Jarpie

I misread the original message ...and I have sense of humour but it's dry and dour

Here's one, I don't use twitter.

Sheesh, he really is young isn't he. Who's the guy carrying him? That's not Solksjaer, that's Orlando Bloom.

And now we wait for the news if anyone seen Solksjaer getting on the plane

Exactly, you never know how things turn out and I'm not celebrating before it's official.

It's the type of player though he will bring to the mix. The sort you'd want playing in a C & B shirt week in week out and will be happy to give their all for a lot less than some of the poison MON attracted to the club. Yes I love seeing us buck the trend using home grown talent but we do need perhaps some other influences... The Mellbergs, the Laursen's... neither Englishmen and both Scandinavian.......but still love the club to this day. As I posted a couple of weeks ago I have a friend in the City, who used to live in the same apartment complex as Hangeland of Fulham & he was telling me the Scandinavians particularly Norwegians have a completely different mindset to the overpaid WAG & drink culture graduates that the PL tends to breed.... eg Man City reserve/fringe players turning up for training in Chauffeur driven cars. It's madness, because they & their avaricious agents are bankrupting football. As as scandinavian, although finnish, I'm gonna say that's true. Scandinavian people seems to be mostly pretty grounded but naturally there's always exceptions. Can't say for other scandinavian countries but at least finnish athletes are sometimes even too modest.

One thing crossed my mind; if he will be hired and he plays the style he told in the documentary... that really rejuvinate our attacking midfield, especially if Olympiacos won't buy Makoun and we keep him.

lol, my prediction: Liverpodge fans going absolute bonkers for them appointing who's not Capello or other household name.

"Safe" appointment like McClaren almost got Nottinghan Forest relegated.

It's good think McLeish on two separate ways; True, he was utterly horrible manager and deserves all the criticism he gets for his managerial work but people should remember not to go into personal attacks. He easily could've gone with "Fans never accepted me and caused me to get fired" or something like that, but instead he took the firing him more graciously.

If they appoint OGS as our manager, it'll be a gamble but if he pulls it through, it will probably get club moving forward again.

Always rely on ex-redscum on defending their own, Alan Hansen @ BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18104266

The way I see it there's always risk in hiring -any- manager, it's pretty much complete gamble if the manager fits in with the players and team. Sure there's more risk in hiring manager who has never managed team in premier league or any other major league but sometimes you gotta take a chance with unkown managers.

I don't think there's any chance Klinsmann coming to manage Villa, that's even more hopeful thinking than AVB.

Why Big Sam would be such a poor choice for manager? But doesn't seem to fit the criteria though.

Bent moved on? That'd be imo lunacy, the first profilic goalscorer in Villa since Dublin and you want to get rid of him?

I also think that the new manager should be someone who knows european leagues, and naturally plays attractive football. I'm not that impressed by Martinez either, very much seems like hit'n'miss, also he doesn't seem like manager with the personality what Villa would need right now.

I don't think it's neither Capello or Steve Bruce, because Villa is supposedly looking for younger and energic manager.

Makoun has done longrange passes.

The challenge for us is finding midfield partners that can take advantage of this. Stan certainly doesn't move to receive return balls of the type Makoun plays and if Heskey is nominally the attacking CM'er/link striker this feature of Makoun's game is somewhat wasted? A bit like when Angel first arrived, he may be too good in the passing area for us at this stage. I earlier wrote post that we should play Makoun+Delph+Ireland or Bannan, that combination would probably work very well together.

Makoun is a player who probably won't get noticed as easily as players like Charlie Adam, N'Zogbia or Delph etc. because Makoun doesn't do fancy "hollywood"-passes, run from box-to-box, or dribble as N'Zogbia, but he has real talent and vision for distributing passes with one or two touches.

Makoun + Delph + Ireland/Bannan should be given a chance as midfield trio against some of the lower teams or in cup against possible championship team to see how they fare together.

I've been very pleasantly surprised how good Warnock has been, and he haven't given stupid foulds like first half of the last season.

Correction: The Everton player dived and got penalty. When I have seen Makoun play, he always has kept the ball moving and opening the game, and given very good passes.

In spring Makoun missed couple games because he was injured or suspended, and was allowed to leave the country for the last couple games because his family got into an accident.