Next Manager Speculation/Hopes

[Villan82]

Why is it that every time I want a manager out, every other club's manager looks like a great option. Then, as soon as we sack our manager, the list of replacements emerges and suddenly the same names look a lot less appealing?

Happens me every single time!

[olaftab]

here is a leftfield suggestion....I would fancy getting V.Kompany from Burnley

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The Doc

NO FORMERLY GOOD PLAYERS.

Unless Johann Cruyff turns up miraculously. 

[ozzjim]

Why is it that every time I want a manager out, every other club's manager looks like a great option. Then, as soon as we sack our manager, the list of replacements emerges and suddenly the same names look a lot less appealing?

Happens me every single time!

Haha so true.

[paul_e]

"Amorim's team use interchanging movements..."

So did Gerrard, to be fair. Between 60 and 70 minutes, every game, one of Buendia or Coutinho makes a movement to the bench and the other interchanges with him.

Many years ago I suggested a "rotating diamond" in midfield and was widely derided as a parvenu, thimble rigger and purveyor of prolix.

The idea of a 343 diamond and rotating is slightly misleading. How you'd implement that is more a 3331 but where the middle 3s are quite fluid with players fitting into whichever spot they're nearest to (within reason), it's a bit like extending zonal marking to open play and making sure you always have a passing option available in each zone.

[PeterWithesShin]

We are in for Kompany. Here is an exclusive photo of him arriving at Brum airport for his interview

[Goldenballs]

Emery has a decent CV but was a disaster at Arsenal really. Would be a brave PL club to bring him back in.

He went on a 22 game unbeaten run. I don't recall him being a disaster, although I don't pay too much attention to Arsenal.

[Sexual Ealing]

Emery has a decent CV but was a disaster at Arsenal really. Would be a brave PL club to bring him back in.

He finished fifth, which as well as Arsenal have done for years. Hardly a disaster.

[frank black]

I don’t care, just get it right this time please.

I’m sure I’ll be underwhelmed initially, then hopefully pleasantly surprised. It certainly won’t be a O’Neil OMG moment, which was the last time I was excited by a new manager.

[cdbearsfan]

We are in for Kompany. Here is an exclusive photo of him arriving at Brum airport for his interview

We've covered this before, but it always annoyed me that he was never given the number two shirt. Also, any club that has a played called Jackson and doesn't give him the number five should be automatically relegated.

[Brend'Watkins]

"Amorim's team use interchanging movements..."

He wouldn't enjoy working with our midfielders much.

Once he’d overcome the mindset of interchangeable misplaced passes he might.

[ASHTONVILLA]

Hoping it will be Poch/Tuchel/Emery

Happy with Rogers

Like the sound of Amorim

Voted Dyche - its Villa and we are more than capable of screwing it up and appointing him.

[Hookeysmith]

Emery has a decent CV but was a disaster at Arsenal really. Would be a brave PL club to bring him back in.

He finished fifth, which as well as Arsenal have done for years. Hardly a disaster.

And IIRC had to deal with some right wankers such as Ozil and Abamuyang (sp)

[ozzjim]

Trouble is.... Rodgers, Poch, Emery, Anorim... They are good because they are are tactically astute and like to attack. Dyche is so far from them that it is back to Martinez vs Mcleish.

[Scott Nielsen]

Is it who we want or who we think it will be?  I don't want people to think I'm nuts when I vote for Dyche...

Seems to be a fair few calls for Dyche by Villa fans. As justification they like to highlight his tactical acumen. I can't speak to it myself because it was too painful to watch Burnely but this video is being bandied about:

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[trinityoap]

I always get these things wrong so for all our sakes I have voted Dyche.