MON's gone.

[Younger]

f*ckd TBH...

Waits for Sven to come out saying he loves Villa

[Captain Planet]

The thing is

Give Sven a decent budget and a team to manage and he will build something

English fans are fools because he didn't win anything with their sh*t team

Sven has won the uefa cup with some sh*t swedish team ffs and benfica iirc

A good 10+ trophies spanning from the 80's into the end of the 20th century,

Sven is a quality man, and was cheated out of city

[TF S4DK]

O'Neill signs sh*t players but he defintely did a great job at Villa.

TBH Lerner can't be that much of a God, if he beefed with O'Neill and we can't really judge his net spend until we see that Milner cheque come in...

[Goddaz]

O'Neill signs sh*t players but he defintely did a great job at Villa & we can't really judge his net spend until we see that Milner cheque come in...

[HangTheDJ]

Great is too kind a word. He could have been, he almost was. On reflection his record was very average.

4th best manager in my lifetime. 3rd best I remember.

[Kompressor]

Are you not Paying attention?

I swear JJ has already stated he's still backing Learner

and c/s the comments on Sven aswell,

[nem kid]

mon done a brilliant job at villa

every manager makes sh*t signings

dunne, collins, cuellar, milner, friedel, young, carew, petrov

these were all great signings, the core of ur team

then u got downing, davies, guzan etc

feel sorry 4 him tbh

[Risky]

Didn't see this coming AT ALL

[GoldCoast]

he deserves better than villa

[Flojo]

If only every manager was afforded the consideration MON was

[Guest Trollse Hill]

Liverpool are pissed, could of waited another 3 weeks for MON instead of Hodson

[Flojo]

In that respect we're far from pissed

[Aquaman]

lerners big, wants that milner p regardless

[Black.]

Here comes ashley young , he should get the number 19 shirt

[HangTheDJ]

Here comes ashley young , he should get the number 19 shirt

Poor.

[Guest Trollse Hill]

Aint Ashley an Arsenal fan anyway?

We could do with him

[HangTheDJ]

He is.

[scared of who?]

If only every manager was afforded the consideration MON was

C/S. Full autonomy over transfers and capital for transfers is a luxury in todays climate.

Would have loved to have seen what type of job he'd have done at Fulham, Everton or West Ham.

[TF S4DK]

Great is too kind a word. He could have been, he almost was. On reflection his record was very average.

4th best manager in my lifetime. 3rd best I remember.

Lol, JJ he did a GREAT job. TBH his margins away were slight.

[HangTheDJ]

He spent £40million a season, won nothing. Only one of our last 5 managers before him didn't equal or better his best league placing. None of them had money.

I like the bloke and he's a good manager, given time he'd have turned it around, but now it's over (somewhat prematurely I feel) theres no way he will ever be remembered.

[TF S4DK]

Your Aston Villa the chances are that you gonna win nothing...

I just checked since August 2006, his net is -71m, thats under 18m a season. Not a great deal compared to where you was before he joined and where he leaves you...

In the same time Moyes has spent roughly the same net average per season.

[HangTheDJ]

First window he only had time to sign Petrov and this Summer he's signed no one.

He spent £40million three windows running. We were in the top 2 spenders (net) 3 years running IIRC.

It's not just the fees, it's the wages. Luke Young, Shorey and Beye on 43k. NRC on 30k. Sidwell on 50k with a fat signing on fee. Heskey on 60k. Two of these players I rate but he pays them big money and never played them.

Randy lost faith in his ability in the transfer market so took some of his control of him. It was doomed from then on.

Randy's flying over apparently as we speak so hopefully we'll know more tomorrow.

/

Sounds like I'm MON bashing, I'm not. Just didn't work out. Had Citeh not turned up it'd been different.

[TF S4DK]

He wanted the players, whether he sat there and discussed their wages is another story...

Like I said he signed some sh*t players, you'd be a fool to argue otherwise and you'd be justified to not want to keep throwing him money, however I think this has more to do with sales than signings.

Like one of the finance people was saying there is no money in the market, clubs dont want to sell their players unless they geting great deals as the majority of the time the banks calling in that money & it wont be allowed to go back out, so you'd rather keep the players you got.

It sounded from you and from O'Neill, he knew he had no money & was prepared to let one of the players he signed go out to better the team, the Milner money was gonna bring in three players be it Keane, ireland & McGeady or whoever. Obviously somewhere along the line something has happened that he really didnt like the sound of.

[TF S4DK]

Listen IMO whoever you bring in will not better the job of O'Neill.