Gerard Houllier

[joeluke]

Left Villa 'by mutual consent'. I'm sure he got a good payoff but he was taking the team nowhere and was unpopular with the players (lots of rumours of unrest and confrontations last season) and fans, so Villa are shot of him without the unpleasantness of having to sack him which I think would have eventually happened

Villa lost one of the best managers in the business when Martin O'Neill left, they should have done more to try to hang onto him. O'Neill was apparantly frustrated by the lack of transfer funds being made available for him to spend, yet as soon as Villa looked like slipping into the relegation fight last season Mr Lerner panicked and paid well over the odds by blowing £24million on Darren Bent

If I was Mr Lerner I'd go all out to prise David Moyes from Everton

[Mick-Talbot]

ok

[joeluke]

Thanks mick, but your view on the Villa/Houllier situation is?

[Mick-Talbot]

erm, what has Martin O'Neill actually achieved?
David Moyes ? zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZ I would rather give Cazz1975 the job.

[joeluke]

O'Neill took Leicester to 3 League Cup finals, winning two of them, took them into the UEFA Cup. He was also very successful at Celtic, not only domestically but also taking them to the UEFA Cup final.......and given time (and money) I'm sure he could have taken Villa further

......but he's obviously never achieved anything has he Mick?

As for Moyes, he's done an excellent job at Everton, overachieving under tight financial restraints

......but obviously you're going to come up with a better candidate for the Villa vacancy? Avram Grant perhaps?

....and one more thing, you criticise other teams but you never admit which team your allegiance is with. Too embarrassed perhaps?

[cazzz1975]

sorry joe, o'neill wasted a lot of money buying players and using them as seat warmers (nicky shorey a notable one) he may be good in the championship but I think he still has yet to prove his effectiveness in the prem.

[joeluke]

cazzz......all managers make bad signings, even Fergie

Houllier took Villa backwards, who would you have as his replacement?

[craft1948]

Going to be Mark Hughes isn't it?

[joeluke]

....but to use a phrase from an earlier post 'what has Mark Hughes actually achieved?'

Far less than Martin O'Neill

[bibblebub]

There's talk that Redknapp will be leaving Spurs...

[cazzz1975]

he wasted a lot of money on signings he didnt use, I can see why lerner would be cautious about handing him an empty cheque book on the basis that the media think he is the best thing since sliced bread.

houllier should never have taken the job, it was too big to go from being out of the game for a few years and being in ill health to managing a premier league side. I would be happy to see anyone who has fire and drive, I would have liked moyes, but I think hughes *could* be okay, certainly an improvement on houllier..

[cazzz1975]

got to remember chelsea are looking for a manager as well.

[Hopkirk]

What has Mark Hughes achieved?

How about eighth place in the Prem for a little team.

[joeluke]

Bibble, If Redknapp doesn't leave for another domestic team I think he'll get the England job next summer when Crapello leaves

[bibblebub]

Yes, but he knows that the FA will want him and would probably pay whatever it takes to end a contract early.

[joeluke]

Hopkirk......Fulham finished 8th in Premier league, 3 points ahead of the team who finished 14th

Great achievement