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What if the other 2 people are Klinsman and AVB? I'd take any of them over Ole. Why we so over the top in regards to getting Ole? A Manure love-child? You all went mad when Houllier acknowledged the Liverpool fans when he went back there! Do you think he is going to win the league with us because he did with a Norwegian team with some hefty financial backing? Is there a Man City, Chelsea, Man Utd in the Norwegian league?

I think a reality check is needed instead of masturbating over a video documentary in which he comes across as a nice bloke.

Passing football? Ever watched them? They play counter-attacking football like Man Utd and us (bar Houllier's reign) have been playing for years!

well AVB didn't exactly do a great job at chelsea with a good squad, piss poor man management but with a difficult group of players. klinnsman i don't really see whatthe fuss is abotu with him to be honest.

OGS doesn't seem like the type of person to be disrespectfull to the club and i doubt anyone will be foolish enough to expect him to be anything other than complimentary to a club where he spent 15 years, won loads of titles and a champs league will they?

that documentary leaves you with more than the impression that he's a nice bloke! i doubt i'll be masturbating about it anytime soon though, i likes me some titties...

bloody hell, that bbc article has totally changed it's bias, probably after a more complete translation of the PC. much more happy reading now.

looks like the ball is firmly in randy's court now. come on, get him signed.

everyone seen this i spose?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18126718

can't be arsed to read the last 10 pages

any reason we shoudl think that this isn't the terrible news it sounds like it is?

perry bar?

http://fotball.rbnett.no/eliteserien/article237145.ece

apparently they did pull out because he went over here for talks, jesus christ what a over reaction....

apparently they thought he was illoyal due to the the fact that their league already had started, and that it became so open in the news that he was here for talks. and Ole has previously hinted publicly that he wasnt pleased with the small investment in the club.

so they left the club. immediatley.... and now molde is in some deep shit

sooo, in a round abotu sort of way thetrees has brought about the collapse of the norwegian champions

good work son! you are my soljskaer, my only soljskaer...

Anyway I would much rather Klinnsmann, Rijkaard, AVB, Ranieri, Benitez, or someone along these lines come in and bring a completely new approach to the way we play.

yeah i'd like messi, ronaldo, bale, modric, rooney, neymar, aguero and kompany to come and play for us, or someone along these lines come in and bring a completely new approach to the way we play!

Bookies top 5 are;

1. Solsksjaer

2. Paul Lambert

3. Roberto Martinez

4. Marcelo Bielsa

5. Nigel Adkins

Would be very happy with any of them to be honest, they are all fairly young, forward thinking managers, very much part of the new breed of manager around at the moment and they would make me excited for the new season.

We want good football first and foremost, the rest will follow.

bielsa would give us the best football out of that lot i reckon. oldest though and the club have said young. would love bielsa at villa.

OGS is not the sort of character you want in the trenches with you when you're in a relegation scrap, which lets face it, is a distinct possibility again next season if the transfer budget is £8m

Would much prefer Ranieri

wtf???

yeah he showed throughout his playign career that he had no character whatsoever. (sarcasm)

how do you know our budget is £8m???

again the club have said "YOUNG", "ENTHUSIASTIC", "VIBRANT"

claudio ranieri is not young or vibrant. he is still enthusiastic i'll give you that but he's looking for his last chance, we're looking for someone on the up!

I would take Poyet, Steve Clarke & Commolli as a management team.

commolli? the guy who negotiated 35 mill for Carroll? the guy who gave us 20mill for Downing? what has he ever done to justify appearing on peoples wish lists??

tottingham?

liverpool will not affect us, they will be after the capello bracket of manager. we aren't.

platty is prob learning a lot from manicini as it goes. might make a manager one day, not now though!

i think the plop will be in for capello now, give him a budget and he'd prob get them back in the CL mix. doubt they'd be in for lambert, not this time round anyway.

will no doubt put the cat amongst the pidgeons with our board though, they shoudl sort something out sharpish.

The Chairman publically announced at the player of the year dinner last night that an additional £10mill on top of the playing budget he received last year, which would probably give him £30million to spend.

that's very solid backing, another factor here is that he's been part of a long term project for a while, and after being so successfull why wouldn't he want to try and go one step further? £30m spent wisely might even get you lot in europe next year. that would be amazing for ncfc, and for lambert's career it would mean he'd be on the map for big clubs all over europe.

the choice he has is between trying to take ncfc as far as possible or getting backed at villa park and taking on a good group of youngsters and trying to get into europe with us.

if i'm honest i'd think it would be strange for him to jump ship after another successfull year with the chance to really cement ncfc in the prem and make a real name for himself. coudl backfire badly coming to villa.

then again, who knows what he could do here with the right backing and the quality we have coming through from the academy. different challenge from coming up from league 1, but instead of the goal being playign prem football it'd be playing european football...

Lambert at our club dinner last night:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujIop5ekD-4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

'theres a good chance of you interviewing me next season'

Not going anywhere soon I reckon. :notworthy:

seems pretty settled and committed to me. although he does say that you never know what might happen...

If you don't ask you don't get

I concur with the other thread, expectations have been significantly lowered over the last 2 years

They had to be I suppose, whilst the words of the statement the other day were well thought out, they were very generic so we have little idea on the plan going forward

well, if we did ask we wouldn't get. the board have used the words "young", "enthusiastic" and "vibrant" to describe who they are after. let's leave aside the fact that capello wants to win a championship or the champs league so would not even look twice at us at the moment. now, as capello is "old", "disciplinarian" and "dull". i don't think he could be the man the club have described.

lambert is young, martinez is young, rodgers is young. they are all enthusiastic but i'd say rodgers and martinez are more on the vibrant end of the football spectrum.

will it be any of them though? who the **** knows. last time the club made an appointment it wasn't exactly what we were expecting was it?

16s on the sackrace for mccarthy. he's not young or enthusiastic!

martinez is 5/2 for the liverpool job and 8/11 on for us.

lambert doesn't figure for them and is 15/8 for us.

as has been mentioned more than once by the club they want someone young so all the rafa talk, ranieri talk etc. aint gonna happen. even if i think ranieri coudl do us a job to be honest, he's built good teams in the past, he tends to **** up winnin gthings after doing all the hard work to build a squad that challenges...

Everybody goes on about how good our academy is but we have not produced one single quality player yet so it cant be all that good.

cahill? gabby? herd? clark? albrighton?

i still think with the right manager and some more time on the pitch of the players we've seen this year then lichaj, bannan, gardner and baker will turn out to be quality too.

back on topic, if i was manager i'd be looking to use more of them together as they've been paying and winning together for years

The reason is he does that is ££££££, he buys what he knows, look the man is not like MON, honestly believe PL would adapt and change like Moyes.

so why has he say never splashed 500k, or 1mil on a european based player??? there are plenty gems to be had, fair enough some of that list are good up and coming youngsters from Arsenal, Liverpool, Spurs on loan

But need look lot further afield for players rather than UK based ones

as someone who won the champs league playing at a german club, i doubt he'd only in the market for british players. not sure how many languages he speaks though.

i'm warming to the idea of getting him in to be honest. would be good ot do ti quickly!

I would hire a band to sing 'you're the best around.' as the players leave the dressing room before the game.

And all training sessions would be carried out to the theme from Rocky.

nothing's gonna ever keep you down! ahahah

personally i'd be spending pre season fielding a team like this...

----------given----------

lichaj----clark---baker----stevens

--------herd-----gardner----------

zog/alby---------ireland--------carruthers/hollman

-------------bent---------------------

and set them up to keep the ball and move it around a lot revolutionary i know but apparently football can be played by keeping the ball on the grass and playing it through midfield, being patient etc.

that team is technically pretty good, clark his happy in midfield so can distribute well from the back, everyone up to bent is good on the ball. i'd be letting the 3 behind bent swap around constantly too.

once you've had a good look at them pre-season see what value there is in some experienced foreign talent (cheaper) to help them progress as a team.

as has been mentioned we'd need to employ a better scouting network too...

well in the statement the club said they want a young and enthusiastic manager to go with the young and enthusiastic squad. no bad thing IMO, this would rule out...

rafa

ranieri

mcarthy

curbishley

hoddle

...and anyone else over 50 odd i'd say. i reckon they'll enquire after martinez, rodgers and lambert for sure. norwich don't want to let lambert go, rodgers says he's committed to swansea and martinez already knocked us back to sign a new contract at wigan.

so who does that realistically leave us as a young and enthusiastic manager?

AVB going to valencia i think? and not sure he'd be interested as i reckon he'll want a crack at champs league and winning things. not somethign we offer right now.

we need someone who can get the youngsters playing good football together to make the heart of the team kids that have grown up together playign good footy and will give everything for the shirt (and don't earn as much as we have been paying ). then that someone should get in a few older players with real technical quality and experience to help the kids on. this someone woudl then be looking to get us top 6 again for a couple of years before we think about kicking on from there!

who the **** this someone is i don't know. lambert has won everything as a player, and played under some great managers, he's earned his crack at bigger things by doing wonders at wycombe and norwich. he could probably do a good job here. martinez i think could maybe be better suited to the project of moulding the heart and soul of the team from our youngsters (who i think are miles better than they were allowed to be by AM) and getting a good style of football going.

can we get either though? norwich saying they'll fight to keep hold of lambert, martinez already knocked us back 12 months ago.

who does that realistically leave that could manage to do what we need? i think we might do well to look further afield than the prem for a manager. someone who has done that sort of building job with a young squad before and would love a crack at the premiership...

statement sounds good to me, sounds like they realise it was a mistake.

summed up by this i saw on twitter... "the end of an error"

i think a lot of us (me included) gave him time but he got worse not better, he failed to buidl on the (few) promising performances and in the end we were really shocking to watch. totally 100% right decision to get shot now and get someone in who will be able to get the youngsters playing well and get us playing decent passing footy, which they've grown up doing with Sid and KMac.

UTV.

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns/story/_/id/1067003/hubbard:-alex-mcleish-sets-standard-of-mediocrity-at-aston-villa?cc=5739

not sure if been posted and not exactly the mainstream media but still, reason for hope if that is getting written...

keep scouring sites for signs that he's deffo going to be gone. still nothing, i'd really like the last game to be pretty much all the kids and let them play with teh shackles and pressure off and see what happens.

can't see AM doing it though, can't see the club making any statements regarding his future till a week after the last game either.

you'd like to think they have a replacement pretty much lined up and we can start thinking about the rebuild...