Next Manager Speculation/Hopes

[PeterWithe]

I also don’t get the ‘he hasn’t managed in England before’ stuff, neither had some of the best managers ever. Until they did.

[hilts_coolerking]

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.

I think there are better options available.  I'd be disappointed if we ended up with Rodgers.

[PeterWithe]

And, I’m pretty sure I read that to get your license to manage in Germany you have to have done 4x as many hours as you do over here, Italy also has a much higher threshold for qualification to manage at the top level. Sounds like Portugal may be similar.

[Toronto Villa]

My concern with Amorin, and I fully concede I could be wrong like on many things, is we are asking this up and coming coach/manager to rescue us mid season. In a league he’s never operated in with a schedule that’s not easy. It would be better to get in someone like him in the summer but I realize things don’t work that way. I know it’s not the same, and things are not remotely as bad, but many thought Remi Garde could replicate what he did at OL with us. But it was nothing but a disaster. I want to feel a little safer this season with a manager who has the credentials and is still at an age with a lot of years in front of him.

[jwarry]

Can we poach Brighton’s manager?

[luke95]

I think Rodgers is a perfect fit.
We are currently a bottom half premier side, hed get us top half pushing for top 6 in 2 of 3 years then wed be in far better postion to go for the like of Potch.

[john e]

People keep using Garde as a warning for a risky type foreign manager given the biggest poison chalice of all times and wasn’t up to it

Rodger’s would be yet another British manager so i give you Mcliesh Lambert Black Sherwood Bruce Gerrard

If we want to go round in circles appoint another British manager now that Potters gone the rest are all shite
and on we go round and round

[Three Spires Villa]

I think Rodgers is a perfect fit.
We are currently a bottom half premier side, hed get us top half pushing for top 6 in 2 of 3 years then wed be in far better postion to go for the like of Potch.

Yes I think that’s true.

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

My concern with Amorin, and I fully concede I could be wrong like on many things, is we are asking this up and coming coach/manager to rescue us mid season. In a league he’s never operated in with a schedule that’s not easy.

Rescuing? We’re hardly marooned at the bottom of the league.
Whether or not people think the players are a rag tag bunch who have no right to be stepping out on a premiership pitch they’re a whole lot better than what they’ve showed this season. I’m sure most managers worth their salt could get better performance out of most of them, playing with some coherent tactics would be a start.
Any manager wouldn’t be dropped in it they’d have a mini pre season to assess and work things out, then a transfer window after it. If there was any year to change mid season and feel pretty confident about it this is the season imo.

[PaulWinch again]

Yes indeed this squad, even with injuries, should be mid table at worst.

[Dazvillain]

Disappointed were potentially thinking of hiring someone with no premier league knowledge . We’ve done it many times before without great success.
We are Aston Villa, my Aston Villa, our Aston Villa, where is our ambition in sorting this out ?
I want to be smiling about this appointment, not feeling hopeful

[Mossie Hennebry]

I'm 12 years older than this Ruben chap. I have nothing else to add.

[RamboandBruno]

My concern with Amorin, and I fully concede I could be wrong like on many things, is we are asking this up and coming coach/manager to rescue us mid season. In a league he’s never operated in with a schedule that’s not easy.

Rescuing? We’re hardly marooned at the bottom of the league.
Whether or not people think the players are a rag tag bunch who have no right to be stepping out on a premiership pitch they’re a whole lot better than what they’ve showed this season. I’m sure most managers worth their salt could get better performance out of most of them, playing with some coherent tactics would be a start.
Any manager wouldn’t be dropped in it they’d have a mini pre season to assess and work things out, then a transfer window after it. If there was any year to change mid season and feel pretty confident about it this is the season imo.

This is a really good point, the world cup is another pre season, especially for clubs with very few players playing in the WC. I knew nothing about this Amorin chap before yesterday, and there is a bit of the shiny new thing element with me, but after the dourness of the last year, i just want something a bit shiny and new to be honest.

[Beard82]

I think they will go for a wow - as I think CP know's well be calling for him soon.

I think Rogers would do a good job - I wish we had thrown money at them last year and got him then.  As I think now it would feel much less ambitious then it did then.

Broadly I think:

over-whelmed - Poch, Tuchel, any of the managers were clearly not going to get
whelmed - Rogers, this Amorim guy (i think most of the world would say hes amazing - but I guess worry its another Gerrard, Garde thing and I know nothing about it)
under-whelmed - Frank, Beale
Convinced we have given up - Dyche

[Richard E]

I’ve thought for ages that Rodgers would be our manager before Christmas.