Next Manager Speculation/Hopes

[clash city rocker]

I'd tell the players we'll play 4-4-2 on Sunday, do a few rondos, a bit of 5 a side and then go for a few pints after in the Dog & Doublet.

I reckon we'd look miles better than last night.

You forgot the bit about rolling their sleeves up

[LeeB]

Dave Woodhall would get my vote as new manager. He eats, sleeps and drinks Aston Villa and has a great insight into every match we play.

With the backing and ideas of the H & V posters, Villa might head in the right direction.

Management by fan based social media. In this crazy, ever evolving world we live in, you just never know.

We desperately need to spend money and you want Dave Woodhall?

Would make Doug look like Viv Nicholsen

[frank black]

Would have thought they would have kept McAllister and Critchley on until a successor was found. Unless they've already got someone lined up.

Yeah, I think the mass binnings this morning suggests they've got someone lined up already.

I suspect it’s just an out with the cause of our problems, anyone connected to Gerrard. I dont see it as anything but this

[Brazilian Villain]

My gut feel is that it will be Dyche.

Same here, and I think he would do better than many people expect. However I would like it to be a 'statement' appointment like Poch as if it's Dyche there will be toxicity in the air (aimed at him, Purslow and the owners) before he's even managed a game.

[john2710]

We need to break the mould of getting promising or up & coming manager's and get the real thing.
It's the same with the players, buying the best players from the championship or the equivalent gets you the bottom half of the premier league.

If we stick with the way we've done things over the last 12 years we're always at risk of it failing or underperforming. If we're serious about being a top 8 club, we need a top 8 manager. Not taking a punt on someone who's done well at a lesser club.

Sadly I doubt Pochettino or Tuchel will be interested.
Bielsa would be interesting, either brilliant or a disaster.

[hilts_coolerking]

Beale and Frank would just be more of the same: asking a guy with no experience of managing a big Premier League club to try to get it into Europe, and not even from a great starting position.  We don't just need someone better than Gerrard, we need someone miles better than him, and with considerably more experience than Beale and Frank.  Beale has 16 matches of managerial experience, none of them in the PL.  It's insanity to even consider him. 

[tomd2103]

It has to be someone who makes people take us seriously

Anything less and people will stop believing any of the ambition talk

Last time we could have got away with appointing a Frank type person but we spun the wheel on Steven and now we can’t show anything less than absolute ambition

I agree with this. It needs someone who's done something of note, that isn't avoiding relegation.

re Frank - I don't think taking another PL teams highly regarded manager when they're doing well is any sort of Mickey Mouse apppointment.  If he was managing in Germany or Spain and achived what he has for a small club people would be calling it a very astute appointment.  I think the familiarity makes people overlook just what a fantastic job he has done and is doing there.

We've seen this kind of appointment before.  Yes, Frank is doing well at Brentford, but doing well for Brentford is finishing mid-table.  That is all he has achieved so far and although it's obviously better than where we currently are, it would just smack of another Paul Lambert type of appointment.

[Goldenballs]

Please no to Dyche either, 4-4-2 dinosaur (from memory)

[Brazilian Villain]

Bielsa would be interesting, either brilliant or a disaster.

Doubt he'd come anyway as he'd probably want to 'stay classy' and not manage against Leeds.
https://www.leeds-live.co.uk/sport/leeds-united/former-leeds-united-boss-marcelo-25291392

[Beard82]

I think they need someone who shows we are really serious.

The last appointment has set us back at least two years and we cant afford any further setbacks

[pauliewalnuts]

If they appointed Dyche, that would be it for me, I'd find something else to waste all my time and emotion on.

Would be the ultimate sign we'd given up.

[Monty]

Evening Standard reporting with melodramatic confidence that Poch would say no.

[Stinkin_Thinkin]

Poch or Tuchel for me. Anyone else on the list I can see the same thing happening again, new manager bounce, players get comfy, results start to slip, running stats drop off a cliff, suddenly its October 2023 and we're looking for a new manager again.
I don't know why I believe Poch or Tuchel would be different I just do, maybe they'd complete the usual Villa manager 3 year lifecycle instead?

[SamTheMouse]

It's going to be Dyche isn't it. I've got a horrible feeling.

[aj2k77]

How would you spin the aim of Europe and a 50,000 ground with Dyche as manager? You couldn't, it would be taking people for fools and I'd take any further spiel from the club as bollocks and not buy in to it anymore.