So just who’s the favourite now?
I don’t know….but that doesn’t make for much of a post though. It’s all gone a little quiet after the Solksjaer incident, and since then I’ve heard numerous names mentioned. The talk is that Randy is trying to make things happen, and I quite like the fact that we’re not hearing much. This is how it should have been with the Solksjaer pursuit, and we might not hear anything until right before the new man is announced. Annoying for us glued to our laptops, but at least it seems the board are trying to get this one right.
Looking at the latest odds (not that they mean anything in truth) it seems they haven’t got much of an inking either. Here are the latest on Skybet, and as you can see there are a whole host of names relatively short priced.
Roberto Martinez 3/1
Paul Lambert 3/1
Rafael Benitez 6/1
Gus Poyet 6/1
Gary McAllister 8/1
Simon Grayson 11/1
Alan Curbishley 11/1
Roberto Di Matteo 12/1
Glen Hoddle 12/1
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer 16/1
Kevin MacDonald 16/1
Domingos Paciencia 20/1
Andre Villas Boas 25/1
Ian Holloway 25/1
Some of these I like, some I hate and some I just couldn’t see happening. Martinez and Lambert have been up there for most of this process, but as I type this a photo has surfaced of Martinez and Liverpool owner John Henry in Miami so who knows that might be one off the list soon enough.
Lambert has appeared to say no without really saying no, but if he does and Martinez does indeed take the Liverpool job it leaves us in an interesting position, and I hope we don’t go for a safer option. Poyet would still appeal to many, myself included and while I’m not too familiar with names like Paciencia, I’d still take him over a lot of the other names on the list. Lots of talk of money coming in for Benitez, and his odds have tumbled the last day or so. As we’ve seen (Mick McCarthy) this might mean very little, and I’m not sure how I’d feel if we were to plump for him. He is a bigger name, and after supposedly turning us down due to lack of finances last year it might be a positive sign that Randy will get the chequebook out once again.
I really can’t figure out who we’re going to go for, and going by our last two appointments there might be a few surprises yet.
Let’s hope it’s a pleasant one this time around.
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Aint no favourite, nobody wants it… so sad all you bed sheets and crayons fans have put a few managers off. Then you all talk about how Ole didn’t turn the job down.. DOH!!!
Of course he did, as if an owner would be chartering jets just to have a cosy little chat and not offer him the job. HOW STUPID ARE YOU. Blatantly obvious your clubs financial constraints have led to him being offered chump change to keep your club in the league and rightfully Ole decides it’s family reasons! if it was family motivated then why even bother speaking about it. The moment he gets a realistic offer from a premier club with ambition he will be over here like a shot!
Martinez win percentage is 27% ha ha you can have him, if not Southgate, Sick Mick, Mr Potato Head or another loser.
Cuellar got it spot on.
BIG CLUB MY BACKSIDE!!
How’s the championship working out for you mate?
That’s it, he gives us an essay on our failings, and the one sentence Jack provides is all the comeback we need.
I think that the “vibrant” term is going to come back and bite someone in the bottom.
All the top half dozen candidates have one thing in common – anyone notice?
They buy experience, at their level in the food chain,agreed, but – they buy.
They don’t nurture nor do they have a history of developing their own players. Villa’s next manager, if young and ‘vibrant’, will have to be allowed time to develop players or perhaps buy in very cheaply from lower leagues.
If the Lerner clawback continues (and having just one year of it is meaningless – it is obviously a longterm fixture now) – the new manager will not be a chequebook waver.
Which rules out most of the bookie favourites.imo.
It was an interesting term of phrase, and one most of us wanted to hear at the time. I think they probably looks at OGS, Martinez and Lambert and figured/hoped we’d get one of them, interesting to see what happens now.
Yep good point mate, that’s why I can’t really see Benitez, even though his odds are coming down. If it does it might be a positive sign that we do have money so that’s good, because I can’t see him coming if we’re in a similar position to last year.
Still think it will be a younger manager, maybe Poyet if we can’t get one of the others.
LMFAO!!!! A Small heath fan on here DOH!!!!!, go bk to the fizzy pop boards and njoy barnsley nxt season …… KRD Till the end of the May….. UTV
Whoever we get it will still be in the Premiership so I would suggest a significantly bigger and better club than yours.
WELL DONE BACKPOOL!!!!!!!!!!!! KRD
Well Gus Poyat Garry Mc another useless would;nt even give them an interview.
I’m a United fan you fooooookin tools!!!
And before you start I was born and raised in Manchester and have worked in your city for the last 5 years… and all these midlanders are right you lot really do live on cloud cuckoo!!!
Oh and I am a season ticket holder and was there on OGS’s amazing night in Barca. Been there done it living the dream.
You lot sound like them scousers bleating about the good old days, football has changed since your fluke a LONG LONG time ago. Why cant you plonkers accept that you are just another mediocre club!
Wow! first time on hear, a ‘utd supporter’ (fair play if he has truly followed them) is that distressed he has to talk about AVFC. He obviously realises City are going to be top dogs for a long time and it makes him feel better slagging off other clubs. Bet he will drop his ST very quickly when UTD fail to win anything over the next decade. How funny is that the sad tooooooool. (Money is on him being a nose in real life).
There are United fans in Manchester.
To that Bluenose at the top. What’s funny isn’t people who can’t spell, I sympathise with them, it’s people who deliberately spell and employ poor grammar in order to sound more of a geeza. ‘Ain’t you got no betta way of tryin to fit in you Danny Dyer aping halfwit? You dun got no dun Premiership ain’t ya? Maaaaacka’ Weird because during your essay bit consisting of ‘facts’ your grammar and spelling is almost University standard. Put your suit back on Jeffrey, you’ve got to update that spreadsheet tomorrow.
Rubbish Club Vile why you worring about us and not your own team , man city won the title and chelsea the champions league and FA cup what did utd win this year . same as us feck all. go and troll a city site you tool!!!
doesn’t matter if he is a bluenose or a manc the bloke is an absolute twat, if he’s a manc he’s probably annoyed that city pinched their title, and if he is from small heath he is devasted that his scummy club are still living in the mighty aston villa’s shadow
ANDRES VILLA BOAS HAS JUST FLOWN IN FROM PORTUGAL FROM HIS HOLIDAYS TO BIRMINGHAM AIRPORT; HE WAS SEEN RUSHING OUT INTO A RANGE ROVER AS SOON AS HE HAD TOUCHED DOWN POSSIBLY ON HIS WAY TO VILLA PARK AS WE SPEAK.
Rubbish Club Vile just wishes he was a united fan but is really a championship football club fan hence the anger, god i’m so glad we didn’t get relegated if that is what it does to you. LOSER!!!!!!!