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I agree about the PL spending power and general attractiveness. But I would prefer it if the club appointed someone who made other clubs think "Wow, Villa are really smart". Would hate us to appoint a big name just for the sake of it, without ensuring it's a good fit. And after the last couple of seasons "in transition", I'm not sure Villa could handle a newly installed manager jumping ship after five months just because some CL club calls.

He should at least be on the list.

If the next game is in October, does this mean players will jump on the next plane to Dubai like they usually do in their spare time?

I guess the thinking is that because of congestion the Leicester game will probably be played a long time from now, possibly after the World Cup, and Rodgers is unlikely to last that long?

Same with Nakamba and Guilbert I think. If not even a loan to Turkey - what are they supposed to do? The club should address this, it’s ridiculous.

That midfield 3 could work. If SG ever wants to play a midfield 2, the question is if either of Kamara or Dong are good enough passers without Luiz.

He was great under a period when SG was new here. Villa were playing defensively in those games, it suited him better than Gerrard’s later possession experiments.

PSG are the top club in France and expected to win every game. Dortmund are top 4 regulars in Germany and usually runners-up after Bayern. Managing clubs like that, anything under 50 or even 60% win rate is terrible. The fact he got to manage those clubs in the first place says more, IMO.

That was his main objective and he did sell it, job done. But the fact he made a number of dubious football related decisions along the way at Liverpool doesn't fill me with confidence, since he's making football decisions all the time at Villa.

Current odds for next Brighton manager: Kjetil Knutsen 5/1 Ange Postecoglou 6/1 Brendan Rogers 7/1 Bruno Saltor 10/1 Nathan Jones 10/1 Steve Cooper 10/1 Karel Geraerts 12/1 Russell Martin 12/1 Scott Parker 12/1 Maurico Pochettino 14/1 Domenico Tedesco 16/1 Roberto Martinez 16/1 Sean Dyche 16/1 Felice Mazzu 18/1 Chris Wilder 20/1 Marcelo Bielsa 20/1 Thomas Frank 20/1 Roberto De Zerbi 22/1 Thomas Tuchel 25/1 John Terry 33/1 Ole Gunnar Solskjaer 33/1 Nigel Adkins 50/1 Roy Keane 50/1 Alan Curbishley 66/1 Sam Allardyce 66/1 Mike Newell 100/1

Hodgson was given a three-year contract at Liverpool but got sacked after six months so not an obvious success? Benitez was sacked with four years left on his contract, then came Hodgson (and then Dalglish, who was given a three-year contract but sacked within a year). A mess. CP was also behind some odd player transfers like the signing of Joe Cole and he definitely had ideas about how the manager should act. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2010/dec/11/roy-hodgson-liverpool-nesv Purslow got the Chelsea job for his financial and commercial expertise, he was kept away from football issues so his time there was a success.

IT’S HAPPENING

Most likely it’s a draw, they both get sacked and Rodgers comes here while Leicester appoints some trendy bloke from Europe.

Ferguson was sacked by St Mirren.

That’s a logical way of thinking if you believe all managers are more or less equal. If that’s the case, waiting makes sense and success will come in the end. But if there are good and bad managers, it makes more sense to try and make sure you get a good one.

Isn’t getting sacked almost part of growing up as manager?

Lack of silverware isn’t that relevant in Villa’s case? We’re not really in a position to turn down managers because they only finished second in the World Cup or lost their latest UCL final.

What other PL clubs could change manager before the World Cup apart from Chelsea and Brighton? I’d say Southampton, Wolves, Everton, West Ham, Forest and Leicester. There will be many vacancies to fill. Klopp could leave as well but he will most likely stay the season.

That I agree with, wouldn’t want to work under Boehly.

Could be. Also in cases of quick turnarounds, the foundations are usually already there and the squad is just underperforming for some reason. Potter’s first success story at Ostersund involved teaching a bunch of farmers, bricklayers and asylum seekers to play football from scratch, so obviously took more time.

At least better to have been an owner signing than a Tuchel signing at this point?

Hopefully Emery or Lopetegui. Most likely Rodgers.

I can almost hear Villa sell the job to TT. ”Come to us, we’re nowhere near elite!”

It’s also unlikely one of them would come out and deny those details, which is why it’s risk free to write.

So Boehly is panicking and to avoid being left behind he makes a careful long-term commitment?