General Next Manager Topic?? (everything other than Lambert)

[Ponky]

Gazton is Barry Bannan !

[villarich1982]

Can I ask an honest question in the hope of getting an honest answer? What is exactly attractive about the Villa job at this moment in time?

Are you actually flippin serious?!! :x

Engage your brain there for a minute and you will realise that we are in the top 30 biggest clubs in world football both by revenue and wages.

In England we have the 2 Manchester Clubs, 3 London Clubs and Liverpool who are ahead of us.

Outside of England the top 4 in Spain, the top 3 in Germany the top 4-5 in Italy and the top 2-3 in France.

The Villa job is a massive job in club football. We just need our board to sell it right.

But what players have we got Given, Hutton, Dunne, Collins, Warnock, Ireland, Nzogbia, Makoun, Gabby & Bent. The majority of people on here want the back 4 gone so that leaves us with Given, Ireland, Nzogbia, Makoun, Gabby & Bent and a few kids. Ive no doubting that the villa job is a huge job but we are in right trouble of going down at the minute without an overhaul of the squad, we simply have not got the quality we used to have. Its not so long ago we had a back line with Mellberg Laursen Bouma. A midfield with Young Barry Petrov Milner. What have we got at the moment?

Given, Hutton, Dunne, Collins, Warnock, Ireland, Nzogbia, Makoun, Gabby & Bent…….All of these players are internationals and would all pick up contracts at Premiership clubs.

Any decent manager should relish the chance to work with our squad of players. Get the best out of the ones he thinks he can work with best and move the rest of them on.

That's absolute bullshit! You honestly think that another Premiership club would actually pay Villa hard cash for the services of Alan Hutton??? You've been out in the sun way too long today.

[CI]

Any idea who we're in for now Gazton? Any hints or clues?

Nope, nothing.

And, just in the interests of full disclosure, I am unlikely to have any more info until July.

Did you mean June ?

[Folski]

Can I ask an honest question in the hope of getting an honest answer? What is exactly attractive about the Villa job at this moment in time?

Are you actually flippin serious?!! :x

Engage your brain there for a minute and you will realise that we are in the top 30 biggest clubs in world football both by revenue and wages.

In England we have the 2 Manchester Clubs, 3 London Clubs and Liverpool who are ahead of us.

Outside of England the top 4 in Spain, the top 3 in Germany the top 4-5 in Italy and the top 2-3 in France.

The Villa job is a massive job in club football. We just need our board to sell it right.

But what players have we got Given, Hutton, Dunne, Collins, Warnock, Ireland, Nzogbia, Makoun, Gabby & Bent. The majority of people on here want the back 4 gone so that leaves us with Given, Ireland, Nzogbia, Makoun, Gabby & Bent and a few kids. Ive no doubting that the villa job is a huge job but we are in right trouble of going down at the minute without an overhaul of the squad, we simply have not got the quality we used to have. Its not so long ago we had a back line with Mellberg Laursen Bouma. A midfield with Young Barry Petrov Milner. What have we got at the moment?

Given, Hutton, Dunne, Collins, Warnock, Ireland, Nzogbia, Makoun, Gabby & Bent…….All of these players are internationals and would all pick up contracts at Premiership clubs.

Any decent manager should relish the chance to work with our squad of players. Get the best out of the ones he thinks he can work with best and move the rest of them on.

That is ten players the rest are a bunch of kids. Some admittedly I rate but the majority arent Premiership Players.

[jim]

Michael Laudrup :!:

Twice you've said that now! is it a joke?

I have already answered that :winkold:

I have no idea if he has been interviewed but the name has been mentioned, not sure if this interest is from us or if he has thrown his hat into the ring.

[steve-67]

Great post Gazton. Any information is great. Fans crave the stuff.

[260582]

Michael Laudrup :!:

Twice you've said that now! is it a joke?

I have already answered that :winkold:

I have no idea if he has been interviewed but the name has been mentioned, not sure if this interest is from us or if he has thrown his hat into the ring.

So it's a maybe not an it is

[bannedfromHandV]

This discussion is about people being ITK or not. I believe people who were ITK on OGS merely jumped the gun and it bit them on the ass in the last minute. That doesn't mean they made stuff up leading up to that point. And that's the key for me. They are still privvy to ITK stuff. They just should've held off on the '100% done' posts while it was still only 'highly likely'.

Spot on BOF, even Gazton was sure it was OGS....He also still thought it would be him when the papers were saying he is staying at Molde because he didn't want to move his family.

So something must have been said to all these ITK's to make them sure he was coming to Villa.

If I may fight my corner for a moment..

Personally, I hate the term "ITK". I don't claim to be "in the know". What I can say, with confidence, is that I hear stories from someone very much at the heart of AVFC. When this person tells me something, I make a very conscious decision to remove the emotion from what this person is telling me and then, if appropriate, report as much fact as possible to VT.

My history of these kinds of stories is, if I may say so, pretty strong. I don't remember exactly how much I've told VT but this person was spot on about the timing of Richard Dunne and Stephen Ireland signing for AVFC. He was spot on, so I said "Welcome Richard", and he was also spot on about the delay to RD signing on deadline day. When all around us were wringing their hands about the registration forms being delayed, he was absolutely confident that it was done on time and that was borne out.

With the Stephen Ireland deal, I told VT "Welcome Stephen" when it was complete and confirmed hours before it was made official. I was confident enough to do this because he rang me and physically put SI on the phone to me.

With all the upheaval of Gerard Houllier, I was privy to a lot of the internal strife. I took as much of the emotion out of it as possible and report back. Any emotion I added in was my own, and I was feeling a lot of different emotions about the whole Houllier situation.

With Darren Bent's signing, I heard about it after MYSTERYMAN (I think) but there are 2 people on this board who I met for a pint and to watch a match on TV. Tony and Paul will vouch for me, they knew about DB signing before it was even a sniff of a news story.

As for OGS, I was told that it was done. My source (another phrase I hate) had been told it was done. For me to come on here and say "Welcome Ole" wasn't a tough decision given the track record of this guy's information.

For one reason or another, it didn't work out. I don't yet know why, I will hopefully find out eventually what happened. If it's appropriate, I'll pass on that information too.

There's been many times I have heard news and chosen not to tell VT about it. We don't need to know it, and putting it into the public domain would do a lot more harm than good. It would also lead a very definite trail back to the source of the information, so I keep it to myself. That will continue, as will any bits of relevant news that I pass on.

Am I embarrassed about being wrong? Not in the slightest. I give info on here in good faith. What anybody does after that info, or how they choose to bet their money based on what some bloke on the internet says, is up to them.

If people don't want to believe me, that's their right. I absolutely accept that "some bloke on the internet" is more likely to be a spoofer than a genuine conduit of information. Just don't call me a liar, I don't like that

I don't really think you need to justify your posts Gazton.

This place would be pretty boring if we all had to justify the bollocks that gets written on here, i can think of many posters who have more to answer for than you chief.

Keep up the good work and pls don't stop posting snippets of info now that a few tossers are pissed that they've lost a few quid at the bookies.

[SikhInTrinity]

Laudrup and Laursen would be just wow!!!

[jim]

Michael Laudrup :!:

Twice you've said that now! is it a joke?

I have already answered that :winkold:

I have no idea if he has been interviewed but the name has been mentioned, not sure if this interest is from us or if he has thrown his hat into the ring.

So it's a maybe not an it is

Correct, but I never said it was!

[briny_ear]

I do hope we don't spend the rest of out lives obsessing over why Ole Gunnar Solskjaer didn't come to Villa. I suppose it might have the benefit of taking up a bit of the space currently reserved for "why everything bad happening at the club is MON's fault" but, personally, I don''t care and would gain absolutely nothing from finding out.

Am I alone in this?

[JulieB]

I do hope we don't spend the rest of out lives obsessing over why Ole Gunnar Solskjaer didn't come to Villa. I suppose it might have the benefit of taking up a bit of the space currently reserved for "why everything bad happening at the club is MON's fault" but, personally, I don''t care and would gain absolutely nothing from finding out.

Am I alone in this?

Didn't someone mention some ridiculous amount of dosh changing hands earlier .......I would surmise possibly under the dinner table in a plain brown envelope

Nuff said as far as I'm concerned.

Isn't that how half the world works these days?

[pacbuddies]

WBA getting Rangnick!

Decent manager

His wikipedia page says he is currently "king of the pixies".

Thank **** you cleared that one up. I thought it was some sort of weird anagram and I have been going crazy trying to work it out!

[islingtonclaret]

Would go for Laudrup. Doubt we'll attract him.

Thanks for update Gazton, takes some balls to face the VT grumps.

[islingtonclaret]

WBA getting Rangnick!

Decent manager

His wikipedia page says he is currently "king of the pixies".

Thank **** you cleared that one up. I thought it was some sort of weird anagram and I have been going crazy trying to work it out!

Just noticed we joined villatalk on the same day. Must have been something shit happening!!

[Ingram85]

Laudrup and Laursen would be just wow!!!

After the OGS collapse this is my new dream appointment, Laudrup with Laursen as no.2 would be worth a go, if it goes tits up then **** it, at least the board tried something new and refreshing.

[CI]

The laudrup shout is a great one

Would he be interested though

[the_eristic]

Michael Laudrup is probably my favorite player, ever. Martin Laursen is probably my favorite modern Villa player. Laudrup x Laursen = Squee^2

[Mantis]

"why everything bad happening at the club is MON's fault"

Nobody actually thinks this though. Just because some people think MON is to blame for some of the problems doesn't mean they think he's to blame for all of them.

[villan_007]

Yes to Laudrup! Where we are as a club, and where he is as a Manager...I think we are a perfect fit. I'd be happy.

And I know it's only wiki but, we coud do with this happening to us.

Laudrup renovated the Brøndby team by letting a large contingent of older and experienced players go, in favour of several new offensive players, and he gave the chance to young talents from the club's youth scheme. To ensure the defensive strength of the team, he hired the proven national team player Morten Wieghorst.

Hope there's truth in the rumour!