claretandblue77

"The best candidate for Aston villa who will complement the clubs commitment to be true to our heritage, competitiveness and passionate fan base" General this was the statement released last week and are the main points to take from it, now if this is all true and just not hogwash, then surely we need to come out and announce our new manager asap. I understand that appointing the best candidate for the vacant managers job isnt easy, but we as fans have had to put up with the press and every other media outlet drag our great club through the mud, with nothing being said. Now back to the statement above, if this is true then i believe there is no way Randy and the Board could appoint a manager that has seen his team relegated twice and play the most dire football around. Mr Mcleish may be a great person but he is a very poor football manager as his stat's will show, his team last year managed to score the almighty sum of 37 goals all season, now i have also read your so called post on another forum, and unless you deny it will take it as your honest view. which i respect as much as the next man's, but if Randy and the board see fit to appoint him as our next manager then i will seriously start having to question the ambition of randy and the board. He may have a tattoo but that to me means nothing, i took last season as a blip and the appointment of GH was never going to work but backed him, everyone can make a mistake but to make it a second time is just not forgiveable in my book. Anyway continue with the DITHERING as it seems thats the only thing our board are any good at. It's now 14th june 2011 and we are still without a manager, sponsor, shirt, goalkeeper. I could go on but i think you have got the message and i don't expect a reply. I just pray that the wait for a new manager and all of the above are worth it, because if we are expected to wait 2 weeks plus as we have, to be given Mcliesh as our new manager than i recommend that yourself and randy sit down and really consider your futures will AVFC. And randy doesnt have to worry as he could always have the tattoo removed, sadly having claret and blue blood is for life and something we as fans can't change.

Appart from Lerner looking for loyalty and Mark Hughes resigning after a year, no I can't see what has changed at all. Why do people say he resigned, when he just chose not to renew his contract, this is no different to us not renewing reo-cokers contract, so for me randy will look a little silly if he is using this logic to rule him out. Its not as if he sent an email to resign like the troll from over the road. I've got to the point where i just wish the board would hurry the feck up, we have a lot to sort out, and i think whoever cmes in is going to be busy in the transfer market, as we have a fair few players to replace. I wouldnt be against Hughes, and just maybe his dodgy agent could find us another Tevez :winkold:

You wouldnt have an online link would you, im stuck doing a 12 hour night shift i could do with a giggle to keep me going, nothing better than footie fans winging on the phone.

Mcleish has resigned from the scum, ooopsss

Billy Davies just left Notts Forest, MMMMMMmmmm how long till the press link him to us

General i do hope all this dithering is going to be worth it. We are taking a pasting in the press over the appointment of our new manager, i just hope that we have someone lined up thats going to shut them all up. Also with all the bad press, isnt this someone at the club needs to look at, its been going on for a few years now and as much as i admire our stance of saying sweet FA, it does make us and yourselves out to be soft touches. Anyway here's to the 1st of july and the appointment of Mr Hughes(the worst kept secret). If my sarcastic comment above is wrong then any chance we can get an indication of when we can see the new gaffer in place.

The thing that worries me is, that if Martinez is our new manager then it goes to show that the spending is going to stop, we are already saying goodbye to AY, i think DJ will follow this summer also. I know there only rumours but if Rafa turned us down due to lack of funds then we have to start to seriously worry. We spent £25 million in January but i always believed that was because Randy knew that was the only way to keep us up. i hope im wrong, im not against Martinez but if its him he's gonna new someone above him to help. Does anyone see with Martinez as manager us getting a DoF, Maybe GH will move upstairs if so i'd take the risk, if its just Martinez on his own i fear for our future.

Their going off the bets placed. You been speaking to my missus!! :winkold: No he's been doing a Giggsy :winkold: (you heard it here 1st)

i Just wish it would be over with, It's getting to the point where i will except anyone just so its done and dusted, It may have been 7 days but don't half feel like a month. The soon this is sorted the better then we can get back to what close season is all about, transfer rumours

Is that your belated 3am exclusive . Can't wait for your next instalment, any chance you will have some later. :winkold:

Afternoon General. Any news on the following. New Shirt New Sponsor New Manager New Goalkeeper Maybe we can do an unveiling of all 4 of the above at the same time, give the fans a moment of joy as the last 12 months are seriously starting to feel like groundhog day.

i don't doubt randy's commitment money wise, aqs previously he has always back his manager, if ancelotti was to come i believe he would back him with what he needed, be that 20-30 million or 100 million, if randy has set his site's on ancelotti then i believe he will back him.

Someone comes up with a story that Ancelotti will be named manager and the negative comments start As for your 54% stat, I am pretty sure some of those people would be happy with Ancelotti instead. Just out of interest who would you go for? not being negative, i'd support Ancelotti 100% if he became our manager. in order, my preference would be: Jol Hughes Moyes Ancelotti well going by your list Jol, hughes and moyes aren't wanted going by your logic 77% don't want Moyes, 89% don't want hughes and your top choice of Jol 95% don't want him. So i'd happily take the man that has got almost 50% of the vote than the rest. If you don't want him just say, don't come up with ridiculous stat's to try and back up your arguement.

For me the new manager needs to be done and dusted ASAP, we currently have no keeper, likely to lose young and downing, and if this drags on to long, likely to cause more unrest. The board should have know for a while the odd's were high GH wouldnt be back, so should have had replacements lined up. I dont except the board have gotta take there time to get it right, as they took long enough last season and didnt. If its hughes then just pay some compo and get it out the way, he's not going back to fulham so surely if its him it wouldnt cost much to get them to waiver the 30 day notice. Do we know if any interviews have been done or are due, i think the rumours ancelotti has turned us down or will are strange, as he seems the type of person that would meet and discuss before deciding if he wants the job or not. So the Dithering continues :?

It's gotta be all out to gety Ancelotti, managers like this don't come along very often, when they do you have to take the bull by the horn's, Randy has ambitions for us and i believe if he wants Ancelotti he will get him. Also would a signing like Ancelotti make the want away players think again, I.E Young and Downing.