Football Banter

We dont want McLeish ! Send him back to the SPL, he doesnt have what it takes to be a success in the Prem !

Apparently Shearer wont become the new Cardiff manager now !

The Shearer to Cardiff story begs the question, why? - I fail to see the appeal for either side.

"McLeish is ours". "No he's coming to Villa".

How long will it take before they both realise that he's a shit manager and that he took Birmingham down last season.

Its unthinkable anyway that Villa should be so intrested in McLeish, regardless of which club he was previously at. Two relegations in four years from the premier league should be telling them that he's not the man - if Villa have got ambition of challenging for Europe again, then this bloke is not the guy to have in charge.

Looks like a classic case developing of the owners of a football club not remotely interested in what their fans want. But when do they ever...?

(15-06-2011 17:33 )Regenerated Wrote:  Its unthinkable anyway that Villa should be so intrested in McLeish, regardless of which club he was previously at. Two relegations in four years from the premier league should be telling them that he's not the man - if Villa have got ambition of challenging for Europe again, then this bloke is not the guy to have in charge.

Looks like a classic case developing of the owners of a football club not remotely interested in what their fans want. But when do they ever...?

Yet from what I read, Randy Lerner was interested in Steve McClaren, but then there was a fan protest and he decided not to take the interest any further. Perhaps if the fans had known earlier that McLeish was the other option, they would have welcomed Second Choice Steve with open arms.

Reading about this makes me wonder what would happen if Neil Lennon became Rangers manager.... War would probably break out :o

Spurs have rejected £22m bid from Chelsea for Modric

Without trying to upset the claret & blue Villans, I don't see why the Villa fans seem to think they're this massive club, before you all SHOUT at my by
'Big club' I mean a club who's consistent in the league year after year & also looking to sign players at the top end of the transfer market (Talent wise).

I've always said that Villa & Tottenham are just mid table clubs who don't go either up nor down & always seem to finish mid table every year & have done since the 90's, but then Tottenham decided to splash out a bit & look what happened yet you just don't see Villa doing this even the £24m or whatever it was on Darren Bent was probably just a flash in the pan & an inwards gesture to keep people sweet, after all Randy Learner did state that if they wanted to spend this much on a player then they could but thats just it it is only one player & considering they don't have a big squad or one packed with quality & they're gonna lose Ashley Young & maybe Stewart Downing but you know they won't spend big on replacments of the same quality.

The Villa fans went crazy at the thought of Steve McClaren, probably because of his shit job he did with England well look at England now, We're still shit & we've got Fabio Capello on £6m a year & outside of the England job he's a great manager.
Now I'll never say Steve McClaren is a great manager but he did well at Middlesbrough with limited money & he won them their first ever trophy & qualified for Europe for the first time in 128 years & then went on to qualify again & reached the final aswell as the semi final of the FA Cup.

When he went to Holland to a 'small club' FC Twente he finished 2nd in his first season, got to the final of the Dutch cup & took them to the knock out stages of the UEFA Cup for the first time. In his second season he guided Twente to their first ever Dutch title & qualified for the Champions League.

Yes ok his spell in Germany didn't go well but he did lose his main goalscorer & Wolfsburg another fairly small club were just coming off the back of their most successful season for over 20 years.

So I don't see why Aston Villa fans were against the appointment of Steve McClaren as he would've done well for them given the position they're in, I don't know why Mark Hughes left Fulam but He's obviously not gonna gat the job nor now is Martin Jol or Rafa Benitez so now your left with the manager who's just got your city rivals relegated... Oh the joy, football's a funny old game!!!

No tears from me about the departure of McCleish,let him go to Villa if they want him.the football he produced for us last season was always boring and defensive,so if we can negotiate compensation for him thats a bonus.
BUT having said that next season could be very interesting indeed to see whether it was McCleish to blame or the limited resources supplied by the owners. When Carson Yeung took over there was much celebration amongst fans around me at being rid of the 3 stooges (Gold,Brady and Sullivan) and a new man coming in with promises of a bright new era,but at the time there were delays in the takeover because money had to be raised and while I hate to say 'told you so' I did say at the time wait and see sometimes its better the devil you know.
All the big promises of large transfer budgets have evaporated, and now all we hear is newspaper talk of financial problems. The whole club seems to have imploded with players and manager queing to get out amid reports of not getting on with the board and transfers nothing to do with the manager.
Throughout last season we had a stream of reports of deals for the likes of Keane,Nzogbia,Pavlyuchenko but when push came to shove and the board had to negotiate terms all fell through.So now lets see how they back a new manager and who knows if McCleish has bigger resources to use maybe this time next year Villa fans will be delighted and us Bluenoses will be bemoaning the one that got away.

Strange that it seems McClaren was rejected for interview amongst considerable disgruntlement expressed by Villa fans and then McLeish gets linked with the job, the fans are even more incandescent with rage and yet no double change of heart yet. Weird. Most Villa fans I have spoken to wanted a big name such as Rijkaard, Van Gaal or Klinsmann.