Next Manager Speculation/Hopes

[Londonvilla]

I don't like 343, but we have the players to make it work

[TonyD]

Rodgers is a blast from the past. I wanted us to appoint him as manager when we then appointed Lambert.

Exactly. No to him and Dyche. 
Emery or Ruben please. 

[TonyD]

Brendan Rodgers is a manager in decline, the opposite of what we need.  It would be such a poor, unimagainative choice.

100%

[TonyD]

Amorim would be too risky. He’s very similar to Gerrard. Done well in an inferior league but untested in the PL.

Gerrard was a risk because he was shit. 
We have seen some great Portuguese managers and he is very highly regarded there.
There in no real comparison.

[Dave P]

I don't like 343, but we have the players to make it work

Three at the back is absolutely fine if it is your system and philosophy. The issue last year when smith was trying it was the desperation of changing our system to it.

[Toronto Villa]

In decline? He’s 49 years old. He is having his first really bad year in a long time. He won the FA cup recently. How’s that decline?

[hilts_coolerking]

In decline? He’s 49 years old. He is having his first really bad year in a long time. He won the FA cup recently. How’s that decline?

To me at any rate he just has the air of yesterday's man about him, stale, past his best.  He's not old but I don't think he'll get another crack at a Liverpool level job so he'll potter around mid- to lower table.  I think we can and should be looking elsewhere.

[Sexual Ealing]

In decline? He’s 49 years old. He is having his first really bad year in a long time. He won the FA cup recently. How’s that decline?

It isn't.

[RamboandBruno]

Purslow hasn’t worked with Rodgers.

So what do i know. Dont actually mind Rodgers too much but like something a bit different

[enigma]

In decline? He’s 49 years old. He is having his first really bad year in a long time. He won the FA cup recently. How’s that decline?

Agreed. Pushing for the top four for a couple of years and a cup win. I'd love a bit of that decline.

However, you kind of have to accept that his methods only seem to work for a couple of years. I've no real problem with that as managers are rarely long term these days anyway.

[enigma]

Wouldn't mind Amorim either but not if we have to pay £30m. I'm sure that couold be negotiated down though.

[Toronto Villa]

In decline? He’s 49 years old. He is having his first really bad year in a long time. He won the FA cup recently. How’s that decline?

To me at any rate he just has the air of yesterday's man about him, stale, past his best.  He's not old but I don't think he'll get another crack at a Liverpool level job so he'll potter around mid- to lower table.  I think we can and should be looking elsewhere.

We are Aston Villa in 2022. Not the version we all have wonderful memories of. We are a team struggling to figure out what we are having fucked around the lower part of the PL and been in the second division for the past decade. Turning our nose up at a manager who hasn’t had anything but success compared to that is a little nuts. I used the David Moyes example earlier as someone who is not only much older, but learned a lot along the way and now manages a West Ham side operating consistently where we want to be. Rodgers is much younger and has loads left in the tank.

[OCD]

How expensive is it to keep changing managers, moving on players they don't like and bringing in players the next manager might not like.

If he's the right candidate, negotiate and settle on a fee. They paid 10m to bring him in so you would expect there to be some profit on that.

[Monty]

I wouldn't rule out Rodgers getting back towards the top, but he strikes me as a man in need of a break.

[Rigadon]

I'd never heard of Amorim the day before yesterday.  I have no idea at all about how good or risky him being appointed would be.  But paying £30m to find out seems steep.  That said, it'd be worth every single penny if he was the real deal.  How many of the 39 posters who want hi above anybody else on the list are familiar with him?  How much of a risk (say in comparison with Gerrard) would it be?

Rogers has been / is a good coach.  I've thought it will be him for weeks.  He wouldn't be a disaster and would be an improvement on Gerrard, but it would lead me to think we are still in the 'transition' phase of our 'project' rather than a full blown push, and I would also seriously question whether this is a project that is seriously about CL qualification and wining things again.  I'm struggling not to be a bit pissed off with that thought.

Whoever it is I'll get behind.  Execpt maybe Sean Dyche.