Curbs to be at Villa next season?

Curbs has been out the game too long, I think his going to have to start again in the championship. If his still interested in managing of course.

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He was obvioulsy a success at West Ham, kept them up when it looked impossible and finished in the top 10 the year after. If that's not success for West Ham I don't know what is!

thought he nearly took them down rather than kept them up.
Dont think they were in bottom 3 when he took over.

Partly right. Kept them up on the last day of the season with victory at old Trafford (thanks to Tevez scoring in pretty much every game) However I am sure they were something ridiculous like 5th when they sacked him. Did a good job there IMO

He was obvioulsy a success at West Ham, kept them up when it looked impossible and finished in the top 10 the year after. If that's not success for West Ham I don't know what is!

thought he nearly took them down rather than kept them up.
Dont think they were in bottom 3 when he took over.

when sir alan took the job on dec 13th 2006 west ham were in the bottom 3 and his first game in charge against manchester united

My Norwich mate thinks they'll try and get him as a replacement for Paul Lambert. Think he'd work really well at Norwich tbh.

Of course he has the right to be picky, why would anyone, who could afford to, take a job they don't want?

True, he got a payout from West Ham big enough to retire on, so he has no real need to get a job unless it's one he really wants. Rumours are he applied for the wolves job, so he obviously does want a job, and the fact they apparently offered it to him means that he isn't out of every owners mind. I'd see both Villa and West Brom as ideal jobs for him. If he did indeed apply for the Wolves job, then it shows he has no problem with either commuting or moving up that way, and he obviously has a past association with Villa, whilst West Brom would seem to be a very similar scale to ourselves, with similar premiership targets.

He was obvioulsy a success at West Ham, kept them up when it looked impossible and finished in the top 10 the year after. If that's not success for West Ham I don't know what is!

thought he nearly took them down rather than kept them up.
Dont think they were in bottom 3 when he took over.

when sir alan took the job on dec 13th 2006 west ham were in the bottom 3 and his first game in charge against manchester united

Thanks for that- was going on what my Hammer mate has always said.
As always - Charlton Life is where the facts are.

If Chelsea give Di Matteo the boot, Villa should try and snap him up straight away.

He was obvioulsy a success at West Ham, kept them up when it looked impossible and finished in the top 10 the year after. If that's not success for West Ham I don't know what is!

thought he nearly took them down rather than kept them up.
Dont think they were in bottom 3 when he took over.

They were 18th when he took over, they ended up finishing 15th.

The following season he guided them to 10th and then resigned about two games into the next season. But of course since then West Ham have gone on to much bigger and better things.

Lot of people on here doing a lot of thinking, mostly based on Curbs having chosen not to manage since he quit West Ham in August 2008.

He resigned on principle remember, and he pursued compensation through the courts because West Ham refused to pay him off after making his position untenable.

Most clubs wouldn't have made his position untenable - they would have fired him and paid compensation.


Curbs has kept his hand in by watching live games regularly, as well as TV pundit work.
He was interviewed and offered the job at Wolves in February, but declined the contract.

He may have been away from the dressing room a while - but he won't have forgotten how to ride his bike.

He was obvioulsy a success at West Ham, kept them up when it looked impossible and finished in the top 10 the year after. If that's not success for West Ham I don't know what is!

thought he nearly took them down rather than kept them up.
Dont think they were in bottom 3 when he took over.

Completely wrong - they were in the relegation zone when he took over, on their worst run of defeats in 70 years.

They won 7 of the last 9 league games and then finished tenth the season after. The next season started with two wins out of three in the league before he resigned because of board interference.

He was unquestionably a success there.

How hard was it to put Tevez' name on the scoresheet? Tevez banged in goals by the bucket. I would say the Hammers stayed up despite Curbs!

That's harsh.

It's all opinion though eh CA.

To say it was inspite of Curbs, seems to be a bit of re writing of history. Thing is he did keep them up. West Ham fans didn't like the style of football he was playing and took a lot of criticism from them.

How hard was it to put Tevez' name on the scoresheet? Tevez banged in goals by the bucket. I would say the Hammers stayed up despite Curbs!

Try asking Pardew and Mancini - both of them struggled to get the best out of Tevez/ even to get him on the pitch!