VillaChris Posted October 6, 2023 Share Posted October 6, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, MWARLEY2 said: Got to say he really did do us proud with the transfers. The ones that were obviously his choices and not Susos . Ollie Ezri and Ty . He saw the right characters as well as the big potential in all of them. They are all going to have given nearly 10 years to Villa if they see their contracts out here. Also bringing JJ through properly. Giving him time to develop and learn his trade while not putting too much pressure on him. He'd actually be a good fit for the under 21s thinking about it. Wonder if he might apply for that if club offers dry up and Carsley leaves for perhaps a premier league job in the near future. As you say good record of developing young players either signed or through youth system like Cash, Konsa, Watkins, Ramsey and also Archer who got starts in the league cup just before he was sacked. Edited October 6, 2023 by VillaChris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted October 6, 2023 Share Posted October 6, 2023 3 hours ago, VillaChris said: Problem for DS imo would be same as Southgate, he wouldn't react quickly enough to game flows and make changes either tactically or with personnel to counter. Was always a massive weakness here although in those days we did have weak benches. However you look at a maestro like Emery who expertly uses 4-5 subs most games either to run down games or give us a plan B. Next England manager could be Potter tbh. Yes he struggled at Chelsea but we've seen with the issues with Pochettino the structure at the top isn't right to give them success and he's managed in europe and had good improvement at Brighton over a couple of seasons so he'll be in the frame. Steve Cooper is also a very good shout. Welsh but been in the England coaching set up previously and certainly proven himself at club level in last 3-4 years. He's basically what Brendan Rodgers was a decade ago. Potter doesn't react either. His Chelsea spell showed it If anything international managers are quite average. Mancini and Scaloni won last 2 tournaments are incredibly average. Throw in Deschamps too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted October 6, 2023 Share Posted October 6, 2023 1 minute ago, Zatman said: Potter doesn't react either. His Chelsea spell showed it If anything international managers are quite average. Mancini and Scaloni won last 2 tournaments are incredibly average. Throw in Deschamps too Mancini won league titles at Inter and Man. City so bit harsh saying him. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted October 6, 2023 Share Posted October 6, 2023 3 minutes ago, VillaChris said: Mancini won league titles at Inter and Man. City so bit harsh saying him. Inter was a technicality as Juve was punished and City was an unlimited budget. He is a very average manager Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted October 6, 2023 Share Posted October 6, 2023 1 minute ago, Zatman said: Inter was a technicality as Juve was punished and City was an unlimited budget. He is a very average manager International football is like that though. Pretty much it's either a manager who'd just run out of club options and is in 60s so wants to take it a bit easier (Ancelotti at Brazil in next 12 months) or someone who's been sacked a few times and needs it to re-energise their career, Lawrie Sanchez, Mark Hughes and McLeish all got prem jobs on back of revitalising the national teams they managed. Or a youth coach stepping up like Southgate, Scaloni and the guy Spain have got in charge now. I'm actually surprised Mourinho hasn't gone into international manager as his club career has pretty much ended in terms of challenging for league titles and CLs so you'd think he'd fancy trying to lead Portugal to another major honour especially as his style of play is still very effective in tournament football as shown by Roma getting to the two euro finals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Demitri_C Posted October 15, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 15, 2023 5 years ago today one of the biggest masterstroke manager appointments in our history Thank you deano 35 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Don_Simon Posted October 22, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted October 22, 2023 So good to see Deano at VP today. The word "legend" is overused in football conversation, but what he did for us in incredibly difficult times puts him in the conversation for legend status. I'm so grateful to him. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Don_Simon Posted October 22, 2023 Share Posted October 22, 2023 27 minutes ago, Mark Albrighton said: Inject this into my veins. Those days of Deano and Jack were some of the best of my Villa supporting life. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted October 22, 2023 Author Share Posted October 22, 2023 Brilliant to see deano today. Loved the interactions with unai and ollie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Xela Posted October 22, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted October 22, 2023 All Deano signing scoring today. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinebro Posted October 23, 2023 Share Posted October 23, 2023 Did an amazing job as a pundit I gotta say Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyVillans Posted October 23, 2023 Share Posted October 23, 2023 So great seeing smith interviewing mcginn, watkins, emery. Would be great if he could take some role at the club in the future. The only thing that was missing was smith interviewing bailey and greeting him with a "There's only one leon bailey" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BleedClaretAndBlue Posted October 23, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted October 23, 2023 When Unai first shakes his hand and says “Thank you for everything” The bloke is so respectful and knowledgeable. He knew what Deano did and what he means to us lot, he’s just a top top bloke and you can tell how happy Dean is seeing us in great hands now despite what came immediately after him. 19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted October 23, 2023 Author Share Posted October 23, 2023 20 minutes ago, BleedClaretAndBlue said: When Unai first shakes his hand and says “Thank you for everything” The bloke is so respectful and knowledgeable. He knew what Deano did and what he means to us lot, he’s just a top top bloke and you can tell how happy Dean is seeing us in great hands now despite what came immediately after him. Yeah i loved that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Pinebro Posted October 23, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted October 23, 2023 2 hours ago, BleedClaretAndBlue said: When Unai first shakes his hand and says “Thank you for everything” The bloke is so respectful and knowledgeable. He knew what Deano did and what he means to us lot, he’s just a top top bloke and you can tell how happy Dean is seeing us in great hands now despite what came immediately after him. Deano laid the foundations. Martinez, Mings, Konsa, Cash, Luiz, Watkins. Loads of his signings are key players 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted October 23, 2023 Share Posted October 23, 2023 4 hours ago, Pinebro said: Deano laid the foundations. Martinez, Mings, Konsa, Cash, Luiz, Watkins. Loads of his signings are key players Yes Buendia not bad either and Bailey is coming good. The only bad one Ings really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post villa4europe Posted October 23, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted October 23, 2023 4 hours ago, Pinebro said: Deano laid the foundations. Martinez, Mings, Konsa, Cash, Luiz, Watkins. Loads of his signings are key players More than that, he got the buzz back, he brought the fans back, it was his villa team that got the ST waiting list on the go Gerrard tried his hardest to put a huge **** dent in that but there's still a huge amount of feel good around the place that stems from deanos villa 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinker Posted October 23, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted October 23, 2023 8 hours ago, BleedClaretAndBlue said: When Unai first shakes his hand and says “Thank you for everything” The bloke is so respectful and knowledgeable. He knew what Deano did and what he means to us lot, he’s just a top top bloke and you can tell how happy Dean is seeing us in great hands now despite what came immediately after him. Would loved to have heard the off camera conversation they had, Smith signed players with good attitudes and Emery has benefitted from those players. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted October 23, 2023 Share Posted October 23, 2023 2 hours ago, tinker said: Would loved to have heard the off camera conversation they had, Smith signed players with good attitudes and Emery has benefitted from those players. I bet Smith loves it, disappointed that it's not himself who did it but at the same time buzzing his tits off jsut like the rest of us 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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