Perhaps Mcleish wasn't getting the support of the players? there must have been an idea that he was going today no matter what the result, so where was the incentive for them? Its a hard one to predict, on paper its a sideways move, but how many times does football make sense. Lets put it this way, would you say it would be a good move for a manager to jump ship to the club his present one had just beaten 7-1?
it wasn't just one game though was it. they've been awful all season. lambert loves players who play with passion. only given did that. and again, the colchester comparison is daft! norwich in league one were effectively the equivalent of man united in the premier league. the result that day was meaningless to lambert - it was all about what he could do with the club and he's been proven right. the gap between norwich and villa is minimal at best
The fact of the matter is that McLeish was the Villa fans wanted the least out of anybody (Joey barton as player manager would be more popular), he has been a dead man walking all season, the fans WANT Lambert, so surely that would be incentive surely?
Come on Guru, Col Who are a pub team and well you know it, that was completely different. Hell, we were getting 26K crowds in League 1 col who get 260 !!
It's incentive because the fans want him? So little things like money, the squad needing a complete overhaul, what he can actually achieve there go out of the window because he is getting his ego stroked by the villa fans? Spurs fans wanted Harry to stay when the England job first came up. Ask them there opinion now... Footballs fickle. I would hope Lambert would be intelligent enough to not fall for the fawning of the Villa fanbase...
But supers is making comparisons about yourselves and Villa just purely on league position and finance, not structure and potential. The potential for Villa is enormous, certainly more than Norwich. they are potentially the biggest club in the country's second largest city, the fan base is massive compared to Norwich!
Not 'Bless' but true. I have heard 3-4 radio ITK pundits saying Lambert is off to Villa. Shame really but bigger fish eat smaller fish.
the potential for villa is bigger than norwich, but that potential is a million miles away from being recognised and would require finance that they don't have. why would he start from scratch at a club where there is a small possibility of getting to the top rather than staying another year or two and getting a top job already at the top? it makes no sense and you know it! its not going to happen
Aston Villa is a huge club with enormous potential but Lambert wont be going there, he will wait for the scousers to come calling!
same here! he's blatantly based it on who some pundits WANT as manager. none of them know who their new manager will be so why claim that they are in the know???
guru, villa are a much, much bigger club than wigan, yet martinez didn't go there. norwich are a much bigger club than wigan so what makes you so certain he'd go there instead?
