Bilic talks at lawyer stage

[Birdman1811]

All I asked was we took our time, interviewed a variety of candidates and chose the guy who won through that process. We've done that, those moaning about Bilic not being a defensive coach can only complain if they didn't advocate for Smith last summer, who also can't organise a defence.

Would Bilic have been my first choice? No, that was always Hughton, but I'm happy and has my full backing, we could do with some excitement back and he wouldn't be here on peanuts and with a tiny budget. If it is true, I'm quite happy.

Open minded about the potential appointment but you can still be sceptical of a manager whose teams look disorganised throughout the team not just defensively and still rate Smith. Smith was employed to get Villa up by finding the best way to do that, the game plan was to rely on Grealish which most teams would if they had him at their disposal. Any manager who can get tinpot Walsall into the playoffs / top half of league one is a decent manager.  

Anyway this potential appointment is either going to be a stroke of genius or a very turbulent ride on and off the pitch. I’m expecting the latter hoping for the former.

Pardew got Newcastle into Europe, most managers have one success somewhere, that's what gets them employed again. But we are going over well troden old ground.