Thing is he has managed bigger clubs than villa. He has very little experience of managing meduim sized clubs. Thats part of the difficulty of appointing a villa manager - we are neither big nor small. If your a Bolton, WBA, Wolves, Blackpool - you know you aren't going to be cutting massive deals & and if you are Manu Man C - picking up bargain basement players isn't a high priority - where as villa you need to be able to manage the big time charlies - yet sign the odd £3m gem from the chapionship.
Thats why, despite his decorated CV benitez would IMO fail at Villa.
IMO Moyes and Hughes have the skills we need.
I can understand your argument, but we are a big club, we just signed a striker for £24m, not many other clubs could do that. MON spent a lot of money, not Randys fault he spent it on crap...