avfcgoodie Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Id actually go with a slightly underwhelming appointment of Mark Warburton from Brentford, really intelligent guy, also the founder of the next gen series so you would think would be passionate about working with Sid Cowans and the academy to see the academy players come through and actually see them flourish. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R.I.C.O. Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 I think Gianfranco Zola would be a good shout. He'd certainly get more out of this crop of players than McLeishbert. We should have appointed Mark Hughes when we had the chance. He's slowly rebuilding his reputation at Stoke and has worked on a shoestring to do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electric Avenue Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Would anyone gamble on Platt ? At least he has villa connections. John Gregory again ? We definitely need a DoF type person and Sir Graham would be my choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villan4Life Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 (edited) Murat Yakin of Basel!! He is only 39 and done wonders at Basel already bringing on Salah (Who's at Chelsea now) Fabian Schlar (Goalscoring central defender with something like 4 goals in 7 games for Switzerland already) Murat played with his brother Hakin in world cups and around 100 caps for Switzerland. He has Turkish ancestry so wouldn't put up with any crap! Anyone who hasn't heard of him, please google him!! his record speaks for itself http://www.goal.com/en/news/1717/editorial/2014/04/10/4737306/the-next-guardiola-marvellous-murat-yakin-deserves-a-chance Against all the odds and the expectations of the continent, Basel made history last season by reaching their first European semi-final. Twelve months on, with dreams of a treble still alive as their domestic superiority continues, the Swiss champions are on the brink of the last four again after dismantling Valencia in the Europa League quarter-final first leg. All this with a squad size and financial backing which barely register on the Richter scale of the continent's biggest movers and shakers. Little wonder, then, that coach Murat Yakin is becoming one of Europe's hottest properties. MURAT'S BASEL MAESTROS YANN SOMMER Signed by Gladbach as Ter Stegen's summer replacement, Sommer has become one of Europe's finest since 2012. FABIAN SCHAR Still just 22, the cultured defender - with a rasping shot - and has been tracked by Barca and Dortmund despite injuries. FABIAN FREI The Swiss league's most versatile player played down a January move by claiming suitors "wouldn't know" his best position. MOHAMED ELNENY A technically gifted 21-year-old midfielder who starred alongside Mohamed Salah at youth level for club and country. VALENTIN STOCKER On the brink of joining Schalke before the deal fell through, thw einger has speed and skill in abundance - and a wicked finish.While Basel are no strangers to Europe's top table, they have always remained small fry among the continental elite. Shock Champions League wins over Manchester United and Bayern Munich in 2011-12 were seen as one-off triumphs rather than signs of genuine progress under coach Thorsten Fink (and later Heiko Vogel). A 7-0 thrashing at the Allianz Arena that season was a return to the norm. Yakin has changed that perception. After guiding Luzern to second in the league and a place in the Schweizer Cup final, the former midfielder was picked to replace Vogel in October 2012 after Basel picked up just four wins in their first 11 games. Yakin promptly defended Basel's league crown reached the cup final against Grasshopper Zurich. A penalty shoot-out defeat handed their rivals their first trophy in 10 years, and remains Yakin's sole blot on his Basel copybook. But it was in European competition where he began to capture attention. Building his side around a flexible 4-2-3-1 system, Basel despatched Dnipro and Zenit with minimal fuss before their historic win over Andre Villas-Boas' Tottenham last season. Defeat to eventual winners Chelsea followed, but Yakin – far from accepting an inevitable end to the dream – was already plotting revenge. Summer brought more transition to the club: the departure of outstanding defensive prospect Aleksandar Dragovic and the retirement of club icon Alex Frei could have been enough to destabilise FCB in the past. But not under Yakin. In came former players Matias Delgado and Behrang Safari, Ivan Ivanov and later Marek Suchy bolstered the defence, and the core talent of Yann Sommer, Fabian Frei, Mohamed Salah and Valentin Stocker was retained. Yakin also toyed with his tactics. The 4-2-3-1 system was adapted to a 4-1-4-1 for Basel's more difficult games, with Fabian Frei moved into the midfield pivot role (one which Yakin adopted for club and country as a player) to allow more creative freedom for Stocker, Salah and new signing Giovanni Sio further forward. It was a system deployed for spells of the game at Stamford Bridge, as Basel inflicted upon Jose Mourinho his only home defeat thus far since his return to Chelsea and a first win in 20 attempts for Swiss sides in England. By the time Salah struck the winner in the return fixture - and sealed his own January move to the Blues - Yakin was a noisy blip on the European radar, buoyed by the "beautiful" praise of Mourinho. Hannover made enquiries, which the 39-year-old dismissed; Tottenham, having dispensed with Villas-Boas, reportedly named him on a shortlist of options which included Louis van Gaal and Ajax coach Frank de Boer. Stellar company indeed. Injuries soon mounted; Schar's three-month convalescence was made worse by a host of further absentees. So Yakin changed again: Frei was moved into the back four, Mohamed Elneny and Serey Die took charge of the midfield engine room, and Basel stayed top of the Super League before putting Europa League top-scorers Red Bull Salzburg out of the competition with a whimper. Against Valencia, with no recognised strikers available, five defenders sidelined and St Jakob Park empty after a supporter ban, the end of the road seemed inevitable - this was a team who beat Barcelona at Camp Nou, after all. But not so. Yakin started the match with Delgado as a false 10, with Stocker and David Degen either side on the wings. Delgado scored his first goals since September; Basel were free-flowing, supremely disciplined and up for the fight. And yet the win came as no surprise to Yakin's charges. "It's not incredible for us," Delgado said after the match. "We believed that we could do something like that, for sure. Maybe we didn't think about winning 3-0, but our team beat Chelsea, these lads have a lot of experience with big teams – you can see it, you can feel it." Yakin has never lost by three or more goals in Europe. Don't expect this belief to waver in Spain on Thursday. On the brink of more domestic silverware and a second-successive Europa League semi-final, Yakin's stock has never been higher, and he will be primed to listen to any offers from abroad this summer as he enters the final year of his contract. The Bundesliga and the Premier League remain the most likely possible destination; some of his Basel stars could even join him. As a player, Yakin struggled to cement himself at clubs outside of Switzerland. Stuttgart, Kaiserslautern and Fenerbahce (twice) all tried and failed to coax the best from him on the pitch. But should he continue to flourish in the dugout, the man already regarded as one of Basel's greatest-ever servants could yet become their finest export to date. Edited April 13, 2014 by Villan4Life 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CottenM Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 I say this every time it comes around (all too frequent in recent years) Slaven Bilic! Did a good job with Croatia, his club record might not be brilliant but, he is in a rock band... And he looks pretty cool. And isn't Scottish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Albert Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Owen coyle please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coda Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Would anyone gamble on Platt ? At least he has villa connections. John Gregory again ? We definitely need a DoF type person and Sir Graham would be my choice. No. He failed at U21 level so I can't see him succeeding at a club in a total mess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 A manager wouldn't leave another premier league job to come to villa unless he was offered a huge transfer kitty. Lambert did... At that point Villa had more potential, another 2 years of cost cutting since has slashed the appeal of being Villa manager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Wait for lambert to go before making this kind if thread FFS Did you hit an S instead of a P? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrinityRoadSteps Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 I am having lunch at VMF today. Will ask the waiter if he could do a better job than Lambert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Big_John_10 Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Wait for lambert to go before making this kind if thread FFS Did you hit an S instead of a P? Haha brilliant. TBH no decent manager is going to come and work under Lerner. We just need one better than Lambert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suttonpaul Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Wait for lambert to go before making this kind if thread FFS Did you hit an S instead of a P? Still reading posts incorrectly I see Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AXD Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 (edited) Christoph daum? Not the most exciting style of football, but he brings structure and discipline Another european coach that comes to mind is Eric Gerets, did well at PSV, Marseille, Wolfsburg,... Don't know what he's up to these days Edited April 13, 2014 by AXD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morley_crosses_to_Withe Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Murat Yakin is a great shout, for sure, but he'll go on to greater things. His next move is surely going go be to a big CL club!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morley_crosses_to_Withe Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Owen coyle please We have Owen Coyle MK II. There's no point bringing in the original Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Wait for lambert to go before making this kind if thread FFS Did you hit an S instead of a P? Still reading posts incorrectly I see It's ok, you can admit you didn't get the joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjenkins Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 I don't really want to speculate about this whlst Lambert is still in the job, but I was reading about Paco Jemez of Rayo Vallecano not so long ago and he seems to be getting a poor team with a small budget to play good football. The only problem I can see is that, like Lambert, apart from one job he doesn't exactly have a glittering record. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarpie Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Bernd Schuster would be breath of a fresh air and is known for attacking style of football. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HalfTimePost Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Sami Hyypia with Sascha Lewandowski Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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