mykeyb Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 In Jan Lerner finds six million quid, would you prefer he gave it the manager for a couple of players or use it to sack the manager and find a replacement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentVilla Posted December 2, 2011 Moderator Share Posted December 2, 2011 Well despite some 'big' games at VP over the next month ticket sales are obviously not going well judging by the offer they e-mailed out yesterday. Last I looked there were still tickets available for the Utd game on Saturday, I would imagine our match day income has really dropped this season and I can only see it getting worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macandally Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 People can talk about chances and the like as much as they like, but the facts are there, people dont want to watch this dross and the disappearance of the "bright future" has, I would suggest, hit people hard. To answer your question mykeyb, I would sack the manager. The reasons being: His appointment is a disaster waiting to happen, he has to achieve the unthinkable to be accepted here. McLeish is managing to survive game by game, has been since day one, there is no looking to the future. There is a squad here capable of competing in the top 8, but there is no cohesion, desire or gameplan. There is no belief in this squad, the team is set up to not lose, not to win. There is a good nucleas of youth coming through and a manager they can believe in might give us a hint of that bright future. For those reasons, I would see us invest in our footballing future and bring in Lambert, Rogers or someone of that ilk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeps Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 In Jan Lerner finds six million quid, would you prefer he gave it the manager for a couple of players or use it to sack the manager and find a replacement. New manager. Simples. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacketspuds Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 It's about ambition. Sunderland have a shocker and replace Bruce with MON. Now I know a few people on here dislike MON but he is head and shoulders above Bruce. We lose GH and replace him with McLeish, and paid for the privilege. It's shit that our club could not attract any of the available managers, Hughes & Benitez to name just two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overdubber Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 Finding a manager to get the best of what we have for a squad will be difficult at best, and there are really no signs of any money being made available to buy the kind of player a new manager may want. So seems we will be stuck in this for some time to come. AMC is possibly the best man for the situation given. Just seems such a shame we show no desire to go forwards and actually take the game to an opposition side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 It's shit that our club could not attract any of the available managers, Hughes & Benitez to name just two. :? I think it's fairly common knowledge that Leslie wanted the Villa job. Lerner did not want him, for some rather bizzare reason. Didn't want Benny Tez, so glad he's not here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 In Jan Lerner finds six million quid, would you prefer he gave it the manager for a couple of players or use it to sack the manager and find a replacement. Players for me. Swimming against the VT tide I know, but I actually think Eck is a decent manager and given the right backing could make a good go of it here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC-Prideofbrum Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 New manager group as well .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted December 2, 2011 Author Share Posted December 2, 2011 Would not actually trust Mcleish to spend the money well Looking at the signings he has made only one decent one and that was a no brainer So for me I'd spend the dosh on getting rid and appointing someone else and given that Lerner would want someone unemployed (cheap), available (cheap) and with premier experience it would have to be Hughes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilchard Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 I think it's fairly common knowledge that Leslie wanted the Villa job. Lerner did not want him, for some rather bizzare reason. Is it, though? His agent, who likes to talk, never said anything about it and he quit Fulham for a team as he wanted one to match his his ambitions. We were looking to sell our best two players last season and not replace them with like for like quality. Why would he think Villa were any different to Fulham? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDrums Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 Apparently Lerner didn't like the way Hughes walked out on Fulham, so he then went and tapped up the relegated manager of our local rivals. That makes sense. Clueless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NowDoINotLikeThat Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 Phil Brown >>> McCrap That is the caliber of manager we currently have. Whilst the likes of Sunderland were looking at MON and Mark Hughes As we in the summer we're looking at crap managers like Martinez , McLaren & bloody McCrap. McCrap weren't even cheap and we tapped him up. UTTER JOKE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morley_crosses_to_Withe Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 I don't trust McWordRemoved to spend money wisely and neither do I trust him to get us out of the shit we're going to find ourselves in come January. We're ****, basically! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDrums Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 You know how it will end on Saturday already. "Alex McLeish urges his players to turn up the heat against the Red Devils" He said something very much like that before Spurs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 This is one of the things that really annoys me about him - his lies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDrums Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 He really does just constantly talk bollocks. You can also predict his post match excuses "We can't conceed goals like that in the Premier League", "They were great on the training pitch", "We took it to them" with something like 36% posession. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshVilla Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 Apparently Lerner didn't like the way Hughes walked out on Fulham, so he then went and tapped up the relegated manager of our local rivals. That makes sense. Clueless. More like Hughes isnt a yes man and would want money to spend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 He really does just constantly talk bollocks. You can also predict his post match excuses "We can't conceed goals like that in the Premier League", "They were great on the training pitch", "We took it to them" with something like 36% posession."We were great for the first five minutes of the second half". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyp102 Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 I think every manager always some BS to build up the team etc...But some of McLeish's comments are just utter crap.....the best after the spurs game... "we really had enough chances to get something from the game" news to me, if adebayor had taken all his chances alone he would've had 6 goals, whereas I can only remember heskey having one chance (which he tried to pass to Bent) and possibly Bent having a half chance. Hardly enough to saying we could have got something... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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