Next Manager Speculation/Hopes

[paul_e]

The big difference is that Amorim is the one who does the coaching, rather than his assistant who can be tempted away and set us back.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I’ve no idea how good he is or if he’s just the latest fad, Portugal does produce a fair amount of decent coaches/managers though.

Remember when Spain were the best team in the world and we managed to sign the only Spanish footballer who couldn’t trap a football.

Remember when we signed Wesley for £22m?

The only Brazilian male on the planet with no natural ability with a football.

To be fair he does have one leg shorter than the other by at least a foot.

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

I’ve no idea how good he is or if he’s just the latest fad, Portugal does produce a fair amount of decent coaches/managers though.

Remember when Spain were the best team in the world and we managed to sign the only Spanish footballer who couldn’t trap a football.

Remember when we signed Wesley for £22m?

The only Brazilian male on the planet with no natural ability with a football.

To be fair he does have one leg shorter than the other by at least a foot.

Never did Garrincha any harm. I bet that’s the first time those two have been thought about in the same sentence.

[john2710]

From the outside we are, at best, a mid-table team. Currently we're not even that. Nobody of serious quality or standing will entertain joining us, unless they want to end their career.

Maybe Emery, but he's rebuilt his reputation in Spain & why come here?

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

A managers ego says they can be the ones to take us where we want to go and become legends in the process….they may also get a few quid to top up their bank balance.
TBF Emery has done quite a bit and may feel he has less to lose.
It’s set up for Poch perfectly but he obviously doesn’t think it’s worth the risk of tainting his reputation although you would think he would back himself, I can’t see him going to a super club anytime soon. He’ll regret turning us down if he has.

[Toronto Villa]

From the outside we are, at best, a mid-table team. Currently we're not even that. Nobody of serious quality or standing will entertain joining us, unless they want to end their career.

Maybe Emery, but he's rebuilt his reputation in Spain & why come here?

Everton appointed Carlo Ancelotti in December 2019 sitting 16th in the table.

We are a big club with a load of potential, massive fan base and wealthy owners in the most talked about and marketed league in the world. There is no reason we cannot get someone of very decent reputation. Sometimes we really do talk ourselves down.

[Tokyo Sexwhale]

I never really studied Emery until tonight. Wow, he has quite a phenomenal CV. What went wrong at Arsenal?

He'd be a very, very good appointment here.

Seems to do well with clubs with "villa" in the name.

[tomd2103]

I'm not saying for a second I want Dyche, but...isn't there a possibility that he was cutting his cloth accordingly at Burnley, and wouldn't necessarily play the same way given greater resources?

The McLeish argument. That went well.

The McLeish appointment will always be inexplicable and easily the worst decision in my 35 years watching the Villa.

[Steve67]

Since 1980 we have got it right just four times. Big Ron, Brian Little, SGT and MON. Perhaps a 5th with Dean?  The other ones have been various shades of medium to lower end shite.  Purslow seems to have a track record of appointing wtf people. I hope to hell he proves me wrong this time.

[cdbearsfan]

Tony Barton?

[eamonn]

I never really studied Emery until tonight. Wow, he has quite a phenomenal CV. What went wrong at Arsenal?

He'd be a very, very good appointment here.

Seems to do well with clubs with "villa" in the name.

Time to come to the real Villa.

[Axl Rose]

Who voted for Southgate?

[Scott Nielsen]

A managers ego says they can be the ones to take us where we want to go and become legends in the process….they may also get a few quid to top up their bank balance.

I don't think that is their thought process. Once you have reached a certain 'level', you are unlikely to start over by going back to where you were ten or fifteen years ago. I certainly wouldn't in my own career. Even if I'd be, comparatively, very well renumerated for doing so, it is unlikely it would be more than what I make in my current position. So why take on the extra risk, extra stress, extra hours that a fixer-project means that other people would likely also interpret as a downgrade, which could potentially hurt my future interests. Money is an important parameter but, again, at that level probably not the deciding factor. The dedicing factor I believe is career management.

This changes, I think, once a manager has had repeated lack of success, e.g. someone like Mourinho but I still think there's a reluctance to take on a project at that stage of their career. We need to find someone that is less proven but hungry which means it becomes riskier.

Ancelottis is, rightly, often brought up as evidence it can happen but I suspect it keeps being brought up because it was so unusual.

[nick harper]

I reckon Nuno will be on Purslow’s long list if the preferred options don’t work out. He built a decent side at Wolves, and qualified for Europe, before it petered out after losing Jimenez to that bad injury.

[Joe S]

Who voted for Southgate?

Also Dyce and Bruce have a "want" vote ?