

[Demitri_C]

I think mancini would be more realistic than Rodgers and even he would be hard.

No chance in hell rodgers would leave them for us

[cdbearsfan]

He turned us down before, he can fuck off.

Wasn’t that story just media bullshit because he was never actually approached or had an interview but it became truth because it was wrongly repeated so many times…or did we actually approach him and he turned down the option to have an interview?

The whole thing felt to me like Dave Whelan desperately trying to get himself in the paper. No idea if we spoke to Martinez though I can understand why a manager would have turned us down at that point.

"Do you fancy the Villa job? We have just avoided relegation, if we ever get a decent player we will sell him and you won't get any money to buy anyone. Oh, because of our history we still expect to finish top six".

Not the most tempting, if we are being honest.

I'd hope our board would be more persuasive these days.

[ozzjim]

Martinez is a mythical blagger. Don't want him anywhere near the place. I would sooner have Gerrard.

[LeeB]

It's fucking Leicester mate. We did it before, and if we're serious we could do it again.

[ozzjim]

It's fucking Leicester mate. We did it before, and if we're serious we could do it again.

Their squad is much better than ours though.

[Ad@m]

It's fucking Leicester mate. We did it before, and if we're serious we could do it again.

Their squad is much better than ours though.

And 7 years ago they were a solid Championship club having spent the last decade there or lower.

Squads change quickly, but they've got a shitter ground, shitter training facilities, shitter owners, etc, etc. Everything is ready at the Villa to go way beyond what he can achieve at Leicester.

[Chris_Jephcott]

I can’t get the image of Joachim Low doing a scratch and sniff out of my mind.

[caster troy]

Villas-Boas is an interesting one. He must be on a very short list of currently unemployed managers who have been reasonably successful at the top level. This comment from a post-Marseille article caught my interest

"He managed to forge such a strong team mentality that even when they were not playing well, they would win games."

If there is one thing we do not do, it is that!

[olaftab]

Sky sports saying martinez is very high on the list.  Wouldnt be the worst appointment and would have some big contacts in belgium.

But from what i remember in his time in england he coulsnt setup a back four to save his life.  Doesnt bode well when you see how we currently defend

And he has totally wasted the best generation of footballers to emerge in any one country for about 50 years.

[LeeB]

It's fucking Leicester mate. We did it before, and if we're serious we could do it again.

Their squad is much better than ours though.

It is, but what's left for him now? He's a vain fucker, I think with the right conditions he'd take it. Walking out a Villa Park as the chief is a damn sight different to that poxy little soulless bowl.