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My Team, My Club, My Dream...... An Aston Villa Story
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Breaking News:
Alex McLeish Sacked as Aston Villa Manager.
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Sky Sports Sources have revealed that Alex McLeish has been sacked as manager of Aston Villa. With just one season in charge, he guided the club to a mid table finish of 13th.
Chairman Randy Lerner saw this as a poor finish with a club that should be contending for the European places.
With Randy Lerner not keen to splash the cash, whoever is installed as the new manager will have to sell before they can buy.
Aston Villa have announced that unproven and relatively unknown manager Desmond Pugh has been named as the new manager of the club.
The Aston Villa supporter who arrives at the club with no experience of management is seen by the board to revitalise the club he loves and a complete revamp of the club seems in order.
Randy Lerner welcomed the board, to the meeting along with myself (Desmond Pugh), the new manager of my dream club Aston Villa.
Mr. Lerner started by introducing me to the board and reassured me that i had the full backing of the board.
He confirmed my contract which was a two year contract.
I thanked the board for choosing me and read out a brief statement which i believed showed what i would like to do in the first two years....
"Gentlemen, thank you first and foremost for giving me the opportunity to manage the club i have supported since i was a small child. Whilst i am manager of the club i will always give 100% commitment and will make sure that this club once more is at the top of the league. My short term plan is to make major changes to both playing and coaching staff and hope that the board support the decisions that i make and faith in them. Within my first two years at the club I aim to have this club once more playing in a European competition and if given the opportunity, i want to get this club in the champion's league within 4-5 years. I would like to know what initial budgets i have so i may go away and plan my initial set up for the upcoming season. I would once more like to thank you all for the opportunity and hope we can work together to bring success both on and off the pitch."
Mr Lerner whispered in the ear of the managing director Paul Faulkner who simply nodded in approval.
Mr. Lerner stood up and stated my budgets for the next 12 months.
"In terms of money for acquisitions i will give you a total of £20 Million plus 95% of any money the club receives from selling players.
In terms of wages, you have no more then £300,000 to spend which would make it £1,000,000 in total.
These terms are non-negotiable and i believe it shall be more then enough for you to deliver the targets you have set for yourself."
After thinking that Randy Lerner wouldn't give me much to hear £20 million plus sales to spend i thanked him shook his hand and left the board room.
My first job was to completely re-evaluate the backroom staff, with the first job to find a assistant manager.