KMitch

Not a "Proper Man"...

No way he goes to Leicester. He won't go to us either... He is the first name the elite clubs will call when they need a new manager... Why would he take a step backward in his career and go for either of the Villa or Leicester jobs? Leicester are properly fooked right now. Their board are publicly using the new UEFA FFP rules of <70% of revenue as salary as the reason why they aren't reinvesting any money into the club right now, but no manager worth his salt is going to walk into that mess after seeing how they've left Rogers out to dry with no funds while selling their best young player for a fortune. Imagine if Villa hadn't spent any of the Grealish money last summer. We'd be talking about Sean Dyche and Nigel Pearson too...

They were calling for Poch & Potter on their subreddit yesterday...

Also won them the FA Cup... They're being asset stripped right now and he isn't being given any money to buy replacements.

Leicester's defense is awful... Unless they buy some defenders this January, they're going to continue to be relegation contenders.

VAR just proves that matchfixing still happens. The entire argument against it just exposed corrupt officials and the English referees association was 100% against it. I think they figured that if they made VAR reviews incredibly inconsistent and a complete shitshow, they can fix matches even easier than they were able to before VAR. This kind of nonsense doesn't happen in other leagues with VAR... Just England...

What a joke... VAR saving Rodgers job right now...

lol... Why is VAR not this awful in every other topflight league around the world? No consistency in how things are checked

Leicester score in the first minute... Going to be a good game now...

I couldn't care less about Norwich City, but I have all the time in the world for Dean Smith. He's my favorite Villa manager of all time and I'm still upset about the way he was let go last season. I wish him well and want to see him succeed no matter where he goes, except for whenever he plays the Villa, then I'm against him for 90 minutes.

Delighted with the point. Also happy with the fact that we tried something different tactically for once. Nice job, Gerrard... It only took you 33 matches to win a point against a top 6 side... You'll have to wait another week or two to become the worst manager in our history at this rate!

This... Everyone needs to stop saying it was on-side and the goal should have counted... It was the correct call because of this reason.

Considering they've won the last 7 against us, probably not...

Hopefully Emi isn't really injured... That would we horrible for us.

Pathetic marking by Konsa again... Capitulation start now...

Bournemouth coming back to tie this 2-2 with Forest... End to end stuff this game.

Very dodgy VAR officials this week. Getting worse this season.

So true... He took over the job from a manager universally adored by Norwich fans and they struggled massively to play any sort of decent football last season. Some have never wanted him from day 1 and most Norwich fans aren't bothered by him one way or the other it seems.

I don't know about that... Much better manager at least.

VAR doing everything in its power to rule out a stonewall penalty for Forest. VAR review for 5 minutes checking everything from offsite to multiple angles on the obvious handball, to calling the ref over to review again on the monitor... Fishy as fook...

I honestly liked our business this window, but as long as Gerrard is here, we won't see the fruits of it. Our next manager will utilize all the pieces of the squad to their fullest.

Agreed. He is a meme and former players don't have good things to say about him. Glen Johnson said he tries so hard to be Mourinho in everything he does and as someone who was actually managed by Mourinho at Chelsea, he couldn't take Rodgers seriously.

His work at Southampton (Getting a lower half club into Europe) got him the Spurs job. His work at Spurs (Getting a top half team to a Champions League Final) got him the PSG job. His experience at PSG and meeting expectations winning the league and French cup will get him a job at any other elite club he wants to... Why would he step backwards twice in his career progression to manage Villa? It's like someone who is a VP at a large company going back to middle management at a startup, instead of pushing for a CEO job instead.

Poch would never come to Villa. His stock is too high right now. He's going to be the first name one of the elite European clubs call this season when they need a new manager. Marco Rose would be my 1st choice, but I doubt he would even be considered. I wouldn't be surprised if we ended up with Rafa, Rodgers, or Potter as the next manager. Potter is the obvious choice, but Purslow knows Rafa & Rodgers personally from his time at Liverpool and Chelsea, so he may turn to them as more experienced options to keep us up and drive us forward.