Rafa Benitez is likely to take over as the manager of Aston Villa.He gave them the budget for players.Rafa do not come cheap.
Be a great appointment for Villa. Anyone see a management pattern at Villa? - next they will want Kenny!
Assuming you posted this because Rafael Benitez is a Liverpool former manager, before you jump on the 'Chequebook manager' bandwagon, remember what he achieved at Liverpool, I for one, respect him not only as a person and a former manager, but as a Liverpool legend. Anyway, I always felt he would end up at Aston Villa when he came back to England.
I think that Benitez would do well at Villa. They already have a good youth system and a good crop of youngsters in their squad, and Rafa improved our youth system enormously. As long as lerner leaves him to it I can see him doing well there
Just been reported on Sky Sports News that Rafa will not be becoming the new manager of Aston Villa. He held preliminary talks with Aston Villa and discussed transfer budgets and the meeting ended in a stalemate.The favourite according to the bookies at the moment is Wigan manager Roberto Martinez at 15/8.Steve McClown is also in the running to become Villa boss.
The last thing Villa need is the ''Wolly with the Brolly''.He thought speaking dutch was speaking English with a lisp.
Twente fans don't care about brollies or accents. McLaren got them 2nd in his first season and won the Eredivisie for the first time the next, beating richer Ajax (with Suarez) to the title. And he did it by playing 4-3-3 total football. Fergie didn't want to lose him as assistant. He's a forward thinker, a radical, and always looking for new developments in the game. Boro won the Carling Cup, got to a Eufa Cup final and two FA Cup semis, beating Utd to one of them. He dropped Lampard for Barry to get away from the Lampard/Gerrard conundrum and turned results around for England. His rep grew again. His big mistake was putting Lampard back in for the Croatia game. And using an umbrella. How many managers have excelled at the England job? A lorra wallies there.
Excellent post. I do disagree with you about the England bit though... He was ****e as England manager. To be fair, most England managers haven't been brilliant.
I didn't say he was great, I said few England managers are. But for a while England fans and the media thought he was doing a good job.
So what do Sky Sports News know about anything? Radio 5 are announcing that MClaren will not even be interviewed and no menyion of Rafa being ruled out. Leaving aside rafa's quality as a human being I think that he could prove to be a very effective manager for Villa as his professional decision making would not be swayed by any love for the club and I doubt that learner would be playing the same type of games as H&G.
