Pat Murphy who specialises in football and cricket, put a tweet out today saying, that there had been no interviews conducted for the Villa job yet, and that they might take place next week once they had done due diligence, ha ha ha!!! Due flipping diligence, a phrase that’s getting right up my nose.
Due diligence, I thought I’d heard the last of those irritating words once the Premier and Football league conducted this process for our new owner. I mean, I’ve never heard of any other potential manager ever having to go through this procedure before, and I wonder how long it’s going to take?
If the reports were to be believed that RDM had to win his last match against Preston North End to save his job, then you’d think we might have someone lined up to take over from him if we lost. Well, we lost hopelessly, and currently, the Villa board are moving as fast as a steamroller with an iron deficiency to hire our new manager, and now we know, they had nobody lined up, clever Villa!!!
Can you imagine, if we made a move for Sean Dyche, and he was willing to listen to our proposal of being the next Villa manager, then we told him we must do Due Diligence? That’s right, he’d tell Keith Wyness to suck his ginger love sack and probably give him a kick up the arse as he’s going out the door.
I mean, we need to get a move on and get the right man in, and this shouldn’t take forever really. We need to be realistic about who might accept the Villa job also. I think you can forget any manager in the Premier League, let’s be honest, they wouldn’t touch us with a barge pole and that includes Sean Dyche.
Maybe someone in the Championship might take the job, but I doubt it. I’m sorry to say, but I’ve been saying it for a long time, that it could take up to three seasons for us to get back into the Premier League, and any young aspiring manager who is doing all right for their club, wouldn’t take a risk on Villa, because they know they’d only get eleven matches before they got the sack.
Also, I think the interview process that Aston Villa adopts will put a lot of managers off. I’ve gained exclusive access of the Villa’s interview process, which I’ve printed below.
Aston Villa’s Interview Process
Firstly: A phone interview will take place.
Secondly: A group interview will happen between all candidates. Role-play will happen, by where they can pretend how to be a good manager, a manager under pressure and a manager out of work with their reputation in tatters when things go tits up.
Thirdly: A face-to-face interview will happen.
Fourthly: All unsuccessful applicants will be told to sling their hooks and a charged might be applied to cover the costs of the Due F***ing Diligence process.
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Blimey follow that. Well we now have become the new Leeds, what is it now 5
managers/caretakers in about 18 months. Who in their right mind would leave a secure job at Huddersfield/Bristol City or especially Burnley to move to B6.
We have an owner now that never shuts up and it seems has an itchy trigger finger. £50m spent and now a new man comes in who might not fancy these players so what happens does he then get a shed load of cash in January then get the bullet in March when once again he’s had no time to get the new team to gel. What a bloody farce. For goodness sake get a guy in and forget promotion this year let him set his stall out for the next 20 months or so then we might just get somewhere. Rome wasn’t built in a day even if Dr T thought it should have been.
Let’s get real, people harp on about the squad needs time to gel bla bla bla de Mateo was out of his depth, no tactical know how, didn’t know who his best squad was, didn’t know his best formation. People talk about the squad from last season don’t know how to win, the team has at least 9 new players in the team, so no excuses there. Steve Bruce is proven in this division and has an ok record in the premier league with lesser teams than Villa.
I thought we were now down to spin the bottle
Agree with Peter. It has to be Steve Bruce. Too many experiments with untested managers has led Villa to where they are. Only an experienced manager will be able to control, cope with and then rebuild what must be suspected to be poor off field management.
Bruce will be named next week
Due diligence may be needed because there are a number of managers caught up in this corruption scandal. What happens if we get a manager, he is found to be corrupt and gets banned from football. We’ll be back to square one. I agree that Steve Bruce is the right guy at the right time. As long as he is clear of corruption it should be a no brainer. Although he is good mates with Allardyce, so if they move in the same circles we should thoroughly check before employing him.
Due diligences are Steve Bruce to drop the no show, of Hutton Westwood
Richards Bacuna, bring in the kids who have more pace and who track back
With work rate, tell Ayew , to use his brains and become a team player,or move on. Jack Grealish , he’s not George Best, and never will be . He is
Overrated, and a Pratt to himself and Avfc. In January ,two midfield two
Full backs and a class goalkeeper . For every games lost double training
Session
That’s more like it, Laudrup is right we need some down to earth strong management. I’m not keen on this arm around the shoulder management I’m keener on a boot up the arris occasionally and players playing for their place. The players now have the whip hand but if you look at the top teams in the premier league they all have one thing in common, you don’t mess with the manager, so Bruce is the obvious choice the time for experimentation and looking at a mans potential is over.