Next Manager Speculation/Hopes

[not3bad]

Likelihood of Poch to Villa discussed by punters.

https://tbrfootball.com/he-would-ornstein-says-manager-chelsea-reportedly-want-would-be-open-to-succeeding-gerrard-at-aston-villa/

[Sexual Ealing]

If we could get him then I really don't know why we wouldn't be stalking him until he signs. I'd want Lange sleeping in his underwear drawer.

[chrisw1]

We could, and probably should, have taken Potter when we got Gerrard.  We'll never know if it would have worked out but it would have been interesting to see how he got on.

If Gerrard is sacked I hope we just go all out for whichever of the two doesn't get the Chelsea gig.  Just make them a proposal they can't refuse both in terms of money and the 'project.'

[cdward]

These are some of the latest runners in the Chelsea race.
I would take any of them (except Roberto Martinez).
If Potter does go there, we should move for Poch', and sell him the project, or vice versa.
Graham Potter - 5/6
Mauricio Pochettino - 4/1
Brendan Rodgers - 5/1
Zinedine Zidane - 9/1
Diego Simeone - 16/1
Massimilano Allegri - 16/1
Roberto Martinez - 16/1
Thomas Frank 20/1

[Risso]

We could, and probably should, have taken Potter when we got Gerrard.  We'll never know if it would have worked out but it would have been interesting to see how he got on.

If Gerrard is sacked I hope we just go all out for whichever of the two doesn't get the Chelsea gig.  Just make them a proposal they can't refuse both in terms of money and the 'project.'

Brighton started off like a train last season in a similar fashion to this, with four wins out of 5. They then didn't win again for 12 matches. They then won in 2 in 3 by beating Brentford and Everton, before going on another shit run with 1 win in 12. Basically between the end of September and the start of April they won 3 games. In that stretch they took 21 points from 25 games. Their season was made to look good by an excellent start and finish, but for ⅔ of the season they were absolute gash.

[AV82EC]

We could, and probably should, have taken Potter when we got Gerrard.  We'll never know if it would have worked out but it would have been interesting to see how he got on.

If Gerrard is sacked I hope we just go all out for whichever of the two doesn't get the Chelsea gig.  Just make them a proposal they can't refuse both in terms of money and the 'project.'

Brighton started off like a train last season in a similar fashion to this, with four wins out of 5. They then didn't win again for 12 matches. They then won in 2 in 3 by beating Brentford and Everton, before going on another shit run with 1 win in 12. Basically between the end of September and the start of April they won 3 games. In that stretch they took 21 points from 25 games. Their season was made to look good by an excellent start and finish, but for ⅔ of the season they were absolute gash.

Yep don’t get the hype with them, we dispatched them pretty comfortably in both games and to be honest they play a lot of nice possession football with absolutely fuck all end product.

[eamonn]

Likelihood of Poch to Villa discussed by punters.

https://tbrfootball.com/he-would-ornstein-says-manager-chelsea-reportedly-want-would-be-open-to-succeeding-gerrard-at-aston-villa/

Aww, I like Ornstein now. He even uses the "Villa have won the European Cup" line that I think most Villa fans (excluding some of our more "obvious" brethren) wince a little about at this stage.

[German James]

I'm a big fan of Graham Potter and what he does at Brighton, but keeping a small club ticking over and occasionally punching above its weight is what made us go for poor Paul Lambert. There's nothing to say Potter's got another gear. We should at last be looking at a manager with proven quality or we'll never get off this merry-go-round. Also, I genuinely like Potter too much to see him fail and God knows there have been enough ruined managers at Villa since MON sashayed out.

[manic-road]

We could, and probably should, have taken Potter when we got Gerrard.  We'll never know if it would have worked out but it would have been interesting to see how he got on.

If Gerrard is sacked I hope we just go all out for whichever of the two doesn't get the Chelsea gig.  Just make them a proposal they can't refuse both in terms of money and the 'project.'

Brighton started off like a train last season in a similar fashion to this, with four wins out of 5. They then didn't win again for 12 matches. They then won in 2 in 3 by beating Brentford and Everton, before going on another shit run with 1 win in 12. Basically between the end of September and the start of April they won 3 games. In that stretch they took 21 points from 25 games. Their season was made to look good by an excellent start and finish, but for ⅔ of the season they were absolute gash.

Absolute gash with hardly any spend only finishing ninth in the table last season, yeah terrible.

[PeterWithesShin]

Whether he can do it at a higher is the big question, but he's done well at Brighton while making a profit and what he did with Ostersunds is on a par with what SGT did with Watford. And as soon he left they went backwards.

[Risso]

We could, and probably should, have taken Potter when we got Gerrard.  We'll never know if it would have worked out but it would have been interesting to see how he got on.

If Gerrard is sacked I hope we just go all out for whichever of the two doesn't get the Chelsea gig.  Just make them a proposal they can't refuse both in terms of money and the 'project.'

Brighton started off like a train last season in a similar fashion to this, with four wins out of 5. They then didn't win again for 12 matches. They then won in 2 in 3 by beating Brentford and Everton, before going on another shit run with 1 win in 12. Basically between the end of September and the start of April they won 3 games. In that stretch they took 21 points from 25 games. Their season was made to look good by an excellent start and finish, but for ⅔ of the season they were absolute gash.

Absolute gash with hardly any spend only finishing ninth in the table last season, yeah terrible.

Hardly any spend? Try £100m over two years. And I didn't say their final position was rubbish, I said their form for the 25 games sequence when they won 3 games was. How would you describe it?

[German James]

The commentators on here are mostly of one mind...

[manic-road]

Whether he can do it at a higher is the big question, but he's done well at Brighton while making a profit and what he did with Ostersunds is on a par with what SGT did with Watford. And as soon he left they went backwards.

Whether he can do it at a higher is the big question, but he's done well at Brighton while making a profit and what he did with Ostersunds is on a par with what SGT did with Watford. And as soon he left they went backwards.

Agreed, I was hoping we would find out if he could perform at a bigger club at Villa. Every player seems well drilled and I have seen Brighton play both straight through the middle of Villa or down the wings. On paper, Villa man to man have a better team than Brighton and if they had bought a decent striker a couple of years ago instead of playing Maupay and Welbeck they would have likely gained more points.

[Risso]

The commentators on here are mostly of one mind...

"But his brand of attacking and tactically flexible football has brought him many admirers in the game."

Potter's Brighton scored 19 goals at home last season, lower than everybody except the bottom three and Leeds. At one point they scored 1 goal in 7 games.

[manic-road]

We could, and probably should, have taken Potter when we got Gerrard.  We'll never know if it would have worked out but it would have been interesting to see how he got on.

If Gerrard is sacked I hope we just go all out for whichever of the two doesn't get the Chelsea gig.  Just make them a proposal they can't refuse both in terms of money and the 'project.'

Brighton started off like a train last season in a similar fashion to this, with four wins out of 5. They then didn't win again for 12 matches. They then won in 2 in 3 by beating Brentford and Everton, before going on another shit run with 1 win in 12. Basically between the end of September and the start of April they won 3 games. In that stretch they took 21 points from 25 games. Their season was made to look good by an excellent start and finish, but for ⅔ of the season they were absolute gash.

Absolute gash with hardly any spend only finishing ninth in the table last season, yeah terrible.

Hardly any spend? Try £100m over two years. And I didn't say their final position was rubbish, I said their form for the 25 games sequence when they won 3 games was. How would you describe it?

Spent a £100m, and how much did they get back in transfer fees? Ben White alone bought in plenty.