sne Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 If I'm going to be a bit cynical, both our managerial appointments under Xia smacks of someone who hasn't really followed football that long or closely. Di Matteo, he's won the CL, must be good. Bruce, he's gotten promoted from this league before, must be good. Obviously there were other reasons they were signed, like availability, willingness to come here and so on. But both signings are a bit lazy. I wonder if we have people at the club who could spot someone like say Silva at Olympiacos (Hull)? or Nagelsmann at Hoffenheim. Ewiw If Hull are relegated I hope we try and poach Silva from them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lunarsea Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 18 minutes ago, sne said: If I'm going to be a bit cynical, both our managerial appointments under Xia smacks of someone who hasn't really followed football that long or closely. Di Matteo, he's won the CL, must be good. Bruce, he's gotten promoted from this league before, must be good. Obviously there were other reasons they were signed, like availability, willingness to come here and so on. But both signings are a bit lazy. To be fair to Di Matteo, he also gained automatic promotion to the Premiership for WBA ...... and an FA Cup for Chelsea. ...... and Steve Bruce has achieved promotion to the Prem 4 times..... which is quite a few. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jareth Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 1 hour ago, sne said: If I'm going to be a bit cynical, both our managerial appointments under Xia smacks of someone who hasn't really followed football that long or closely. Di Matteo, he's won the CL, must be good. Bruce, he's gotten promoted from this league before, must be good. Obviously there were other reasons they were signed, like availability, willingness to come here and so on. But both signings are a bit lazy. I wonder if we have people at the club who could spot someone like say Silva at Olympiacos (Hull)? or Nagelsmann at Hoffenheim. Ewiw If Hull are relegated I hope we try and poach Silva from them. RDM yes but Bruce was recommended to the owner by Round and the rest of the board - who between them have decades of experience. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post wilko154 Posted February 2, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted February 2, 2017 Makes me laugh, if we had brought someone else in instead of Bruce people would be slating Xia and the board for not bringing Bruce in when he was available. The guys at the top are doing everything they can to turn this club around, unfortunately its going to take more than a season to do it given the dramatic nose dive we have experienced over the last 5 years. 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Lerner's Driver Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 Patience, what's that? This is 2017, where the minimum requirement is total, instant success, or you are FIRED five minutes after being appointed. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kurtsimonw Posted February 2, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted February 2, 2017 4 minutes ago, Lerner's Driver said: Patience, what's that? This is 2017, where the minimum requirement is total, instant success, or you are FIRED five minutes after being appointed You'd give him that much time? Madness, why give him the chance to fail? I don't know who's taking over from Bruce, but he aint won us a game yet. Future manager OUT. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobzy Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 2 minutes ago, kurtsimonw said: You'd give him that much time? Madness, why give him the chance to fail? I don't know who's taking over from Bruce, but he aint won us a game yet. Future manager OUT. But I thought my exploits on Football Manager would be enough to persuade people tha.... ok, fine 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa89 Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 23 hours ago, ender4 said: He hasn't failed in the Championship with Villa yet either. As it stands, he came in and has taken us from 19th to 14th. He has now got some of his own players in, and i'd expect us to probably finish 8-9th at the end of the season. Essentially he has 18 months to get us promoted. If that doesn't happen he'll probably be sacked. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 19 minutes ago, villa89 said: Essentially he has 18 months to get us promoted. If that doesn't happen he'll probably be sacked. yes agreed. or we are nearing Xmas and it looks like he's not going to get promoted that season. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoubtGin Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 Tony with more news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaJ100 Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 I just hope that Bruce's team is good enough for the job. The rate we have degraded as a club due to ineptitude this money from Xia is like putting a 4L V8 in a Nova/massive attack missile system on a dreadnought/top dollar versace clothes on a zombie. The new stuff is great but the decrepit carcass is still festering/rusting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grasshopper Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 I've had enough of all these metaphors. ".....its like you....... with a ........ the a ........ is a ........." We ARE shit. Yes that dripping/solid brown stuff that is no good for anything, stinks and is embarrassing to be a butt for all the jokes. I'm fed up of being, watching shit and my heart hurts because of the disappointment of it all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 (edited) 15 hours ago, sne said: If I'm going to be a bit cynical, both our managerial appointments under Xia smacks of someone who hasn't really followed football that long or closely. Di Matteo, he's won the CL, must be good. Bruce, he's gotten promoted from this league before, must be good. Obviously there were other reasons they were signed, like availability, willingness to come here and so on. But both signings are a bit lazy. I wonder if we have people at the club who could spot someone like say Silva at Olympiacos (Hull)? or Nagelsmann at Hoffenheim. Ewiw If Hull are relegated I hope we try and poach Silva from them. Not sure of the logic here... to pursue a possible relegated manager and criticise / replace the one we have. Edited February 2, 2017 by TRO 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 2 hours ago, Grasshopper said: I've had enough of all these metaphors. ".....its like you....... with a ........ the a ........ is a ........." We ARE shit. Yes that dripping/solid brown stuff that is no good for anything, stinks and is embarrassing to be a butt for all the jokes. I'm fed up of being, watching shit and my heart hurts because of the disappointment of it all. "And renew your season ticket now at Aston Villa for the 2017-18 Championship campaign" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippo Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 To get time the manager has to be seen to getting the club on track. Still think bruce is our best bet - but two things niggle at me:- 1.His weakness as a manager seems be that his teams often struggle for goals 2.Don't know why he want for another rookie keeper - thats seems a real worry over the next few weeks. Hope I'm wrong, but I think we are going to flounder for the remainder of this season, mainly due to point 2... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 On 31/01/2017 at 22:59, NottingVilla said: Who does that sound like? I ain't putting blame on Tony here though....Steve Round takes care of that sort of shit doesn't he?? Employing managers etc. Xia is just the money and paperwork man. I don't know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyp102 Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 So with our games seemingly being on Sky more than any other championship team, could this be down to Xia paying Sky so that we get a more globalised market? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post GENTLEMAN Posted February 4, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted February 4, 2017 1 minute ago, mikeyp102 said: So with our games seemingly being on Sky more than any other championship team, could this be down to Xia paying Sky so that we get a more globalised market? I think they just like the drama of us failing TBH 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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