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

I think there's not a Villatalk member who doesn't also have that Twitter feed open as well ;-)

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

Breaking news: despite their best attempts, OGS has been seen being sneaked through the airport terminal:

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

Why are people acting like this is a done deal? I would be happy if it is, yet there is no concrete evidence that it's done and dusted. It could all fall through.

Here's hoping it goes smoothly and he signs the dotted line today.

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

I think the opposite. I actually believe if Randy goes down this route, he will be willing to back Ole on a long term project. Ok, maybe he won't be given a huge 'warchest' at the beginning, but I believe he will back him with funds.

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.

I've completely warmed to the idea over the course of today.

He comes across as a motivated, clued up young man. But level headed and still knows he's got a lot to learn.

Would we rather have a dour, boring, SAFE manager, and go through the motions again ? or someone like Ole who's fresh, completely focussed on playing proper football and with a passion to succeed at the highest level ?

The 'he must have PL experience' is one thing a lot of us moaned about when it was rumoured Randy demanded that last time, now we've got a possible left field option with none, it's as if some folks want exactly what they didn't want last time!

It could go tits up, of course it could. ANY managerial appointment could go tits up. Unless its a boring Curbishley, Sven, McClaren type of thing.

I don't want mediocrity anymore, the Villa are dying as we are. I want some EXCITEMENT!

Take the gamble, be bold, be adventurous and who knows what might happen. At the very least, it'll get the blood flowing through the veins of Aston Villa again. The unknowing edge to appointing someone like Ole, and the willingness from the supporters for him to succeed will create a positive vibe from the off too.

Surely, we ALL want that kind of excitement back ?

"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:

Kenny Dalglish's Liverpool sacking unfair - Alan Hansen

By Alan Hansen BBC Sport football expert

Kenny Dalglish will feel great sadness at his sacking as Liverpool manager - sadness that he will never again walk through the doors of Anfield at the head of the team at the club he loved.

As his friend I feel sadness too. I feel sad that he did not get the chance I believe he deserved, the chance to start next season in charge after finishing eighth in his first full season back and winning the Carling Cup.

I genuinely believe he had done enough to keep his job. I would say the same if any other manager had achieved the same things in the same circumstances Kenny faced when he returned to take temporary control after Roy Hodgson was sacked in January 2011.

Kenny will be shocked and distraught because he loved Liverpool Football Club and their supporters. Just walking through the door at Anfield gave him an extra spring in his step and he will feel fragile today about not being able to do that again as manager.

When he first returned after Roy's departure the perception was that the club was on its knees. I'd never experienced anything like it in the last 30 years, but Kenny quickly unified the club and got the team playing the sort of football the fans wanted.

In reality it was the only place he wanted to be. He had waited so long to get the job back after leaving in 1991. And as his friend I know how much he put into the job. Even when he went back to work at the Academy before becoming the manager again, he put his heart and soul into it. I'd ring him for a chat on a Sunday and he would be down there. He just loved being at Liverpool.

He was so enthusiastic about working with those kids and what he could pass on to them and how he could improve them. Nobody could have worked harder when he was manager because he loved Liverpool so much.

This is why he will feel hurt and upset by what has happened. I knew what it meant to him because he had waited 20 years to get back in and Liverpool was his professional life.

Dalglish himself would have been disappointed with the final Premier League position, but he did win the Carling Cup and if you are winning trophies this should ultimately give the manager some leeway.

When you are rebuilding you have to start somewhere and winning silverware is not a bad place, no matter how highly or otherwise people regard the Carling Cup.

The decision to sack him is therefore further evidence that the Champions League and the riches it offers is king now. Liverpool's owners, the Fenway Sports Group, have set the bar high here because it was always going to be incredibly difficult for Kenny to come back, rebuild the team and restore them to the Champions League in one full season.

Kenny's signings have been central to much of the criticism he has received. No-one would suggest all of Kenny's buys have been rip-roaring successes, but I still think Jordan Henderson will develop into a very fine player and Roy Hodgson saw fit to include Andy Carroll and Stewart Downing in England's Euro 2012 squad and put Henderson on stand-by.

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Kenny Dalglish

It is also always difficult to integrate six or seven new signings instantly. Where there was a problem was with a lack of goals. Henderson, Carroll, Downing, Charlie Adam, and even Luis Suarez to an extent, did not score enough goals in the Premier League.

I am always the advocate of building strong foundations at the back but you need a goalscorer as well and Liverpool simply did not score enough goals.

Kenny was also criticised for his handling of the Suarez-Patrice Evra affair, when the striker was found guilty by the Football Association of racially abusing the Manchester United defender.

What Kenny did do, whether people think it was right or wrong, was show 110% commitment towards his player; in fact I think he probably supported his players too much during the course of the season and Suarez let him down when he did not shake Evra's hand, especially after telling Kenny he would.

Kenny will get over this but there is no doubt he will be hurting. He wanted so much to deliver more success for Liverpool's fans and I don't realistically see him managing any other club.

The task now for Fenway Sports Group is to get a new manager in quickly. For a club that used to make stability its watchword, this will be their fourth manager in two years. You are getting into the realms of Chelsea with all the chopping and changing, so it is a very big decision for them and they need to do it quickly.

They also need to act swiftly to quell any further discontent from supporters and prevent the possibility of an exodus of their better players.

Players such as Martin Skrtel, Daniel Agger, Pepe Reina and Suarez may look and think: "We've finished eighth and Kenny's gone, where are we going from here?" Those players were right with Dalglish and instability such as this can often breed uncertainty and unrest, so the owners must move decisively once they know who their man is.

Sadly, that man is not Kenny Dalglish but he can be consoled by the fact that Liverpool's supporters will never regard him as anything other than an iconic figure in the club's history."

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.

Bannan can do anything that Makoun can, and not only do it a better, but has a lot more to his game as well, including the ability to pass the ball more than 4 yards. If Makoun ever plays a ball like Bannan did to Albrighton away at Fulham, I'll eat my hat.

Makoun has done longrange passes.

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.

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.