Aston Villa Banter Archive May 01 2012 to May 31 2012

30 May 2012 21:18:52
im a norwich fan and to all you villa fans, you can f*** off. lambert is not leaving norwich... end of. we have david mcnally who brought lambo here and he is strong enough to keep him here

You were saying lol

Hi please to meet you didnt know norwich had fans??

Typical small minded fan, cant see the wood for the trees. Of course Lambert could be interested in the AVFC managers job. Challenge, opportunity are all at VP. What is at Norwich? Comfort and wan-ers like you. I wonder just why Lambert would leave Norwich for AVFC? WE might see later today? However I think that AVFC could do better than Lambert. You are not old enough to remember John Bond who never had a good word to say about Villa. The phrase Aston Villa Canaries killer was coined to rile the fans, the same as today. how about a hard boiled egg??

No disrespect to Norwich but Villa are a bigger club

I'm a villa fan and you're a Norwich fan, I wonder which one of us is crying this morning hahahha have it back Norwich fans, what were you saying about lambert loving norwich ha

O dear mr Norwich fan looks like your little club can't keep your big club manager do before you come on our site telling us to f**k off get your facts right so to all you moaners ha ha ha and to all you decent Norwich fans wish you well in search for a new manager

Lol at these Norwich fans, your in deep s**t when we get Lambert, who in turn will probably bring Holt. Back to league one where you belong.

Having been at Norwich on the last day of the season can I just say how brilliant the Norwich fans are. If, and I hope he does, Lambert takes the Villa job, it is because Villa are a top premiership club and should be playing in Europe. The potential is obvious and you can see why it would be an attractive proposition for a manager of Lambert's calibre {Ed007's Note - I keep expecting mini-MON to develop an Irish accent! AV will be the third club he has managed that has also been managed by MON.}

There's no point in having a manager who dosen't want to be at the club. good luck next season

Its fuuny cos he resigned, lol.

BYE BYE back to league 1 you go

You were saying Norwich fan, it seems like its a matter of compo now about 1 to 1.5 mill enough for a club Like Norwich

The compo isn't even required it's a case of Lambert is asking to give a token payment to Norwich so he can bring his assistant and make a bid for holt knowing it will then be accepted as if the player wants to go it'll be done and holt would be a decent 2nd striker and put gabby on thewing with Holman

30 May 2012 18:02:45
It won't be Martinez he's saying at Wigan who next

Yeh staying with bigger club, ha,ha,ha,

30 May 2012 17:45:20
i would much prefer ian holloway to martinez,holloway is a frugal and shrewd manager greatly underated,that can manage a team on shoestring funds and get the best out of players,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,big dave dublin,avfc forever

30 May 2012 16:02:58
Swans fans saying that they are going to get Poyet when Rogers goes to 'Pool. Why is Lerner not in action? Pull your finger out mr Lerner.

29 May 2012 16:10:44
gareth southgate i hope not !

I can only agree once with your post but could I add 25 times to your post?

I still have a feeling that Sven is lurking in the background. He is available, cheap, and willing. If he comes expect Beckham to follow. DB is a very close friend of SGE and he wants to get back into the Prem. In fact he could buy AVFC from lerner. Now theres a thought?

Is not lerner looking for a youing manager!
sure sven does not fit in!

28 May 2012 21:16:47
What are the chances of Gervinho coming in on loan for next year?

First off it depends on the manager and secondly, I highly doubt that we'd sign him on loan.

28 May 2012 18:22:02
If we are lucky Heskey will be our first signing when Phil brown takes over

Like your humour, however, the ridiculous could happen. Lerner & Faulkner are waiting to see who is available after LFC take their pick. Why the ---- are we waiting for others, why dont we get in there and upset LFC?

27 May 2012 12:22:47
Hopefully this will happen next season with either Poyet , Zola or Di Matteo in charge.

1--------------Given----------------

Simpson---Collins---Dunne---Figueroa

Albrighton--Kranjcar--Makoun--N'Zogbia

-----------Bent-----Agbonlahor--------


2----------------Lewis-----------------

Lichaj-----Clark-----Baker-----Stevens

Holman----Ireland----Bannan---Drenthe

-----------Keane------Defoe----------

* and weve also got gardner herd and weimann to come in.

You dont no football Gary Gardner will make it next year,lets hope Collins Dunne N`Zogbia plus a few other past it players are out ,let the new manager buy his players first.

27 May 2012 08:28:28
Just got to work in the city I work at the Midland Hotel and have Seen Poyet in the dining room, apart from having breakfast no idea why he is here. {Ed001's Note - and yet in another post you claimed to live in Germany and support a German team. You have been blocked Mr. Fantasist!}

Well done ED

26 May 2012 11:30:35
zola/clark is the one that fits youth/experience,respect from the players,wont cost anything.sod waiting for other clubs to decide who they want and we take the left overs.get on with it.the transer window will open soon,all the good free agents wont wait for us to get a new manager.hoilett,diame.big club,one of five english clubs to win the european cup,won the double,good god we can go on forever.tired of this s**t already.

25 May 2012 19:06:39
Hey Orrible, 19.00 and nothing. What you got to say?

25 May 2012 13:02:35
Hey Orrible! 13.00 hours and no announcement. Not long too go, and if it doesn't happen non of your posts will ever be believed. You will look like an person for being so sure. However I am prepared to wait and see before making further comment. What are you going to call yourself in future?

Why are you talking to yourself?

Not talking to oneself , challengeing this person from Brighton. Perhaps its you?

Poyet will be going to Birmingham city, Hougton to West brom Bruce to Villa

Brighton far bigger than birmingham so he wont be going there

25 May 2012 12:06:29
A rank outsider. Young , with something to prove,last match with his club Tomorrow.
We are giving him a blank page to create. I think all will be taken back by this appointment and a lot of people will look extremely pathetic with there comments. R.L. means business this time.

I actually want poyet he's had European experience scouted for Chelsea and brought Brighton a very poor team from the 2nd division to the championship and nearly got into the playoffs if he can do that with mediocre players what else can he do and will also attract stars thru his stature as a player and his history at the bridge why not ??

24 May 2012 21:30:27
Hi Villians, Brighton Oracle here! As stated earlier in the week Mr Poyet will be announced your new boss tomorrow. He will bring with him Tarrico and possibly Vincente will be brought in as well. I hope the Vincente bit is wrong as he would be useful for us seagulls. He's now injury free and was a world apart from anything I have ever seen in a Brighton shirt. You may get two Quality seasons out of the Spaniard. Be patient in the midlands... You are getting a quality young manager and he will defo put bums on seats!!

Hi there Orrible. Much as I would enjoy your statements coming true, it is amazing that you can have this sort of positivity about a matter that is as yet not in the public playground. It has not yet been commented on by the observers at VP that they have seen Poyet at VP. Indeed, not even SLY, who know everything, have seen Poyet at VP. WE are all waiting to see who arrives, but your certainty seems more than a little extreme.

23 May 2012 10:51:41
Hesky (at last), Cueller (shame), Guzan(expected) off the wage bill. Nearly £10,000,000 annually off the wage bill.

Are you in accounts at the villa how do u know it's ten mill another unreliable source I bet I were one of the fans who said Mcarthy was gonna be manager it's poyet I s*** u not

You dont need to be in accounts, just be able to count and do simple maths.
£10,000,000 divided by 52 = £192,307.
Now divide by 3(players) = £64,102 each. It seems common knowledge that Ivanhoe was on £65,000, Cuellar £65,000, and Guzen would have been somewhere similar. Approx £10m pa. Not 100% exact but pretty close!

So you are in management at VP. Are you in the legal part compiling contracts?
S--- u not. We are all guessing and dreaming about our next target! THe estimate of £10m is quite accurate.

I'm not being funny but the only wage you got right was Heskey's as Cuellar wouldn't move to rangers last summer cause they wouldnt match his 45k pw wages and Guzan was released as he was on 40k pw and there getting Kelo for 2k pw to replace him which gives a total of 7.8m a year not 10m

So you are in accounts at VP. Or are you supposing your figures to be exact. AS an estimate my £10m was , as they say, merely a guide line. Which ever is correct, it is an awful lot of money that Lerner is saving.

I'm not being funny but the only wage you got right was Heskey's as Cuellar wouldn't move to rangers last summer cause they wouldnt match his 45k pw wages and Guzan was released as he was on 40k pw and there getting Kelo for 2k pw to replace him which gives a total of 7.8m a year not 10m
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These figures were widely reported inthe news over the last year therefore must not be wide from the mark giving a total of 7.8m

22 May 2012 07:22:02
ogs,laursen,schemical,cowans & macdonald dream team for villa ?????

That would be great

Wake up my friend. There is no chance of this happening much as we would like to see it happen.

21 May 2012 09:14:23
rob di matteo anyone

Sacked from Baggies, but is proving himself at the Pensioners.( The real Nickname of Chelsea!) I wouldn't say no.

Considering we all want attacking football i'd say no he is mr counter attack.... i think you need to decide what you want attacking football or sit back and hope we can score on the break i mean come on.....

19 May 2012 15:21:40
think the aston vila fans need to read what ogs has said before saying he has turned villa down no 1 has turned the job down.Villa fans will u start getting behind the club was got the ginger crap out now its time to start looking at us moving forward and get in the real world we dont have loads of money but if villa spend like newcastle have then it looks like it will end in a good season now stop moaning and get behind everyone at the club

Iv posted that on the rumour page u make sense would love him down villa park ;)))

18 May 2012 21:06:54
The deal is not done for OGS. It's an interview process at the moment and there are two other candidates to be interviewed next week. Do not expect to hear a manager named until at least the end of next week.

Gary Megson and Glen Roeder?

Glen roeder is already employed by villa and is happy in his role he will not be making a return to management

I'm not saying that the deal is done but given the fact that Lurner has gone back to the states already I would say that things have prgressed

Lerner has gone home as he doesn't enjoy the situation of being blasted by fans that abuse him and his staff. In the States no one knows about Aston Villa and he gets a quiet life. What would you choose?

18 May 2012 11:48:39
Im From Molde in Norway. I can comfirm that Solskjær was not present on the trainingground today.

I understand that he is one of the candidates for the job, but nothing has been agreed yet. He have alot of offers in England. And have several times said that he is staying in Norway for a long time, But Aston Villa is such a BIG club. I Guess he want this jobb. If you get him, you will get a very talented manager. GREAT COACH.

Lets Hope so

Can you back your opinion up please not that i doubt it

17 May 2012 00:48:28
its a sad state of affairs when bluenoses obviously envious of aston villas premier league status and far superior fans and players,decide to post on the villa site.enjoy the championship bluenoses cos ur gonna be there for a few more seasons................p.s.i heard the ginger whinger mc cretin wants to go back to u lot...........a match made in heaven lmao

16 May 2012 21:22:18
I've heard that Gary Megson is high on the list of candidates?

Paul Faulkner said;

"We want to find someone to reinvigorate the club,"

"We want someone to bring some vibrancy back to Villa. That's what we need and that's what we're going to get. A disaster would have been getting relegated but this was too close for comfort."


Well; Megson ticks all the right boxes-
1) Dynamic.
2) Likes to play fluent "Brazilian Style" football.
3) Available for work (no compensation to pay).
4) Lives in the area (no relocation costs).

You can forget McCarthy, Its Gary Megson just wait and see!

Most ridiculous thing I have ever heard

Yet another loser, we need a winner as the new manager not someone like, Megson, Bruce, McCarthy.

Bruce would be a decent manager he built a decent squad at sunderland and sold players on for profit
He also guided them to mid table finishes not a bad choice!!

I'd like to see Poyet or ole guna Soljsar but I'd be happy with Bruce as i know he'd be good in the transfer window and improve the squad not buying donkey's like Heskey,Beye,N'zogbia, Hutton

Sorry mate your wrong on bruce he is tactically inept,sunderland won two home games in the whole of 2011.

Bruce has no class and just makes excuses after excuses for his failings.He still moans about his safc departure even now.

We have been waiting for a left back at sunderland for 3 years now he is clueless.O,Neil will no doubt get us out of the mess we are in now.

Bruce signed some shockers last summer.

Mcleish I better than bruce and so is villa.

Yea and faulkner said he wants a young , vibrant manager! gary megson no way!

16 May 2012 17:30:15
Personally I fell like we could expierence quite a few changes, obviously with the new manager coming in. So here is what I think may happen:

Out:
Heskey (His contract isn't being renewed, which some fans will be happy about but I think that he does have a role).
Beye (Already Gone so his funds may be useful).
*Makoun (Possible transfer, may even go out on loan again).
*Warnock (Possible transfer, had a poor season but the new manager may no sell him).
*Bent (Possible transfer, injured for half the season, he's 28 and cost 18-24 million would be happy to get most of the money back).

In:
Martin Olsson (3-5 million as Blackburn went down we have a chance).
Brett Holman (On a free, good bit of business hopefully, but I haven't seen much of him).
*Guthrie (Unsure about the details but it could be possible).

Who else I would like to join:
Keane (A loan would do but when he came to AV he really did do well).
Junior Hoilett (Described by many Blackburn fans as the only good thing about there season).
Keane (A loan would do but when he came to AV he really did do well).Or Yakubu did well if Bent went there would be a space for him.

Beye was released, uve mentioned keane twice and martin olsson, really?

Sorry about the Keane and the Beye incident but personally feel that Olsson and Hoilett were quite good this year. Can, you really say that Warnock had a great campaign. Lets remember that last summer we basically tried to balance the books, so I wouldn't be shocked if the same happend again. Anyway Olsson would do better at left back than Warnock!

16 May 2012 16:43:56
Aston Villa are interested in Spartak Moscow’s Artem Dzyuba. The 23-year-old, 6ft 4in striker is quick and can also play on the wing.

Exellent player cant see it though

16 May 2012 16:25:24
Poyet, Lambert, Houghton, Rodgers or even Hughes
For Villa's next manager

It wont be McCarthy, Benitez,Raneri or Martinez as all are mediocore managers which Villa dont want

Remember the statement a young ambitious manager who can drive the club onto challenging for european football again where we belong

Benitez,mediocore? What planet do you come from? We could only dream of having him!

16 May 2012 13:46:16
I don't know where all this s**t comes from? Mick McCarthy 100% no the board will not talk to him. Steve Bruce 100% no they won't talk to him either. I love the speculation and the hype. But to many people Believe there own rubbish that's printed. So all be patient I think were in for a pleasant surprise. The board can't afford to get it wrong. Us villa fans have already voted with there feet this season and season ticket sales are well down, Lerner needs the backing of the fans and so does his accountant so here's to the right man coming in I still think AVB and Ray Wilkins would be a great shout but here's one to mull over .. Big Kev and Martin larsson just a thought AJ

16 May 2012 01:03:28
i personally think martinez will be appointed or maybe lambert.the former would be my preference,a great job done with norwich,lets hope that lerner and co have learned from their last mistake and let them remember its the fans who count..............dublin villa fan this past 40 yrs

Villa are not big enough for Martinez apparently their chairman has the club at the same level as West Brom

15 May 2012 21:32:19
Poyet to be named Boss tomorrow with Tarrico as his assistant. Comp being finalised tonight with Bloom ( BRIGHTON chairman).

Wrong again!!!!

15 May 2012 13:45:14
I hear Chris hughton is highly regarded. With Trevor Francis as Director of Football

Trevor Francis are you serious? You do know he had a heart bypass op recently right?

14 May 2012 21:21:57
Ed heard any news on our new manager? Thanks {Ed003's Note - Not a squeak yet}

15 May 2012 08:11:44
what about brendan rodgers. he would be perfect as swansea play the entertaing football we craved last season!

14 May 2012 20:13:29
Randy Lerner is hoping to appoint his next manager within the next two weeks.

It's believed Lambert is top of his list and Villa are set to offer Norwich City £10million for the services of Lambert.

Also Lambert is going to be offered a two year contract worth £2million season plus £30million to spend in this summers transfer window.

It's also rumored that Sven-Göran Eriksson will be plan B if they fail to persuade Lambert to join.

I wish I knew how people get this rubbish. Who the hell knows what Lerner is going to do when he doesn't even know?

Sven has been waiting for the Villa post to become available since he was conned by the fake arab sheik. If he comes then expect Beckham to be in claret & blue within a week. If Sven does arrive we will have the best away record in the league. It has been suggested that he likes to play away from home!

14 May 2012 19:19:32
Next manager will either be Rogers, claudio ranieri or fabs capello! Wants to stay managing in England! Would want backing in the transfer market though. After all the cut backs with cuellar and heskey certain to leave as well with others likely to follow(maybe collins, warnock) surely we can afford to bring in some decent players! Bring back milner!

14 May 2012 18:49:02
So glad mcimbecile has gone Roberto Martinez or di Matteo come on Lerner make te right decision and give the new manager enough money to build his own team Utv

14 May 2012 17:34:49
Celtic Football club Manager Neil Lennon is joint fav with martinez at 5/1 with ladbrooks to take over

Hope not just cause he can win the league in a 2 horse race doesnt mean he can manage in the prem

14 May 2012 16:59:03
yesssss hes gone !!!!!!!!!!!!!


COME ON U VILLA !!!!!!!!!!!!

14 May 2012 16:43:09
Right so mc cleish is gone thank god,Will it be Rafa,Martinez,Lambert,personally i wouldnt want poyet he hasnt proven himself yet in the big league, i think the same for lambert i think the 2nd season will be a bit diffrent for him,rafa would want a bag of money so id say that would rule him out, so that leaves us with martinez he has done year in year out with wigan on a small budget with HALF decant players that he knows how to get the best out off TO YOU MCLEISH ITS CALLED MAN MANAGEMENT YOU FOOL,You nearly braught us down,

Poyet and lambert have proven they can manage well and take the pressure and both have a good style of football.
Which under Martinez i dont believe we'll achieve as he's just another mediocore manager with a mediocore style of football who just manages to survive in the prem give the job to a young hungry manager with a good style of attacking football/counter attacking football which we expect at villa

14 May 2012 16:20:41
Remember that banner ,whos your next messiah,well whos yours. What goes around comes around. Championship for villa next year.

You must have posted this before you heard Mccleish was sacked. We could have stevie wonder as manager and still stay up next season.

League one for the noses

Why are the them from the dark side of the city on our site again? the good news for villa is that they can have their man back as they are certain to lose hughton. the bad news for them is that big eck will be back to st andrews.

Dark side. When nufc got relegated and we were going through ALOT of managers you took the p¤ss glad to see you can take it on the chin lol. Lambert,martinez. More like bruce or mccarthy lets all laugh at vill

14 May 2012 15:45:04
"Come in Agent Bruce, do you read me? We have a new assignment. Codename: Operation F*** Villa... Over."

14 May 2012 13:22:07
my list of possible next manager
1 Steve Bruce
2 Sam Allardyce (if WHU dont get promoted)
3 Mick McCarthy
4 Neill Lennon
5 Roy Keane
6 Alan Shearer
7 Lee Clark
8 Greame Souness
9 Kevin Keegan
10 Stuart Pearce

Which one is your name? A lot of failures, some who took over existing sides, and some who would severely damage AVFC.

Hi Steve, is this your job application?

Its just a bit of fun really im that desperate to see mcclish out and see anyone else in tbh

14 May 2012 06:53:43
can not belive last game of the season and nothing to play for but still he plays with 7 defenders!!

Mcleish does not have a clue he has to go!!!!!!!

14 May 2012 00:19:15
Having been at Norwich today and just seen McLeish's interview on MOTD, the guy is seriously deluded.

1 The fans were complaining about his performance and frustrated at his lack of tactical ability, plan a, plan a, plan a.
2 It was obvious that he has lost the dressing room, no great performances today other than the mighty Shay !!
3 What negative tactics yet again, we have nothing to lose by going for goals and he plays 7 defenders. Even when we were 2-0 down and QPR were losing he still doesn't change
4 Randy Lerner has the right to waste his money as he sees fit, but if someone at the club reccommended he pay the Blues even a penny to secure McLeish's services they need to be out the door with, if not before, McLeish.

If he is still here next season then I think I spend my season ticket money on betting we get relegated. What odds do you think I'll get, evens ?

Sad but this guy has ruined a great club and needs to, for once, make the right decison and fall on his sword.

13 May 2012 21:11:46
Wolves have told McLeish that they want Barry Bannan + £2m for Karl Henry.

Get this muppet out!

And bring that one in ....please

13 May 2012 20:23:38
scott dann will com to villa from blackburn when window opens

Please no! he is pants.

Heres hoping

13 May 2012 18:35:18
mc leish is getting the chop on tues,poyet to be unveiled soon as new boss,this is fact

FACT actually stands for "For All Clowns To know" LOL

13 May 2012 09:58:57
Have you seen the BBC predictions by lawro

It about sums things up "he likes mcliesh as he is one of football's good guys "
This is a typical presenters view.Andy gray,stab collymore,Alan Brazil.tom Ross ,sir Alex even
He might be a nice guy bit a rubbish manager
Villa fans are not fickle we want what is best for avfc
Lastly does redem himself by saying mctwit will walk rather than be pushed

He may be the nicest chap in the world, but he isn't getting paid more than most fans earn in a lifetime of hard graft to be a nice guy, he getting paid to win games and, presumably, play attractive football to bring in the crowds. Can I please apply for this job as I'm a nice guy and I do not have two relegations on my cv !!

12 May 2012 01:17:01
Speculation that Mcleish has identified 5 players he hopes to bring into 'Villa Park' this summer despite the unknown certainty over his future

Andre Ayew - Marseille
Douglas Teixeira - FC Twente
Mohamed Diame - Wigan
Danny Guthrie - Newcastle
Joseph Di Chiara - FC Krylia (apparently this deal is as good as done, similar to the Brett Holman deal)

The usual suspects are all rumored to be leaving also, Warnock, Heskey, Dunne, Cuellar, Makoun, Delfouneso

10 May 2012 21:31:15
Andre Villas-Boas rumours are gathering pace!
AVB could take over at VP on a 5 year deal with a £30m cheque to rebuild the squad!

Personally, I'd like to see someone like Gerard Houllier take over as Sporting Director to help AVB out a bit with transfers etc..

AVB will not be seen at VP. He doesn't even know where The city of Birmingham is let alone a postal district. Lerner will make his mind up eventually but dont expect a big name. Without a guarantee of huge funding we will struggle to get a quality manager of proven ability.

Gerard Houllier should of come to Villa in the capacity of Director of Football overseeing youth development from the start.

His position should have let the manager have more of a free reign though, this where the DM position has failed in the past

10 May 2012 14:29:42
What level are villa at now? Last season I would say we were bigger than Newcastle etc now I think we are a norwich etc.

One bad season dont put us that low blue nose. enjoy the champ again next season. lets see where we fin next season once mcginger has gone. will be above norwich thats a fact.

some reality.

Villa have the most fickle fans in the league. You rarely if ever sell out villa park yet for a cup game At my clubs ground there was maybe a thousand short of capacity and your fans were singing your grounds too big for you,lol we have a season ticket waiting list. {Ed007's Note - Sounds good for your club, just a pity you never said who they were.}

Can't see Villa ever returning to a top half side again, to many big I ams in the squad Bent is no more an £18 mil player as someone quoted £2 at best I see villa in the bottom 5 again next season, so dream on,No I'm not a Blues fan,

Maybe a WBA fan then?

You might be right maybe we will finish bottom 5 again if McLeish is in charge again, if he goes i think we will improve and hopefully finish 8-11th

10 May 2012 09:38:23
well done to blackpool for keeping the bluenoses where they belong in the championship...........

Now hope they keep the Spammers out

09 May 2012 22:02:52
Tom Ince of Blackpool is being looked at by both Villa and Reading

Tom ince thats rubbish

09 May 2012 21:20:32
This shows the intellect of Small Heath fans, from the bbc website:
‘2114: I'm going to question the wisdom of some Birmingham fans here. Blackpool goalkeeper Matt Gilks has objects thrown at him in protest at the time he is taking over a goal-kick, but that wastes more time. Curious.’
Geniuses!

09 May 2012 00:04:29
a few people are saying we'll have a new sponsor next season - 'Bio-Oil' the cosmetic product.

08 may 2012 08:20:55
massive massive summer this year even bigger then the one we have just gone through mr lerner.

next season we have to be in the top challenging for europa on a limited squad

you need to get the playing staff right
from manager to to youth set up, you know how far you have come by retaining premership survival

no one is going to put up with this next season

take a hint - mcleish out his style is to defensive and will only put us in jepordy next seson if he stays .

Mcleish out his style is to defensive and will only put us in jepordy next seson if he stays
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I wouldn't say McLeish is defensive as that implies Villa are defensivly solid where were not with a clumsy RB a useless LB and both CB's are inconsistant

Mcleish is a neutral manager who does commit to defensive or attacking football,

Least if he was effective with his defensive tactics we'd be strong at the back and able to knick a goal and WIN games.

For me Mcleish just likes to neutralise games being un-effective at either tactics.

NO DRIVE FOR ATTACK!
NO CLUE HOW GAIN ADVANTAGE IN SET PLAYS!
CANT DEFEND SET PLAYS!
CANT DEFEND A LEAD!
AND JUST HOPES TEAMS GET BORED AND SETTLE FOR DRAWS!

07 May 2012 10:29:53
Arsenal fan here,

Just want to say well done to your boys holding of spurs and what a strike by Ciaran Clark haha. Some heroic defending by Given, Dunne, Hutton and the rest. Shame the one goal you did concede was a penalty. Glad your staying up another season and get well soon Petrov.

Paddy

06 May 2012 19:00:48
right now were safe we need to rebuild the club, get AM out and get a manager with premier league experience like rafa b, then get some new player in like wingers, adam johnson, matt jarvis people like them and then a couple of defenders.

up the villa!

Why go for players from a relegated side?
If they were any good they wouldn't be relegated, did you hear what Trevor Brooking said? there is a plan to put into force next season that No player will be allowed to leave a relegated team untill January, Good idea I think, its the players who took the club down and it has to be them to get the club back

Why the hell would he say that, it's ridiculous ^^^

06 may 2012 16:35:38
thats it were safe

04 May 2012 16:54:19
What an awful season. McLeish has to take some of the blame but the main reason is the sheer lack of talent in the squad. Sell 2 of our best players (Young and Downing) then Bent gets injured and then Stan can't play. There is no depth and not enough talent to mount a challenge at the moment, no creativity, no goals and very little desire. Money needs to get spent in the summer if things are to change.

As for Delph, Herd and Collins - simply embarrassing behaviour. Letting everyone associated with the club down unnecessarily is exactly what we don't need!

No the problem is the coaching staff and the purchases made at the start of the season. Hutton and CNZ are attacking players and numb nuts went out and paid £15m for them and stuck them in a defensive formation. McLeish is a tool and this is 100% his fault

CNZ and Hutton are attacking players
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Hasn't CNZ played on the wing all season in his natural position (he's just sh*t)

Hutton is a attacking Right back the position he's played all season (he's just clumsy and gets caught out of position, in a word sh*t)

Hutton is by far the worst player ever at vp. god help us if gingy keeps his job and is let loose with cheque book.

04 May 2012 10:07:32
ok fellow villa fans lets get behind blackpool and keep bluenoses in the championship where they belong..............dublin villa fan

What makes you think you are so safe then

03 May 2012 15:18:55
You lot are funny just wait and see what happens mcleish will go but mick mccarthy will be linked to blues when hughton leaves for the saggies.

Optimistic villan

02 May 2012 20:51:03
Ed any rumours about mcleish leaving.Also any managers linked ?thanks. {Ed003's Note - Nothing at all }

01 May 2012 21:58:39
Hi leicester city fan here, what do you villa fans make of heskey coming to us in the summer? have you heard anything?

01 May 2012 14:45:13
McLeish will be given the backing by the board, this time will have 20million to spend. will he know what to do with it though?

Not sure what is going on
i'm worried.is mctwit staying or going
have we covinced ourselves he is going and mctwit has the last laugh with a summer spend
he can have the last laugh as long as it is a payoff for his contract with hutton and grant in tow

01 May 2012 09:54:45
Mcleish is 4th highest payed manager in prem, on 3.5 mil a season.

01 May 2012 02:11:58
Stephen Ireland is set to leave Villa Park at the end of the season, it's rumored villa have accepted a £3million offer from La Galaxy for the midfield. Some rumour's suggest a switch deal with Robbie Keane could be involved aswell.