messi11 Posted October 5, 2022 Author Share Posted October 5, 2022 Purslow need sanctioning for not going for Potter last season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CVByrne Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 8 hours ago, messi11 said: Purslow need sanctioning for not going for Potter last season. He cost Chelse £21m. There was absolutely no way we were paying that buyout clause 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viivvaa66 Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 22 minutes ago, CVByrne said: He cost Chelse £21m. There was absolutely no way we were paying that buyout clause How much have Gerrard cost us in lower league position, scaring away sponsors and fans by playing really bad football, and losing Luiz for free next summer. If we had gone with Potter, I’m pretty sure we would be close to gotten back the £21mill by now. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Sam3773 Posted October 6, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted October 6, 2022 Hindsight is always 20/20. For every Potter there are 20 Gerrard’s. We need to look forward, not back. I don’t know what that looks like, particularly with our one in one out transfer policy (will the new manager get a ‘war chest’?) Depending on what that looks like, I’d imagine the likes of Poch would be less interested and we’re shopping again in the ‘up and comer’ or ‘old hat’ market. In the former I like Ruben Amorim but he may end up at Wolves. I also like Matthias Jaissle but is he ready? In the latter I can’t get past Brendan Rodgers - knows the league and would likely come over. But would Rodgers also look for that ‘war chest’ guarantee? I look at some of the English leagues for exciting managers ready for the leap, and honestly I really like what Smith is doing at Norwich. We’ve been there though. It didn’t work. It was right to dismiss him and it’s right to not ‘get back with the ex’. For what it’s worth, my opinion probably doesn’t count for much. I was disappointed when we gave Gerrard the keys. It was a big gamble and if we were going for a gamble, I’d have preferred Terry, a coach we nurtured who knew the club have a crack. Of course Terry wasn’t my overall first choice (that was Rodgers), but in the gamble market I’d have preferred him to Steve. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanBalaban Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 9 hours ago, messi11 said: Purslow need sanctioning for not going for Potter last season. Whilst I would have loved Potter here, let's not forget that his Brighton team couldn't score for toffee, and were getting booed by the fans last season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeyAnty Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 11 hours ago, duke313 said: Chelsea paid £21m in compensation to get Potter, he was never coming here. How did Gerard manage to get 6m a year at Villa? No way rangers were close to paying him that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Dale Posted October 6, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted October 6, 2022 12 minutes ago, HeyAnty said: How did Gerard manage to get 6m a year at Villa? No way rangers were close to paying him that. Nepotism. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duke313 Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 17 minutes ago, HeyAnty said: How did Gerard manage to get 6m a year at Villa? No way rangers were close to paying him that. He got £2.5m per year at Rangers, he's on £5m a year with us, and Potter is on £10m a year at Chelsea which is more than Tuchel was on at £8m per year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romavillan Posted October 6, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted October 6, 2022 13 hours ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said: Is Potter on the pitch in full kit and boots likes Terry? " Potter beating Milan ". FFS... It's a whole football team, and I'm sure they've beat European Champions League competetion in the past. They've won it as well. The dramatics I did realise that Chelsea were a football club My point is Potter was managing to coach those players in a system that comfortably beat a very well coached and talented Milan side no bother. I would assume seeing as he's capable of that, that he could have also managed to coach our players to a level where they didn't look like they'd been found in car park and pushed out on the pitch. Something that would improve us at the moment! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveAV1 Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 (edited) I thought that Dean being sacked was probably the right decision, although it was sad to see him go. However the speed at which his successor was brought in, whilst I thought it was efficient and ruthless at the time, finds me asking now, would Dean have been sacked so quickly if SG hadn’t been available which he obviously was albeit still employed by Rangers? Does this mean we can’t, at the moment anyway, secure a suitable replacement, or was the Stevie G project the catalyst to make the change? Did we appoint him or did Purslow appoint us for Stevie G to help him on his quest for the Red Scouse job? Is the tail wagging the dog? Edited October 6, 2022 by DaveAV1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post pas5898 Posted October 6, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted October 6, 2022 (edited) An angry guy on the For The Love of Paul Mcgrath podcast summed it up perfectly for me. Why are we, Aston Villa, with all our resources allowing a manager to "Learn on the Job". It's insane when you look at it that way. If the owners are serious, then we need a serious manager. Edited October 6, 2022 by pas5898 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zhan_Zhuang Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 11 minutes ago, pas5898 said: An angry guy on the For The Love of Paul Mcgrath podact summed it up perfectly for me. Why are we, Aston Villa, with all our resources allowing a manager to "Learn on the Job". It's insane when you look at it that way. If the owners are serious, then we need a serious manager. Yeah it is an odd one for sure... I'm not pro-Gerrard, but whilst he is here I hope he can turn it around. But the sentiment from Purslow and/or NSWE seemed to be to get Gerrard in before someone else did and to hope he was the next best thing! To me this philosophy is a dangerous one, yet I can also see that our squad has improved Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshVilla Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 (edited) 15 minutes ago, pas5898 said: An angry guy on the For The Love of Paul Mcgrath podact summed it up perfectly for me. Why are we, Aston Villa, with all our resources allowing a manager to "Learn on the Job". It's insane when you look at it that way. If the owners are serious, then we need a serious manager. Were also the only club in the league that runs in a way where the managers future is looked at on a game by game basis rather than his whole time at the club. If you were to look at him based on that he has been nothing but a complete failure and should have already been sacked. Edited October 6, 2022 by AshVilla 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viivvaa66 Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 As thing stands the biggest achievement the club can get at the moment is to sack Gerrard. This even when it happens should be celebrated by an open top bus parade trough Birmingham. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talldarkandransome Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 We're gonna end up with Ralf aren't we Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duke313 Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 1 minute ago, Talldarkandransome said: We're gonna end up with Ralf aren't we Or Rodgers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talldarkandransome Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 Just now, duke313 said: Or Rodgers. I've always liked Rodgers. Would prefer Poch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterSw Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 2 hours ago, Zhan_Zhuang said: But the sentiment from Purslow and/or NSWE seemed to be to get Gerrard in before someone else did and to hope he was the next best thing! Ok fair enough but.. he isn't the next best thing so sack him and get someone better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
messi11 Posted October 6, 2022 Author Share Posted October 6, 2022 Kjetil Knutsen Masterclass against Arsenal coming up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 On 05/10/2022 at 17:29, MaVilla said: no need to worry about Poch coming here bois, neither him, or any other top coach would be interested now we are officially on the "self-sustaining" programme. No big spunking of fee's it seems in the future, unless funded by sales. Someone like Poch aint gonna fancy that imo. I too, don't see an easy way out......No manager, with any Nous, will take on this squad. We have a frontline who can't score, to save their lives, is enough to get any sought after manager to baulk at the prospect of joining us....and full backs, who can't defend.( the regulars).....a midfield, who can't create. I think we are now seeing owners who are losing interest in the recruitment programme......Hence the shutters going up in the summer. I think its a case of, do the best with what you have got, and we will revisit it at the seasons end 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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