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This sounds like me being dumped by a girlfriend

This illustrates the stupidity of deciding a manager’s future on a game by game basis. Look at what he’s done during his time at the club. Has he had enough time to make an impression? Is it good enough or clearly going in the right direction? If not, change. You don’t need a certain shocking result to do it, in fact you don’t need an excuse at all.

Maybe Villa can play the long game and finally appoint Potter when he’s sacked by Chelsea.

He’ll have to do a lot of smiling to justify that transfer fee.

Sounds likely and that’s a shame, Rose could have been a good fit for Villa.

Don’t forget Leipzig. That’s three clubs currently in the Champions League now looking for a manager. Tough competition.

Yeah he was more or less appointed by Newcastle when the news leaked out right before Villarreal had some important game, people got angry and the whole thing was called off.

I’d like Emery, but apparently he had problems making himself understood at Arsenal for language reasons. Appoint and give him a translator like Bielsa had? I also wouldn’t mind us appointing Lopetegui.

The current odds for the next Chelsea manager is a nice overview of the market. Graham Potter 1/4 Mauricio Pochettino 9/2 Zinedine Zidane 10/1 Brendan Rodgers 14/1 Diego Simeone 25/1 Jose Mourinho 25/1 Massimiliano Allegri 25/1 Ange Postecoglou 28/1 Roberto Mancini 33/1 Roberto Martinez 33/1 Roger Schmidt 33/1 Thomas Frank 33/1 Gareth Southgate 40/1 Gregg Berhalter 40/1 Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink 40/1 Lucien Favre 40/1 Marcelo Bielsa 40/1 Scott Parker 40/1 Sean Dyche 40/1 Frank Lampard 50/1 Jorge Sampaoli 50/1 Ole Gunnar Solskjaer 50/1 Antonio Conte 66/1 Jesse Marsch 66/1 John Terry 66/1 Emma Hayes 80/1 Chris Wilder 100/1 Mark Hughes 100/1

Or appoint Lopetegui? Europa League winning manager.

The Lukaku signing was probably the low point in Marina’s career but she made more good deals than bad over the years. Boehly’s first window can only be excused if he was drunk all summer.

Considering the current state of Villa, it feels good to be able to laugh at other clubs for a change. Boehly seems to be a complete idiot btw. Sack the DoF and take that role himself, burn 100s of millions on players without a plan of how to use them.

Looks like being manager under Boehly can be quite stressful: ”Chelsea have spent a record £266m in one window to bring in Wesley Fofana, Marc Cucurella, Raheem Sterling, Kalidou Koulibaly, Carney Chukwuemeka and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang among others. That increased the pressure on Tuchel but not all were his signings and there were other instances of the ownership attempting to foist players on him. One example was the case of Anthony Gordon who Tuchel did not want. Boehly’s data analysts had pushed for the Everton midfielder after being impressed by some of his performance metrics. Tuchel came to feel he had too many players to accommodate and not enough he could count on.” https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/sep/07/chelsea-sack-thomas-tuchel-as-manager-after-defeat-at-zagreb-champions-league

I assume you mean GP? Yeah, a Chelsea offer could be the ultimate test of Potter’s character. If he says no at least we can forget tempting him with money.

That leaves Tedescu and Lopetegui without a job. I was thinking highly of Tedescu before but maybe he isn’t quite ready. Lopetegui on the other hand, why not? Maybe not british enough.

Villa must get a manager who wants to make a statement here, someone with the intention of building something. Tuchel wouldn’t be a good fit at this point and neither would Poch. They would be constantly checking their messages to see if a better offer comes up. You don’t want a manager who feels he’s bigger than the club.

It does look very much like we’ll end up with Rodgers. A Rodgers who apparently believes he belongs at a CL club, so could be disappointed and depressed already on arrival

Potter wouldn’t be a good fit at Chelsea though, as he would need to show instant results and his thing is more the long build. My guess is he sees that as well and says no thanks.

Of course they will speak to Potter, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he turned them down.

But by then, Potter had already changed Brighton’s whole way of playing completely. Turned them from a traditional long ball team to a possession based one. After such a big overhaul it took time for results to pick up, but the changes were there to see almost immediately.

My predictions from Tuesday about the Arsenal and City games and the following reactions holds up well so far. If the 4-0 becomes reality as well I’ll take up betting again.

Deciding a manager’s future on a game by game basis isn’t really serious. I’d rather look back at what’s been accomplished so far, the general trajectory and look for systematic changes that could be long lasting. I admit I wanted to give SG more time at the end of last season, give him the summer and another window, in the hope more time on the training pitch could perhaps make a real difference. When that turned out not to be the case, he’d had his chances in my book. Every week he stays now only delays the inevitable and makes things worse. Yesterday was a fine performance, in line with Villa’s recent tendency to perform better against the top sides (last season Liverpool at home, both Man City games and Spurs at home). The difference this time was we managed to not only perform but also get a point. This proves our team is relatively capable! A good manager could do interesting things with it.

Against them we tried to control the game but we can’t break teams down. Villa once again performed better against the top clubs, with focus on staying tight and counter.

I doubt that’s what he’s after, but I’m not sure him owning a small share will make much difference either. Purslow is very rich. He certainly doesn’t need the Villa job for financial reasons and if his shares lost all their value it wouldn’t hurt him much. He’s at Villa because it’s an opportunity for him as a football fan to be involved with football on a high level, meet famous players, and maybe as a bonus be seen and talked about in the media. What he adds to the table is financial expertise.

When you think about Liverpool these days it feels like a club managed with modern ideas. But when Gerrard was playing, they were managed by people like Benitez, Hodgson and Dalglish. Since Gerrard never changed clubs that’s where his ideas about football come from, Klopp is a very different era.