Zatman Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 odds shortening is as bad as Twitter ITK 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Shay Given - Player/Manager Guzan dropped so he can start every game and dictate the squad from the goal. We'd smash the record for goals conceded from corners that's for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Condimentalist Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 It's a sign.. Shopped, too many fingers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sexbelowsound Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 If Sherwood would except a short term contract until the end of the season and if he does well look at it again then I think he's the man. What we need is a manager with a bit of passion. Give the players a kick up the backside! Who cares if he's a nice guy! Sherwood is far too arrogant to be accepting those sort of terms. He already thinks he has nothing to prove. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eames Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 It's a sign.. Shopped, too many fingers! Bit harsh, he looks a trim for a guy his age and those cadbury products are moorish..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrackpotForeigner Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 those cadbury products are moorish..... Say it as often as you like, I moroccona believe you. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danishlad Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 N. Lennon or S. Mclaren for me with Clarke as assistant. not that anyone in their right mind would take the job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 I've still got 'A letter from Wenger' echoing around my head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yayoboy Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Moyes for me, doubt we could get him though 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eames Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 those cadbury products are moorish..... Say it as often as you like, I moroccona believe you. Stop it now. Noone will take you sahariously. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dounavilla Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 How about Edin Hazards dad ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smetrov Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 The Pope - we need a miracle or two 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
handsworthlion Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Ray wilkins and steve clark until the end of the season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
handsworthlion Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Sorry, wilkins and mulenstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smetrov Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Ray wilkins and steve clark until the end of the season Wilkins would be good - but he is in employment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 According to The Trees, the jet he menitoned last night that flew in from Madrid, is here until Sunday. Sounds like someone from that area is in town to watch us play on Sunday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briny_ear Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 (edited) Interesting article in the Guardian today. Stuart James is usually quite well informed about Villa. http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/feb/12/aston-villa-managerial-vacancy-paul-lambert-director-of-football Sportblog Aston Villa left with few options over managerial vacancy after Lambert’s exit Stuart James The club might have spared themselves some pain had they appointed a director of football long before this week’s sacking • Paul Lambert understands why fans ran out of patience Paul Lambert was sacked as manager this week with Aston Villa 18th in the Premier League. Photograph: Neville Williams/Aston Villa FC via Getty Images Thursday 12 February 2015 21.00 GMTShare on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Share on LinkedIn Share on Google+ The vacancy, which can be found halfway down the page, sandwiched between the opportunity to become commercial manager for the Williams Formula One team and chief executive for the Rugby League International Federation, provides one of the reasons why Aston Villa’s search for a new manager is more problematic than it might otherwise have been. The job title on the Nolan Partners recruitment consultants’ website says: director of football operations – Aston Villa Football Club. Exactly what the position involves in terms of wider responsibilities is unclear – some who claim to have inside knowledge have reservations about whether the job will give the person who is appointed the chance to really influence key areas at the club. It remains something of a mystery as to why Randy Lerner has never sought to address the need for this sort of role in the past nor recognised the benefits of employing someone with genuine football expertise who is able to provide a bridge between the manager and the board and, in the process, reduce the risk of the sort of flawed decision-making that has been a feature of his nine years as owner at Villa Park.There is, however, no escaping the fact that Tom Fox’s search for a replacement for Paul Lambert would be a great deal easier if the chief executive was working alongside an established director of football who had spent the past few months succession-planning with this moment in mind. Unfortunately for Fox and Villa, the post has not long been advertised let alone filled. When Steve McClaren was approached about becoming the Villa manager in 2011only for Lerner to pull out of interviewing him at the 11th hour because of the backlash from supporters in relation to all that “wally with the brolly” nonsense, there was every chance that Dan Ashworth could have been tempted across the city from his post as technical director at West Bromwich Albion to work alongside the former England coach. Advertisement Instead Lerner panicked, Villa ended up with Alex McLeish as manager and the rest – a demoralising season spent flirting with relegation and yet more work for the club’s legal advisers at the end of the campaign when the Scot’s contract was terminated – is history and best forgotten. McClaren, for the record, has no intention of riding to Villa’s rescue now and, quite frankly, who can blame him with Derby County thriving under his watch. The biggest problem facing Fox, who joined Villa from Arsenal in the summer, is that there is not exactly an inspiring list of candidates out there to choose from, especially if the club wants to make an appointment with the long term in mind – which is their preferred option, despite timescales and circumstances being against them. Aitor Karanka, at Middlesbrough, Eddie Howe, at Bournemouth, and McClaren are all catching the eye with their work in the Championship this season and fit the sort of profile Villa have drawn up for their manager, yet it is hard to imagine any of that trio swapping a promotion assault for a relegation battle, not least when there is no scope to add to the squad. That managerial landscape could look rather different in the summer if a firefighter is employed on a short-term, heavily incentivised deal and succeeds in keeping Villa up. But who is that person? The candidate would almost certainly need to be out of work and, once again, there are not many options out there. Tim Sherwood remains the frontrunner with the bookmakers – a sentence that seemingly can be copied and pasted whenever any vacancy crops up in the Premier League these days – although in the eyes of some in the game, the former Tottenham Hotspur manager’s position has been severely weakened in the wake of Chris Ramsey’s decision to take the Queens Park Rangers job until the end of the season. Ramsey was the coach in that partnership. It is, in short, a major test for Fox, who was extremely highly regarded at Arsenal, where he was the driving force behind multimillion-pound business deals across the world in his role as the club’s chief commercial officer, but this is a man who has never before found himself in the position of appointing a football manager. Fox will lean heavily on Paddy Reilly, who returned to Villa in November to become director of recruitment after a spell at Liverpool. Reilly would ordinarily be spending his time identifying players and overseeing scouting – the word inside the club is that he was the man who identified Christian Benteke and kept pushing for the Belgian to be signed from Genk back in 2012 – but he has now emerged as a hugely influential figure when it comes to identifying Lambert’s replacement. For everyone involved at the Midlands club the stakes could not be higher. Villa are 18th in the table, in freefall on the back of a run of only two wins from their past 21 league matches and staring at the sobering prospect of dropping out of the top flight for the first time since 1987 – with all the financial pain that would entail. Few would dispute that Lambert had to go but, as Steve Stride, Villa’s respected former operations director, said on Twitter in the wake of the Scot’s dismissal: “That’s the easy part of the process. Now for the difficult bit.” Basically, we now have vacancies for manager, assistant manager and Director of Football Operations. The creation of the DoFO post is clearly part of a longer term strategy and it seems crucial to make sure the managerial appointment is made with a clear understanding of how the two sets of responsibilities - and the two people who fill the posts - mesh together. I would like to see a short term appointment to keep us up this season followed by recruitment of new manager and DoFO together in the summer. If only the club had done the sensible thing and sacked Lambert earlier, we could have got Pulis in to rescue us, but we should be looking for a similar appointment for now. Also interesting to see the club are briefing that Paddy Reilly, not Lambert, was responsible for scouting and recruiting Benteke, Edited February 13, 2015 by briny_ear 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyjavfc Posted February 13, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted February 13, 2015 Neil Warnock till the end of season anyone? Currently unemployed and he's experienced enough, both in terms of time in management and sheer number of teams managed, to step in and organise the team without a significant bedding in period. And unlike the other 'experienced' names floating about (Hoddle, Curbishly etc.), he's actually managed in the premier league recently. Because lets be honest, no manager with any prospects is going to accept this job before the end of the season. Make it clear he's not a long term appointment but chuck in a massive cash incentive for avoiding the drop and I don't doubt he would come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Eames Posted February 13, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted February 13, 2015 Looks like Tom and Randy have already got their man. Expect a press conference today or tomorrow. Official Site 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Neil Warnock till the end of season anyone? Currently unemployed and he's experienced enough, both in terms of time in management and sheer number of teams managed, to step in and organise the team without a significant bedding in period. And unlike the other 'experienced' names floating about (Hoddle, Curbishly etc.), he's actually managed in the premier league recently. Because lets be honest, no manager with any prospects is going to accept this job before the end of the season. Make it clear he's not a long term appointment but chuck in a massive cash incentive for avoiding the drop and I don't doubt he would come. Notts County - relegated Sheffield United - relegated QPR - on verge of relegation before he was sacked Crystal Palace - on verge of relegation before he was sacked thats his 4 top flight seasons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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