Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Houllier Takes the Helm of the Villa

Gerard Houllier, former Liverpool FC manager, enters a 3-year deal to manage Aston Villa.  http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/sep/07/gerard-houllier-aston-villa-manager




Teams managed
1972–1973
1973–1976
1976–1982
1982–1985
1985–1988
1992–1993
1998
1998–2004
2005–2007
Carquefou (Part Time)
Le Touquet Athletic Club
Nœux-les-Mines
RC Lens
Paris St-Germain
France
Liverpool (joint with Roy Evans)
Liverpool
Olympique Lyonnais

3 comments:

  1. This appointment pleases me.
    I thought everyone else previously mentioned were less-than-desirable, especially Maradona.

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  2. I agree. Looking forward to having the team being able to "be a team" rather than waiting for a decision on a manger. Finally ready to settle down and focus on the season. Grateful for the 2 wins during the chaos.

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  3. Wouldn't catogarize the situation as "chaos" I think KMac did a fine job of holding the fort .The loss to Newcastle was horrible but in terms of Stoke : remember we lost to "lesser" teams far too often under MON ( admittedly more so towards the end of the season due to his inflexible team selection
    )
    The poor start to the season might be more about selling our best player and not replacing him when all our immediate rivals ,except Everton were investing .
    Having said that , Randy Lerner could never compete with the obscene amount of money being thrown into Man City and in the long term I'd rather have a solvent mid table Villa than than a club who've gone the way of Portsmouth ( who I hate . so screw them ) or Leeds ( Proud history and I feel bad , but they're coming back !)
    What would be great is if Gerard Houllier brought a sense of style to Villa similar to Arsene Wenger's Arsenal .
    After all , if you're not going to win sh*t , at least play football that's fantastic to watch !

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