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All things considered, I think we have gotten the best "available" and overall man for the job. Welcome Gerard!

Well let's think about it, Our transfer windows will be much, much , MUCH more entertaining! Even the general commented once saying "I'm sure you know who used to run the footbaslling side of things, as well as transfers and his timing etc." Hail the foreign signings! Bundles of talent around Europe for less and less wages!

Diouf is a tit, but a very good player!

I think Agathe was the biggest pile of shite i've ever seen where the Villa colours.

4 Cups and two exhibition games and then went to Lyon who had already won the league 4 times straight and won it again twice How much would he had won at liverpool had he not inherited Gerrard and Owen ? That said he seems a good judge of clubs who can win things - I just can't see it being houllier - I reckon the speculation is because he was the last one interviewed. - Hope fully we will have a new name tommorrow So if he came here and won something with us, GAB and Ash being instrumental, is the next line of excuse "would he have won anything had he not inherited them"? Baffling reasons some people are using for the hate, If you're not for the appointment, so be it, but the arguments have got to have more weight than that IMO.

Really not my first, or even second choice, but he must have impressed the board, and it seems he has alot of contact and knows the European, especially french leage inside out. I'll support him though, I was hoping we would be getting a younger, more high profile manager, but think about it, typical Villa , not astounding, not terrible, right in the upper middle region. :winkold:

I wouldnt mind Ranieri to be honest, always rated him. The "Tinkerman"

I think Sven would be a good manager, with a good profile, I don't really get the "holier than thou" posse. "He likes to get his leg over etc." What so now one of our credentials for being Villa manager is being a Yunic, having no sex drive or a cock? WTF!

Just saw that he had a row with his chairman over a new deal for himself, could he not have done this BEFORE the transfer window closed, and he signed Hleb, so he could have signed for us. (Even though it gives me the shivers just to think where he's been)

I have totally the opposite view. Sounds like he is pitching himself for a DoF job and is embarassing. I really now hope KM gets the job and makes everyone eat their words. I see it as a winner, , The players get to keep their beloved KMAC, KMAC gets to continue his beloved "coaching", either being Head Coach or Assistant manager. He gets to help the new Incumbent etc with the runnings of the club, and hopefully the new incumbent will be that name who can both attract the larger players, have sound financial dealings, expand the scouting network etc etc.

Very good read, and I have to say I agree with absolutely everything Graham Taylor said!

Come on guys, stop panicking, this reminds me of us making signings we really thought were going to be shit, just because they didn't have fancy foreign names, or didn't come from "Big" clubs, like Harewood, Heskey etc. Wer'e ****

This whole "holier than thou" thing the general has said about "I would not want a manager who would just up and leave his club" is frankly.....well.....bollox. How do we get players then? Since we value loyalty so much shouldnt we only be looking for free transfers and youth players? I understand the sentiment but this is a dog eat dog trade, and the nice guys usually end up mid-table or last!

Petrov(Or erm...no real left wing back up...not good enough for our squad?) is a good player, Cacaeido(Or Heskey?) is still very young and also a good player, look at Man City's first team and I guess it should give you a better idea of why they arent in it, a little birdie has told me it's not because their all GASH. . the others I don't really know about.

Good post mate.

I think you'll find we have Beye :winkold: and LUke Young... Careful now, anymore talk like that might see him moaning again Oh you mean our three naturally right sided RIGHT BACKS?! did you see how Beye got turned in Vienna because he couldnt check on to his left foot? MON... is that you?

Dear General, would just like to express my dissappointment at us not being able to strengthen our squad, even if it had to be with loans, or stop gaps until even January I feel it was a huge mistake. I fully understand the fact that we have no manager in place and it would be wrong to blow money at this time, but surely the board must have had the expertise, or at the very least contacted consultants who could have had something done, as it stands we don't even have a left back cover, and If we get a couple of injuries, frankly, we are screwed! Teams around us have strengthened relatively significantly and it is quite disheartening to see some of the quality that has gone to competitors as loans or otherwise. I hope these decisions are fully justified and come January I have egg all over my face. UTV!

And everyone says is I have to put out the obligatotory, yet they have a larger squad than us in both depth and quality, STOP CLUTCHING AT STRAWS! We don't even have left back cover FFS!

Alot of disillusioned people on here, fact is, if we get a couple of injuries we are royally f*cked! Regardless of my bias, BRUM have done good business today, business which WE should have done at the very least! LOANS of top quality players.

One other problem I have with KMAC is that while I love to see our prospects coming through, does anyone else think he may perhaps have a little bit TOO much faith in the reserves given his bias, or experience with them thus far, especially if the news about a loan deal for the Chelsea reserve left back is on the cards.

Now that the window is getting closed, and looking at what other teams are doing, namely BRUM, I'm starting to get a little depressed, surely we should have been able to pull of a couple of loans out of our arses at least?! Even with no manager, we must have expertise at the club, or even consultative expertise to make recommendations based on the depth of our squad? From twitter.

So latest speculation I've seen is that someone made a comment that there was a ginger on his way? Everyone got excited thinking it was Moyes when really it it........drumrolll..... STEVE STAUNTON? As well as KMAC because they worked with the Irish team together, would this tie in with the got 3 targets, a defender, midfielder and a striker, thing? One of which who has played under him already?

:nod:

Dunne and Collins, and if necessary, to tactics and formation, Dunne and Cuellar with Collins pushed up a bit protecting the back four and redistributing.

What about this season? You realise we're only 3 games into it right? We were outplayed the last time even though we won!