Next Manager Speculation and wishful thinking thread

[olaftab]

Mourinho is fucking it up regale with Roma so he could be available. Anyone?

[Richard E]

Mourinho is fucking it up regale with Roma so he could be available. Anyone?

The idea is about as appealing as hammering knitting needles through my eyeballs.

[The_ads]

I would rather have Dean Smith than any of the top 8 in the poll on here, or on Sky Bet.

I think we’ve really fucked this up.

Is all very well saying “Smith out” but surely you have to know who you can get instead, and be pretty confident they’re better? I think we’ve been very impatient with a good coach and a very decent man, who has a pretty bad run with injuries in our bad spell.

I have to ask this. How do you know we haven’t got someone lined up that matches your expectations? Your disappointment stems from reading a load of tabloid and/or Twitter clickbait

[Broadlee]

Anyone thought of Joachim Lowe? Would he fit the bill?

[Beard82]

I would rather have Dean Smith than any of the top 8 in the poll on here, or on Sky Bet.

I think we’ve really fucked this up.

Is all very well saying “Smith out” but surely you have to know who you can get instead, and be pretty confident they’re better? I think we’ve been very impatient with a good coach and a very decent man, who has a pretty bad run with injuries in our bad spell.

I have to ask this. How do you know we haven’t got someone lined up that matches your expectations? Your disappointment stems from reading a load of tabloid and/or Twitter clickbait

This is very true - all I would say, is they whoever they appoint needs to show this "continuous improvement" and get us a top-half finish, and continue to develop our players.  If they do then this will have been the correct decision, or at least a correct decision. 

If they don't, then I would expect other people to lose their job.  I think a lot has gone wrong over the last 4-5 months, and it's not all Dean's fault.  I expect these other people to be held to the same high standards that Dean has been.

[Behind Bluenose Lines]

Mourinho is fucking it up regale with Roma so he could be available. Anyone?

The idea is about as appealing as hammering knitting needles through my eyeballs.

It would be another media circus!

The Special Once (to quote Jason Cundy).

[AV82EC]

Have been reading this thread most of the day and being honest no-one fills me with a real "fucking hell that would be amazing" type vibe, I'm not sold on Fonseca, Favre would be an interesting one and Potter if we decided to stay British would be good if a little too similar to Dean but the other options are distinctly meh. 

[curiousorange]

After Gerrard won the title with Rangers, The Athletic did quite a good piece on the changes he'd made there, his intensity etc. It did, to be fair, sound like he'd implemented quite a lot.

However, I don't want Villa to be anybody's proving ground. If part of the reason Smith got the flick was because we blew a European spot last season, it would be entirely unfair on him to hire somebody who could find the spotlight on him back in English football too much to handle. I don't want anybody but someone that's managed at the highest level.

[Beard82]

Percy said the list would be ambitious.

None of the main ones on this alleged shortlist are ambitious

I'm hoping for a Danny Ings like annoucement

[KevinGage]

Mourinho is fucking it up regale with Roma so he could be available. Anyone?

I would.  Not sure he has the stuff to make CL qualification a gimmie in the top flight any more. But you'd back him to get a side organised (if dull) and guarantee mid table initially and then genuine push for Europe in a year or so.

It would be a few notches up from Smith reputation and experience-wise.

Which you couldn't really say about most of the favourites in that list.

[KRS]

I don’t want us to become another “project” and that includes a relatively new manager cutting his teeth or learning the ropes in the Premier League. Someone with a wealth of domestic and European football experience, tactically aware and respected in the game. I don’t know who fits the bill but I don’t think any mentioned so far meet that criteria.

[SoccerHQ]

Percy said the list would be ambitious.

None of the main ones on this alleged shortlist are ambitious

I'm hoping for a Danny Ings like annoucement

List does have people who've won stuff or finished high up in major leagues in fairness.

Trouble is we've appointed in last decade Houllier, McLeish and Di Matteo who all won significant trophies but if they're not the right fit for the squad it matters very little.

[Richard E]

Alf Ramsey anyone? Won the league with Ipswich and most successful England manager ever.He’s been out of football for a while but I reckon he’d fancy a crack at the Villa job.

[Sexual Ealing]

If not Favre (and I hope it is), we're going to have to pinch somebody from another club. Pochettino doesn't look happy at PSG (like I'd know), perhaps Purslow could smarm him in?

I am aware that there is zero chance of this happening.

[SoccerHQ]

If not Favre (and I hope it is), we're going to have to pinch somebody from another club. Pochettino doesn't look happy at PSG (like I'd know), perhaps Purslow could smarm him in?

I am aware that there is zero chance of this happening.

Could do worse then Emery considering he was about to jack in CL club for one at bottom of this league before changing his mind right at the last minute so he is open to offers and don't think he's signed a new deal there since.

Would actually make sense as we want to be in europa league sooner or later and he's a master at winning that competition, think he's won it 4 times in last 8 years or something daft and also got Arsenal to the final.