Next Manager Speculation/Hopes

[N'ZMAV]

I've said this a couple of times to people who've asked me about who Villa might replace Gerrard with, but I'm tired of the selection in the corner shop, I want to go shopping in the hypermarket.

we keep shopping at Ali Express.

[Paul.S]

A proven manager will only come with the promise of a big budget. No way will we attract anyone decent if they are told they have to work with what we’ve got for the rest of the season and beyond. The issue is will the owners plough in another few hundred million to rectify some very poor manager and player appointments. They’ve been fantastic so far but they had a plan and it looked a decent one on paper but it’s all gone a bit pear shaped.

[Villa in Denmark]

To be fair it's one very poor managerial appointment.  Smith fulfilled his remit I think. Got us promoted and secured us in the Premier League.

[Rigadon]

To be fair it's one very poor managerial appointment.  Smith fulfilled his remit I think. Got us promoted and secured us in the Premier League.

Yep.  Smith was a good manager for us in the context of where we were when he joined v when he left, regardless of the circumstances (Grealish).  I wouldn't want him back, but you can't say he was a bad choice and didn't work out. 

[Toronto Villa]

To be fair it's one very poor managerial appointment.  Smith fulfilled his remit I think. Got us promoted and secured us in the Premier League.

Yeh I agree. Dean Smith very much was a success and probably ahead of time. That it fell apart wasn’t all on him but it happens. And I don’t think this appointment was entirely vanity. Gerrard had done good things at Rangers. No point rewriting history there. He was a young upcoming manager that had global appeal in markets we wanted to break into. The hope was he would grow in this role and become the next big thing. I can get all of that. That it’s not worked out won’t look good on Purslow but the best owners/chairmen everywhere have made bad hires.

[Clark W Griswold]

I read up a little on him yesterday. The conclusion for me was that it has to be him next. In answer to your question though, the season after he took them to the CL final they were sitting 14th in the November so they pulled the plug. Prematurely I would say, since he’d been there 5 years and pretty much been a huge success.

We need another one like Big Ron / MON, an experienced no fucking about big profile manager that you just know will improve us, and I think he’s the one.

Reading up on Poch? He managed in this country for 7 years so not like he's a Gallardo type?

We're more Southampton than Spurs but he did a fantastic job there aswell, made international players out of Lallana and Rickie Lambert and Jay Rodriquez would've got an England call up but did his ACL a week before squad was announced.

That's exactly what we need.

Well, obviously i knew a fair bit about him but in all honesty i haven't got a photographic memory of what this bloke did at Tottenham several years ago, or so and so at Chelsea 5 years before, or someone else at Arsenal around the same time. It was a revision based on knowing that he's a manager with a seriously good record and who is out of work.

Yes, he would be great wouldn't he?

[Paul.S]

1 very poor managerial appointment as Smith was a huge success for us. To get rid of him for an unproven option who has a name was a huge gamble. The trigger pulled too early on Smith for my liking, especially for someone who had very little managerial experience and isn’t as good a coach. But if the same standards are being placed on Gerrard as Smith then he’s got Sunday to put it right.

[murgsy]

Rumours that Poch is one of the candidates that may replace Allegri at Juve

[SoccerHQ]

Rumours that Poch is one of the candidates that may replace Allegri at Juve

Juve don't have the money apparently. Tuchel would surely be in frame for that job and Zidane aswell.

In last six months he's possibly been overlooked for Chelsea and Sevilla jobs, both sides in CL so I really do think he'd have to consider type of club like us rather than just wait years for CL club to decide they want him.

Or he just wants a years break from the game which is entirely possible to come back refreshed. Get the feeling we put the feelers out around the Man. City game and that's the response we got but you never know when people can change their mind and want to get back into the game.

[boozey182]

The Telegraph are reporting that we are 'making an ambitious attempt to convince Mauricio Pochettino to step back into management'. Percy, Matt Law and Sam Wallace all contributed to the article apparently, so there may be some truth to it.

This would go a long way to repairing the damage done over the last 11 months - I really hope we are this ambitious.

[Rigadon]

The Telegraph are reporting that we are 'making an ambitious attempt to convince Mauricio Pochettino to step back into management'. Percy, Matt Law and Sam Wallace all contributed to the article apparently, so there may be some truth to it.

This would go a long way to repairing the damage done over the last 11 months - I really hope we are this ambitious.

It's the only way the owners can show they mean business now.  Another punt or underwhelming manager and their 'project' will look dead in the water. 

[villadelph]

The Telegraph are reporting that we are 'making an ambitious attempt to convince Mauricio Pochettino to step back into management'. Percy, Matt Law and Sam Wallace all contributed to the article apparently, so there may be some truth to it.

This would go a long way to repairing the damage done over the last 11 months - I really hope we are this ambitious.

It's the only way the owners can show they mean business now.  Another punt or underwhelming manager and their 'project' will look dead in the water.

Its their big headline on the Sport page, even after a 'The Mighty Reds YNWA'/Citeh match.. hopefully there is some truth to it.

[levico]

If true it also signals an openness to further investment in the playing squad so it would be excellent news indeed.

[Clampy]

The Telegraph are reporting that we are 'making an ambitious attempt to convince Mauricio Pochettino to step back into management'. Percy, Matt Law and Sam Wallace all contributed to the article apparently, so there may be some truth to it.

This would go a long way to repairing the damage done over the last 11 months - I really hope we are this ambitious.

I think damage is a too strong a word. We just haven't progressed. It's not as if whoever the next manager is will need to overhaul it. We showed yesterday we can be a decent side on our day but we've not shown that anywhere near enough and that's obviously one of the problems.

[Ian.]

I really hope this is true and also really hope he accepts!