Feel the love. http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/may/23/the-fiver-liverpool-aston-villa?newsfeed=true When the Fiver is given the old heave-ho from Fiver Towers, and it can't be far off happening now, the only compensation coming its way will be a hefty kick up the backside from the Man's hired goons on the way out of the building. For football managers, though, the situation is altogether more cushty. When they do things like spend £20m on Stewart Downing, the marching orders come not only with a P45, but a chunk of money as well, a merited reward for spending £35m on Andy Carroll. So it's something of a noodle-scratcher that Aston Villa and Liverpool remain managerless. Succeed? Get paid. Fail? Get paid anyway. Like spending £16m on Jordan Henderson, it's surely a no-brainer. Even though both positions represent chalices more poisonous than a Daily Mail editorial. For footballing black hole Aston Villa, there was disappointment last night after it emerged that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has decided not to take the job, presumably after learning that Mr Em is being allowed to leave on a free. Probably for the best, though, because Solskjaer is from Norway and as far as the Fiver knows, they don't actually play football there. A transfer budget consisting of 3p and a packet of Skittles might have swayed his decision as well. Villa's attention may now turn to Plucky Little Wigan's Roberto Martinez, who rejected them last year, Swansea's Brendan Rodgers or Norwich's Paul Lambert. Alex McLeish is also available. Mr Em too. At least Liverpool are making progress of sorts, now they appear set to make Louis van Gaal their new sporting director, although it might arguably make more sense to just make him the manager, seeing as he's won a league title as recently as 2010, while it's so long since Liverpool last won the title that the Fiver's even changed its underpants in the intervening period. That said, it would be more entertaining to see the notoriously combustible Van Gaal clashing with angst-ridden teenager Andre Villas-Boas or telling Rafa Benitez that, no, he can't sign Gareth Barry, Antonio Nunez and Michael Owen. It won't be Frank de Boer though; he's the latest to turn them down, opting to stay at Ajax instead. Liverpool haven't quite suffered the indingity of Sky Sports News stalwart Curbzzzzzzzz saying no yet, but once that does happen, and it will, there's only one man to turn to: Terry Connor. [h=2][/h]
Now I read the Daily Mash articles and am quite happy to laugh at a bit of satire even if it is at Liverpools expense, but that is just a load of boring ****!
On the Chelsea board. http://www.not606.com/showthread.php/147381-The-bin-dippers-have?p=2880279#post2880279
Looks like Dave Whelan wants us to get on with it. I understand in this case, Wigan have a season to prepare for so they need to know who's in charge. FSG need to get a move on and identify who they think is best for the job and then offer it to them. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18191006
Hash took down some of the sticky threads. It's around somewhere as PMK posted something on it a few days ago.
