Next Manager Speculation and wishful thinking thread

[Demitri_C]

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

Leicester are better than us. Alot better and have been for years. Thats the sad reality.

Not going to happen

[Broadlee]

Martinez - a manager with arguably the best players in the world in his team and no trophy? Says it all. If Belgium had won something maybe, they have the skill to blow away any European team… but didn’t
Not for me,

Simon Jordan called out Ten Hag from Ajax, but whilst a good fit when you look at his philosophy re play etc. I’m not sure we could attract him.
Fonseca does fit the bill but are we attractive enough?
This has got to be a step up from Dean  - Gerrard, Lampard, Potter, they have qualities But it’s not a step up / it’s not the progressive move they talk about.

we can only wait and see and hope we have the progressive, intelligent and ambitious board to match their words.
 

[olaftab]

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 after a couple of transfer windows their best in the squad will be ours.

[Mister E]

"Gerrard has done well with Rangers"

Perrrrrlease - do not need reminding of the TSM. Ever.

[Demitri_C]

I think we all would want ten haag but there is no chance we could get him. If he isnt interested in spurs he wont come here.

I think he will wait for united job

[chrisw1]

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!

Yes, I absolutely believe Rogers wouldn't come to us.

[Clive W]

Percy saying that the short list will be “ambitious”

Make of that what you will

[Chris_Jephcott]

Hopefully not Joachim Low doing his scratch, sniff and lick though.

It’s a horrible image to have in my mind. And I can’t shake it either.

[Fred Crump]

If we really want to be considered a progressive, modern , forward thinking club, why don’t we consider Emma Hayes, the Chelsea women’s manager ? She always comes across as knowing her stuff as a pundit and her side are arguably the best women’s team around.
Go on Villa, how brave are you ?

[Rigadon]

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.

More of this please.

[Mister E]

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!

Yes, AVB ain't a batshit crazy option, actually.

[Jon Crofts]

I think we all would want ten haag but there is no chance we could get him. If he isnt interested in spurs he wont come here.

I think he will wait for united job

He'll have a wait then as apparently OGS is safe at United.

[Rory]

I enjoy some of the ambition being shown, but I don't think we should be disrespecting other clubs. If we are such a great opportunity, we shouldn't need to belittle Brighton, Leicester or anybody else.

Let's not act like Man Utd fans.

[Smithy]

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

I think he's got a bit lucky with a once-in-a-lifetime set of players with Belgium, which has got them where they are today. And he got that job almost immediately after being sacked by Everton for back-to-back 11th place league finishes.  I have no doubt he's played his part in Belgium's success, but they're ranked number one without having won anything, and I think even I could keep Belgium in the top 5 in the world given the quality of their squad.

I honestly can't remember enough about how his teams played to know what sort of manager he would be? Do his teams always play the same way? (Didn't the Everton fans protest against him towards the end?

[Pat Mustard]

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.

They've just spent £100 million on a new training ground that's possibly the best in Europe, and have just had a 10,000 increase to capacity approved - say what you like about Leicester, but at the moment they are ahead of us on and off the pitch.  That's not to say we couldn't achieve more, but would you swap that at the moment from a club that's just sacked the bloke who brought them back the bottom half of the Championship after losing 5 games in a row?