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To sell our two best players in one summer is lunacy plain and simple ....just can't see it happening ....but then again nothing would surprise me after recent events

Its the 0.1% thats keeping me awake at night

Seriously its my **** birthday today and this situation is really bringing me down

I don't actually laugh at much, but this is did. I've always enjoyed black comedies.

Happy birthday dude! :birthday:

cheers mate was hoping Moyes would pop out of a cake in a villa tracksuit and a big sh it eating Gollum grin

Its the 0.1% thats keeping me awake at night

Seriously its my **** birthday today and this situation is really bringing me down

Some very interesting tweets by Villa Insider - Moyes story looks very plausible ....its happening!

I want to believe its Moyes but feels like Chinese whispers

MM on twitter (if same one?) is saying Moyes

Sky think that by lunch today RM will say yes or no

do keep up old boy

Im thinking its nailed on to be one of Moyes or Rijkaard..

Im sure I read somewhere that Benitez was ruled out(on Ian Robs site I think).

When you think about it Rijkaad ticks all the boxes for the job, other than no Premierleague experiance.

The board were adament that developing the youth would play a huge part in making the decission on the last appointment.. Rijkaard has proven he is excellent at doing such.And the board may bring him in for talks as he is not tied down.

Where-as Moyes has bought a few youth through and has the Prem experiance. But he isnt available.

How exactly is it 'nailed on' !?

at least you've moved on from Deschamps!

No to Moyes, way too much Everton baggage

My Choices

1) Van Gaal

2) Rijkaard

3) Ancellotti

As a club we need a makeover and our profile raised massively

baggage?? If he slipped Baines and Jagielka into his luggage i bet you wouldn't say no

Disappointing news on Jol i would have been happy with him.

Kendrick says we are interviewing two candidates with Premier League experience this week - looking more like straight race between Hughes and Mclaren now

Despite everything suggesting otherwise - I feel GH has had his last game - the players he has pissed off outnumber those behind him.

Alan Curbishley would do for me - desperate to get back in the game - and would take a chance on villa - not the most exciting name - but his record ain't that bad - he could be there by thursday - come on rany do the right the thing

Are you serious?

Barry is good in possession but its his defensive work off the ball where he goes missing. In the premier league when you play with two forwards and two widemen you need a central midfield pair that know how to protect their back four. In home games it might make sense to start him against the technicially weaker teams, but I would prefer Pires to Bannan as Pires rarely gives the ball away Bannan still does that overplaying it thing that you can't afford to do when playing central midfield. Loan is the best thing for him, for now. Needs game time and we can't really afford to take risks now with team selection.

You the man Philosopher - spot on again

Hope he gets some starts for Leeds soon though

Can I ask why the people who still back Houllier think he can turn it around next season?

Take a look at Harry Redknapp. He took over Spurs in December where they were bottom by some distance and drastically improved them to a top 8 finish. Next season he improved them even further and got them finishing top 4. This season they're even better. It's just that Man City are in a better position due to all the money they've spent. But yet they still have every chance finishing 4th or even 3rd on a good run and they've had serious injuries as well! Let's just say he clicked straight away as soon as he joined at Spurs.

Now look at Houllier. His inherited a team that's finished 6th three times in a row, a team that's done better than Spurs over the two seasons apart from Harry's full season. From the moment Houllier joined he called us a 7th-12th team. Where on earth did that come from? If he said a 5th-8th team then fair enough. Why up to 12th? Anyway, how is it that his had much more time to prepare compared to Redknapp (September, not December) in a much, MUCH better position (8th with plenty of games, not 20th near half games left) that his managed to drag us all the way down to bottom 3 and now can't get us out of a relegation fight? Why is it that he can't get the results to progress back up even after splashing money on the Jan window? Why is it that were only 3 points away from relegation. That's outrageous.

Thats because Spurs were in the opposite situation to us - hugely talented squad that were massively underperforming. We on the other hand had a fairly mediocre squad that were overperforming (to MON's credit although he cherry picked these hardworking physical, athletic players to fit a rather archaic system and football style).

That said we clearly should be doing better than we are - however I still think we will finish in top half this season and the signs on the pitch are very promising for the future in my opinion. Houllier just needs to get more on the wavelength of the fans and get himself a PR manager.

Stay for me- that was not a performance of a team that is doomed.

How many other teams could cope with 3 main central defenders out?

I still believe we are making progress on the pitch, a bit of luck wouldn't go amiss

Here we go, 1-1 and playing like shit. Delph is having a bad game.

playing shit - are you serious?

Herds got some cahunas ...like him

Petrol and Bradley need to go off now!

Young and NRC on please

Bannan the one shining light

So disheartening after the week-end

A proper player - can't believe it was only his 2nd game. His passing just oozed class.

Can't wait to see Bradley alongside him.

Am I the only one loving that we will sign Bent on the same day that £700k Kenny Miller rejects the noses?!

Mirror reporting that Ancelotti is considering hijacking the deal.

Can't see Bent goingh there. Bent wants 90 mins a week..!

As usual the London bias press just trying to put a spanner in the works.

Bit like how they are jizzing over Pienaar to Spuds

He'll be a handy squad player in future. His versatility is his main strength. I can't see him reaching the level of standard I think we need to be a regular starter. He's not too dissimilar to John O'Shea at Man Utd.

I don't recall O'shite scoring a goal like Ciarans against Arsenal.

Loving Clark at LB

Get In!!!

I just want to see some comittment and desire today. UTV.

Absolutely this - I can tak defeat today, what I can't take is another roll over heartless display that we saw at City and Anfield.

Time for our experienced players to stand up and be counted