Wow! That's an incredible coup if they've got him, always rated him at Swansea. Not exactly a results manager, which they probably need to stay up, but he'll get them playing good football.
Laudrup? But he's the manager of the mighty Lekhwiya SC, champions of Qatar. Perhaps they're getting his brother, Brian?
Puts Villa down there, and hopefully out. Often when a North East team comes up one goes down and Middlesbrough are top of the Championship, hopefully we'll get rid of Sunderland. Why Defoe is there is beyond me.
Defoe is there because of a long term contract and big money. Plus, there are worse places than Sunderland to live.
I remember the season in the late 90s where there was talk of a North East revival - which ended with Sunderland and Middlesbrough both going down.
If Lambert still has a job in the morning, then something's very wrong at Villa. The BBC live thingy has this as their form since September 20th: LLLLLLDDDWWLDLDDLLLLL 21 games, 8 goals, 2 wins.
I'm mystified as to why Delph signed a four year deal with them in January. Villa have been locked in a death spiral for a few seasons now, and a few clubs were looking at signing him in January, so you'd think he'd rather move now than stick around for the rest of the season and hope one of those clubs would be willing to pay a much larger fee to a club with little grounds to negotiate.
Yeah, it's a very strange one. He's not even one of their youth players or it might make more sense. Maybe they agreed some sort of release clause? He could still move, but Villa would get something for it. Would be a nice gesture from him.
Villa's plight has been astonishing, it was only what, 4-5 years ago where us, them and Everton were the "best of the rest" teams in terms of fighting for a Europa place while trying to break into that top 4 monopoly. They had the likes of Young, Milner and Downing, a formidable trio of experienced, English Premier League players, with Dunne and Collins at the back supported by Friedel/ Given/ Guzan and Barry in CM, now they're left with a broken Benteke, Guzan and Delph who stupidly signed a new contract (unless he's done Villa a favour in terms of leaving for a fee and not on a free) plus a bunch of nobodies or cast offs. Not sure who's to blame, Lambert will obviously have a lot of fingers pointed at him but where did the money from the Young, Milner and Downing sales go? The owner looks like he's royally ****ed up what is essentially a very big English club. You can't sell quality and replace it with mediocre then expect similar results.
I get what you mean Newcastle could go the same way if Ashley doesn't pull out, or if he leaves after draining the club dry.
anyone remember a numpty on the old bbc 606 site who was a villa wum? would love to know how he is coping with villa being so bad for the past 4 years
He'd simply claim that Villa are not only the better, bigger club, but that they're still doing better really, when you think about it. That's despite the fact that Harry Kane has scored more goals than them, both in all competitions and the league alone.
