Villa Manager Merry Go Round! Di Matteo Next! LOL

Rubbish, If Lerner grew a set and was going to get rid of Lambert he would have done it before the transfer window closed (certainly after the Saints result) Lambert should resign but I dont blame him for staying and getting the Annual "Villa failure payment"

I find this believable. If I were Faulkner I would be considering the chop and I would be lining up a potential replacement. If we do need to part ways with lambert we cannot afford to waste time. I think if we lose again WBA then Paul Lambert will be off.

Would he be any differnt than Lambert? well I suupose it would end the line of Dower Scotts we have had. My only complaint with Labert (apart from the awful results) he does not know his best 11. To be honest I have resigned myself to at least two second darbies next year and I think so has the Chairman. COTVABU

As I said on the thread hours ago, it doesn't matter if we appointed Pep Guardiola as manager, he wouldn't be able to do a decent job. Lerner = No Money = SCUTTLED!

Thats it. If Lambert is sacked this season, for the good of my health I am going to have to try and give up watching the Villa (again the word try is the big one there). If he is sacked that would sum up to me all that is wrong with football. I would not pretend he has not made mistakes but it is this kind of short sighted managerial merry go round that has helped cause the mess we have at the club. No manager since MON has been able to assemble his squad or really impose his vision on the team. I do not blame Lambert for the current situation, I blame Randy. He took his eye off the ball under MON and the finances got into a mess. He should have been keeping them in order and questioning the wages MON was offering to players. I unlike most here do not blam Faulkner or want him out. Someone like him was needed to clean up the financial mess Randy and MON had us in. The only problem with Faulkner is he is being given too much control on footballing matters. Its clear (and many of us have said it for years) we need a director of football to control player turnover and let Faulkner look at the finances. At this point we stuck in a hole and Randy has to decide, sink or spend the money to get out of it for now until the DoF is appointed and then we can focus on the long term plan. Make the right choice. UTV!

Pure Bull****. If anything this is di matteo's representatives letting everyone know he still exists. We need to keep Lambert, regardless of relegation and let hime rebuild this club. 3 years on and we are still recovering from the MON era. It was always going to get worse before it got better.

I'd be overjoyed if we got rid of Lambert. His signings are poor, his tactics none existant and his motivational powers are on a par with mcleish. Di matteo, poyet or anyone else for that matter who has half a clue. Makes no difference to this season we are aleady down so we might a well look to the right choice for the future and Lambert most defnitely is not it.

Said it before will say it again doesnt matter if we had the best in the world as manager with no serious money spent in the next two weeks they are not going to do any better than Lambert.

The people who are moaning about PL will only take a few months to start moaning about the next one if/when he goes and the next one and so on. There was good reason for Eck to be moaned about but Lambert needs time AND money.

And I take no joy in that! I really thought he could turn us around.

Rawlie I can see where your coming from, but I think the difference (for me anyway) between Lambert and Eck is that I can actually see Lambert actually has some ambition and a long term plan which I never thought Eck had for one minute. Lambert at least has been trying to the team to get the ball down and pass it far more. This to me is as important a step as rebuilding the squad. It takes time for that kind of game to gel but it is football that can win titles. Ecks approach of just curl up into a ball and hope we get a draw did keep us up but not of one second did it seem (IMO) that he was ever going to change from that. Also I think records play a part. Lambert has a history of back to back promotions, Eck had been relegated 2 of the last 3 seasons and even finished 3rd with Rangers. If your managing Rangers (like if your managing Barce or Real) you are in a two team league, so to finish third is in my view a relegation.

I never said he has us playing better football, just that he is at least trying to build up to a better style of football. I agree things are awful, but I cannot see a single real boost to be gained by sacking Lambert. We now have a history of removing managers after a very short amount of time. Now what manager would want a job like that? If I was a young up and coming manager I would not take over a team that has sacked 2 managers in 2 seasons. It also stops us putting together a real squad and style of game as each manager has his own squad inmind and has started to build it and never got to complete it. What player would want to join a team that is replacing its key squad members every few months as they are replacing there manager? I also think any manager would strugle due to the lack of the funding needed to fix the short term problems. I cant even think of a better manager we would be in with a chance of getting. For the good of the club in the long haul stability is needed. We cant keep calling for a managers head every six months.

Well said Clive and Piper. Bye bye Randy - please go before you drag us down any further. Scary scenario - he's an egomaniac who doesn't like the abuse he's had (pretty much since the McLeish appointment) and this is his revenge. Got a fresh $bn in the bank and can afford to see our value go from perhaps £300m to £60m overnight, just to spite us.

Strange one this, given the timing. At the end of the day, not one of us has a clue what (if anything?) is going on behind closed doors. Does PL have money to spend? If so, then why isn't he spending it? A firm belief in his vision succeeding? Given the state of our squad and our perilous league position that, in itself, would justify him being shown the door in order to allow somebody else to spend it. If he doesn't have the financial backing, then what would be the point of bringing in a new manager? As many have stated, even Mourinho et al would struggle to do much better with this squad. That said, this is after all largely PL's squad; his approach to all things Villa has been questionable to say the least. His overall football philosophy may be admirable, but philosophy often doesn't work in the real world. And at the moment his ain't working.

Know what you're saying Rawlie but there have been good signs. With better personnel, we would surely have a good chance of survival. Can't see anyone coming in now and getting us the points needed for survival without half decent investment and don't trust Randy to appoint any better given their track record!!!