Hiney Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 Sacking Dean and replacing him with Steven Gerrard would be massively underwhelming 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robtaylor200 Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 The worse one in my mind would be to take the drunken Portuguese waiter nothing special about him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robtaylor200 Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 6 hours ago, IrishVilla10 said: Gerrard would have to impress enough with us to be considered for the Liverpool job. It’s a risk for both parties and if he does impress enough with us well that has to be a good thing doesn't it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomaszk Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 27 minutes ago, Hiney said: Sacking Dean and replacing him with Steven Gerrard would be massively underwhelming It would be incredibly stupid. For all Purslow's faults, I don't think he usually makes stupid decisions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CVByrne Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 Hjulmand would be the worst appointment from the list. Was nothing special as a club manager and his team did well at the Euros. Gerrard would be risky, he could be great but he could flop. It's the lack of experience and the fact Celtic went into dramatic decline last season and so how big are his achievements at Rangers. It'll be more learning on the job and I think that's not what we need. Hassenhuttl has the experience and style of play to suit our players and would be a good appointment. Potter would also be good as Brighton are well coached side and play good football. He would probably take the job but is he a blue nose? heard he might be a Villa fan? Nuno plays defensive football and isn't a fit for our players or what we want as a fanbase in terms of playing style. Fonseca has lots of experience, has won trophies and his style of play would suit our squad. I'd like us to go after Emry too, he turned down Newcastle as it's a difficult project in FFP world and the owners look like they will be a disaster in terms of decision making Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 7 hours ago, Adam2003 said: Funnily enough I was just looking at how Vieira did at Nice. Bombed out for losing five in a row… sounds oddly familiar.! It's not just 5 losses in a row. 2021 was an awful year for Smith. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sidcow Posted November 8, 2021 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted November 8, 2021 16 hours ago, tinker said: Joachim Löw? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciggiesnbeer Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 4 minutes ago, villalad21 said: It's not just 5 losses in a row. 2021 was an awful year for Smith. It really was. And you called it at the time I have to say. I disagreed with you in the moment but you may well have been right. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacketspuds Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 5 hours ago, TRO said: I just hope we don't try to penny pinch. The one job to get right, is the manager/Head coach. Absolutely this. We can chuck another £100m at the squad in January and still go down if we try to cut corners with the managerial appointment. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robtaylor200 Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 5 minutes ago, jacketspuds said: Absolutely this. We can chuck another £100m at the squad in January and still go down if we try to cut corners with the managerial appointment. Never been very good at cutting corners, long corners or short corners 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HalfTimePost Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 7 hours ago, Sulberto21 said: Any new manager will have to instil a sense of belonging in to the players. They seem to be better in empty stadiums. I don’t think they can perform to the best of their abilities in front of the crowds. I completely agree. Lockdown saved us and then a full season of it was our best in years. Not a coincidence imo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jono62 Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 If Gerrard is named manager, I'm going to DJ at Villa Park for the announcement, but I absolutely insist on not playing any Phil Collins songs. That should go down well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 30 minutes ago, jacketspuds said: Absolutely this. We can chuck another £100m at the squad in January and still go down if we try to cut corners with the managerial appointment. We won't. We will go all out for a name...unfortunately I don't think even with our spending power and ambitions we are quite the level we need to buy to get one of them. It's a sticky situation now. I hope we have already sounded someone out along with their backroom staff 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 We nearly brought in Henry instead of Smith 3 years ago and I think the owners will have more of a say this time than Purslow which is slightly concerning me that we are going to go for a 'name'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 4 minutes ago, Jono62 said: If Gerrard is named manager, I'm going to DJ at Villa Park for the announcement, but I absolutely insist on not playing any Phil Collins songs. That should go down well. McPhee would want in the air tonight played surely? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa89 Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 Ten hag or favre. None of the other names linked are appealing. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomav84 Posted November 8, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted November 8, 2021 8 hours ago, HKP90 said: Well Gerrard will piss off to Liverpool first chance he gets anyway. keep seeing this and don't get it. that's the way it is for a team like us. emi would piss off to utd first chance he gets ollie would piss of to arsenal if he had a chance konsa, cash, mings, dougie...any of our players will get poached by a bigger name at some point. why does no one say when we're signing these players "nah don't want them...just using us as a stepping stone" for gerrard to be offered the liverpool job, do you not realise that he will probably have to get us into europe before being offered that job? surely that's a good thing? i'd rather that than a manager whose stock is high enough that they could be a catastrophic failure and still get a job after. gerrard knows he needs to give 110% 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Silvers Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 For a club that hasn't said a word and does everything on the hush hush, there seems to be numerous people on social media who know everything that's going on, clowns. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 1 hour ago, CVByrne said: I'd like us to go after Emry too, he turned down Newcastle as it's a difficult project in FFP world and the owners look like they will be a disaster in terms of decision making villarreal are a decent team, might get out of the CL group, might drop in to the EL where Emery seemingly has everyones number, despite them doing not a fat lot in the league there's still enough footballing reason to stay where he is also think that the media would sharpen their knives for him again and it would royally piss me off, he'd be the arsenal failure thats the only silver lining to gerrard, they'd be lining up to pucker up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 3 minutes ago, tomav84 said: for gerrard to be offered the liverpool job, do you not realise that he will probably have to get us into europe before being offered that job? surely that's a good thing? i'd rather that than a manager whose stock is high enough that they could be a catastrophic failure and still get a job after. gerrard knows he needs to give 110% whilst i agree with the sentiment the danger is that we are a club with owners who will put money in but a top class academy any manager coming here to make a 2 year audition will pick the former over the latter and im not sold on where that could leave us, look at say rodriquez at everton, as soon as ancelotti had gone he wanted out we need a manager that even if he does leave due to being successful after say 2 or 3 years he leaves us with the academy lads looking like the next decade of the club 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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