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5 minutes ago, Stevo985 said:

Yep. If it's so easy why don't people massively undercut these agencies and monopolise the market

Pop onto a fan website and copy the ideas that have been uploaded. Job done

Nah would rather see him go on a free to a European club in the summer than for £5-10m in January to an English club

49 minutes ago, viivvaa66 said:

Slowly is the word, how on earth did we manage to not get 3 points against 10 men Leeds. We have played 6 bottom half team so far, and the points return have been dismal.

Look at the fixtures for the rest of the year:
Nottingham (A) #20
Chelsea (H) #5
Fulham (A) #8
Brentford (H) #10
Newcastle (A) #7
Manchester United (H) #6
Brighton (A) #4
Liverpool (H) #9
Spurs (A) #3

That is 8 from the top half and one from the bottom. That means our run of easy opponents ends after Nottingham, and with Gerrard’s track record against top teams, no more wins in 2022.

If we don’t win against Forest, we would struggle to end the year on double digit points.

He should have been sacked long time ago, but the sooner he is gone the sooner the rebuild of the club can begin.

Gerrard would get us 6 points max from that lot.. and I'm being optimistic about winning at Forest

1 hour ago, MakemineVanilla said:

Make or break for Stevie boy, me thinks.

Anything less than a win would be the final indictment of his capability, and so some Villa fans will no doubt be supporting Forest for this one.

Agreed. I think this is the game that will force NSWE's hands if we don't win comfortably. I think he might even be in trouble if we scrap an uncomfortable/undeserving win

27 minutes ago, est1874 said:

I mean; once I see the final 2 options I will immediately be wondering what the 3rd looked like, especially if the final 2 are somewhat underwhelming.

Same. Just present all 3, have a vote. Lowest one goes and then have a second vote. That way the majority of fans will be happy. 

Tough one regarding who gets to vote. I'd open it up to season ticket holders too. I would say 'general' fans but leaves us open to other team's fans coming on and messing with the voting.

Out of the three descriptions, i'm leaning towards the lion only. 

On 20/08/2022 at 00:24, Tayls said:

32 positions within the business there and not a single female amongst them. Mental. 

Swear i've seen a female on the bench the last few games. a Physio perhaps?

Is Filip Marshall still at the club or has he been loaned out too?

Jed Steer to the rescue

42 minutes ago, AntrimBlack said:

Do you think he may have made an error this time in taking Purslow's advice re. our present manager?

I think Edens might be thinking that they have to get appointment right this time and will have much more of an input

13 hours ago, a m ole said:

Would love to believe, but last few posts were him saying we weren’t signing Bednarek.

Yeah this took the gloss of his 'ITK' status but i'll take the pinch of salt with a tablespoon of 'pleaseeeeeee'

2 minutes ago, duke313 said:

He fell out with the hierarchy at Dortmund as well.

Just read an old Mail article about that funnily enough. Fell out over transfer plans. Would have to get onboard with Lange too in that case.

I think with Dortmund, they got very close to Bayern and I guess he wanted one or two big names to take them up a level and Dortmund didn't want to go against their policy. That's just me speculating obviously 

11 hours ago, thunderball said:

I have always advocated stability and patience however I think Gerrard had to be an upgrade on Smith - he clearly isn’t on lots of levels, I even think he is inferior. I am not a big fan of his detached management, he comes across as entitled and destined for bigger things, he actually comes across as an old school attitude Management dinosaur. He might make it as a manager but we don’t have time to let him learn his trade, this club needs a solid, experienced manager, Poch and Tuchel, and possibly soon, Rogers all fit this bill. I think we have seen enough, some of our outings this term have been shambolic, however vs Man City was excellent. I just think it’s too late given what’s possibly on offer.

Great post. Agree completely 

14 minutes ago, ozvilla28 said:

I'll take Tuchel in a heartbeat top manager perfect gor us.

I would have him here too. The only issue seems to be that he falls out with owners/sporting directors.. but then again when you manage clubs like PSG and Chelsea.. there is always the chance that could happen.

Personally think he would fit in very well here.. just have to keep CP on his side 

£16m is the cost for Potter 

1 hour ago, ozvillafan said:

Will be interesting to see how his brand of football does against Real Madrid in the CL

I think Celtic might surprise them. Might not get the win, but they will put up ore of a fight than they have done in previous European nights

1 hour ago, ozvillafan said:

Postecoglou

Interesting shout. Has done wonders up in Glasgow

11 hours ago, MaVilla said:

I also like this, could swap Bailey in for either Couts or Buendia in a 343 type:

 

Dendoncker in for Chambers and Luiz into the middle alongside Kamara would be a good option too.  

Wonder if he will play as the #6 and allow Kamara to play as more of an #8 in SG's Christmas tree of death formation.

3 minutes ago, WallisFrizz said:

Have asked a Wolves supporting colleague at work today. Says he’s sh*t. Too defensive, passes back rather than forwards and not even very good at that.

He'll fit right in then. Filled in at CB a lot for Wolves too if I recall correctly. 

Him and Lehmann both stopped posting stories etc. of each other on IG. Perhaps they've broken up and that was the final straw for Dougie 

Met Poch yesterday and we're apparently in for Moura today. I think it's safe to put the 'it's happening' gif on this and rename the thread

Looks like another one for the 'what-if' list

The only 'positive' we can take is that the board do not trust Gerrard enough to give him big money and are saving it for his replacement to spend in January. Hopefully we aren't too far down that creek by then

3 minutes ago, RicRic said:

Diallo and tielemans

 

                           Martinez

    Cash        Diallo/CC      Mings      Digne

                             Kamara

                Tielemans           Luiz

                            Buendia

                  Bailey          Ings/watkins

 

Something like this could work

More likely Dawson and nobody