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Super-Villan

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  1. A few people speculated the deal might be off, but I certainly never saw any real proof of that. There have been plenty of instances where managers have signed players then left before even working with them and I've never heard of a transfer stopped because of it. At worst I'd imagine the new manager would loan him out or sell him, but I expect he'll be around.
  2. I really can't believe that he was on for a bigger bonus if we reached 40 points. How on earth would you explain the lack of attacking substitutions when 2-0 down against Norwich if that was the case? He should have been throwing the kitchen sink at it rather than putting on defenders.
  3. Forget how he does it and when he gets his wins, keeping Wigan in the Prem every season is a bloody miracle, and he does it playing decent football, and by trying to win games. With the much better squad that we've got I don't think there's any doubt he'd do much much better. And in style.
  4. I grinned and grinned and grinned when I read that. Finally.
  5. I wonder how many of the squads below us can boast a recently bought £25m striker, and a recently bought £10m winger? These are his worst comments yet, for me. And I don't even think he really believes them or he'd have been talking our chances down more at the start of the season. Our squad is easily good enough to be top half, even with McLeish's crap signings in there.
  6. I think the classy thing to do would be to announce before the match that McLeish and the club have agreed by mutual consent that he will step down after the Norwich match. Might help to provide a decent send-off to the season, and might even cheer the fans up enough to give him some kind of send off rather than abuse all game. I don't think the conversations will have happened yet to make this possible though.
  7. I'm pretty joyless of course, but I think anything like this is likely to dtract from any anti-McLeish/Randy sentiment at the ground, and also any reporting of it, so is therefore a bad thing. I am sorry Cuellar is going though, would keep him rather than either Collins or Dunne.
  8. I think Randy's goals were much higher, personally. I don't think Faulkner would have said what he did about Europe earlier in the season otherwise. That doesn't mean he'll necessarily sack him though. Not at all.
  9. Whatever he does won't be wrong. Whatever he does - i.e. whoever he hires - will undoubtedly have a short term boost at least on fans and players, stop all of the negativity surrounding the club, stop some of the negativity surrounding his and Paul Faulkner's own roles at the club. And it would probably boost season ticket sales too. Both Lambert or Martinez would have that effect I'm sure, but not just them. As to what will happen, I'm in two minds. No point voting, I really think either way is as likely as the other right now. I hope we get hammered at Norwich and there's anti-McLeish and Randy chanting throughout to finally tip the balance.
  10. That wasn't an option because you wouldn't have the money from it to sack McLeish, pay compo on a new manager, give some money back to Randy and still leave cash for a new striker. I'm not sure we'd get more than £8m for Gabby.
  11. I suggested much earlier in the season (probably in this thread) that I would reluctantly be prepared to sell Bent if it meant that we could get rid of McLeish and then reinvest at least some of the remaining money (maybe £10-15m) in another striker. If that were the only way we could afford to bin McLeish, would people be in favour now?
  12. I was OK with letting him go at the level we were at back then...and I'd be happy bringing him back considering the level we are at now. Would happily have him in the team over Dunne/Collins right now. Think he always seemed like a good pro, would be good for the youngsters, good for morale and good for the team.
  13. I agree. But if you argued we were positive much under Houllier I'd question that as well, to be honest.
  14. There is no way Houllier is as bad as McLeish. McLeish is one of the worst managers in the country. He's the worst Villa manager ever. Not only have results been dreadful the football has also been consistently awful. Passing football can be made just as bad to watch as long ball football if you're bad enough at it, which mainly we were. The might of Barca seems to make everyone think that a team trying to keep the ball on the ground can only be good. If I had a choice I'd watch Houllier's Villa, but it's close, and probably only because they had Young and Downing.
  15. If we budgeted for top 4 then we underbudgeted, in my opinion. It was never likely on the money we had to spend and would have been a major achievement if we made it (and probably unsustainable without lots and lots more money.)
  16. I think Ged and McLeish are on a par. Given the same squad this season, I think Ged would have had us in a similar position. Though, thinking about it, right now I'm not convinced McLeish could have got Ged's squad 9th. Not that Ged really did either.
  17. I think that if the club really did put the story out that McLeish wasn't assure of being here next season only because they wanted to stem the protests at the Spurs game...then that would probably mean they had already made up their minds not to sack him regardless. So the protests wouldn't have made a difference in that scenario anyway. (Not that I'm sure that was the case myself.)
  18. To be fair to him NZogbia was a signing most of us were celebrating. I dont think McLiesh has done that bad a job with his signings. Its how he has set the team up which has been terrible. You can't judge a manager on whether the fans think a signing was a good idea. He's the one who's had him scouted, he's the one who has personally spoken to the player...he doesn't get a free pass on signing shit.
  19. I don't think there's a chance he'll be sacked before Norwich whatever happens, Randy will want to let him see out the season. I still lean towards thinking he'll be sacked at the end of the season, but I'm less certain than I was before the match today, and more vocal protest would certainly have helped. I don't go to games - it's difficult enough to escape the kids to see half the match on a dodgy stream - but if he does stay then my interest in trying to catch any matches at all will drop to zero I think.
  20. I do wonder if he'll try and change the club a bit more than that by putting a director of football in place. It's an idea that I think many fans have been resistant to in the past, but I think people would welcome a change like that a lot more in our current position. God knows who though. From the recent Graham Taylor stuff that came out, it doesn't sound like it would be him.
  21. Talk of Capello is ridiculous. He clearly mentioned in his recent interview that he is after a Champions League level club and we're a million miles away from that right now.
  22. I don't find it hard to believe that a sales person would hint at that kind of thing in order to get a sale, regardless of whether it was true.
  23. Martinez. He tries to play football, and he seems like a decent guy. I think he has overachieved keeping Wigan in the Prem so long, and I think he has earned the chance to give it a go at a bigger club. I hope it's us.
  24. Bent isn't nearly enough of a footballer for Wenger. I feel slightly safer after last night. Football is odd, so I wouldn't be as foolhardy as to say we're 100% safe, and if results don't go for us next weekend it will still be a nervy last day of the season. I hope last night's result will give more people the confidence to protest against McLeish at the match on Sunday though.
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