{"id":440523,"date":"2011-06-13T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/13\/former-aston-villa-striker-stan-collymore-backs-alex-mcleish-for-vacant-manager%e2%80%99s-job\/"},"modified":"2011-06-13T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T22:00:00","slug":"former-aston-villa-striker-stan-collymore-backs-alex-mcleish-for-vacant-managers-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/13\/former-aston-villa-striker-stan-collymore-backs-alex-mcleish-for-vacant-managers-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Aston Villa striker Stan Collymore backs Alex McLeish for vacant manager\u2019s job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Alex Fisher<\/h3>\n<h4>13 Jun 2011 23:00:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"77.4466357309\">\n<div readability=\"17.4285714286\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"EPL ; Alex McLeish - Gerard Houllier, Birmingham City v Aston Villa(Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/121600\/121666_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>EPL ; Alex McLeish &#8211; Gerard Houllier, Birmingham City v Aston Villa(Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span readability=\"45.4099274958\">Former <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/95\/aston-villa\">Aston Villa<\/a> striker Stan Collymore has backed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/scotland\/19100\/alex-mcleish\">Alex McLeish<\/a> to take the manager\u2019s job at Villa Park.<\/p>\n<p>McLeish resigned as boss of Villa\u2019s city rivals Birmingham on Sunday but his resignation is yet to be accepted by the Blues board.<\/p>\n<p>And now Collymore, a Villa fan, believes McLeish, who is the bookmakers&#8217; favourite for the job, is the right man to replace Gerard Houllier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he\u2019s a fantastic manager and exactly what Villa need,\u201d Collymore told <em>talkSPORT<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got a lot of young players, there is a lot of instability at the moment after Gerard Houllier and Martin O\u2019Neill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI genuinely can\u2019t see other than the fact that he managed Birmingham City what the problem is for a lot of Villa fans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Villa had a difficult start to the season following the shock departure of Martin O&#8217;Neill just days before the first game of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Gerard Houllier was named the club&#8217;s new boss in September but left by mutual consent earlier this month due to his health, with Roberto Martinez an early contender to replace him. But with the Spaniard choosing to remain at the DW Stadium, McLeish is now the front-runner for the job.<\/p>\n<p>And Collymore believes McLeish could be the man to shore up Villa&#8217;s defence whilst helping develop some of the talented youngsters on the club&#8217;s books.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat they need to do is look at the candidates and look at their abilities,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe one thing that Villa haven\u2019t done, particularly last season after Martin O\u2019Neill left, is defend very well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBuild from the back and bring through some of the youngsters. He\u2019s got people like Kevin MacDonald and Sid Cowans on the staff and I genuinely think, looking at it dispassionately, that Alex McLeish would be an excellent manager for Aston Villa and that\u2019s all I care about.\u201d<br \/><span><span id=\"divAdnetKeyword\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><em>Our<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/GoalUK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/93900\/93900.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"48\" height=\"11\" \/><\/em><\/a><\/span><em>\u00a0provides the best breaking news online and our\u00a0<\/em><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GoalUK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/93800\/93899.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"49\" height=\"10\" \/><\/em><\/a><\/span><em>\u00a0football fan community is unmatched worldwide. Never miss a thing again!<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Here is the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/06\/13\/2530945\/former-aston-villa-striker-stan-collymore-backs-alex-mcleish-for-\" title=\"Former Aston Villa striker Stan Collymore backs Alex McLeish for vacant manager\u2019s job\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Former Aston Villa striker Stan Collymore backs Alex McLeish for vacant manager\u2019s job<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Alex Fisher 13 Jun 2011 23:00:00 EPL ; Alex McLeish &#8211; Gerard Houllier, Birmingham City v Aston Villa(Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Former Aston Villa striker Stan Collymore has backed Alex McLeish to take the manager\u2019s job at Villa Park. McLeish resigned as boss of Villa\u2019s city rivals Birmingham on Sunday but his resignation is yet to be accepted by the Blues board. And now Collymore, a Villa fan, believes McLeish, who is the bookmakers&#8217; favourite for the job, is the right man to replace Gerard Houllier<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Former Aston Villa striker Stan Collymore backs Alex McLeish for vacant manager\u2019s job - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/13\/former-aston-villa-striker-stan-collymore-backs-alex-mcleish-for-vacant-managers-job\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Former Aston Villa striker Stan Collymore backs Alex McLeish for vacant manager\u2019s job - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Alex Fisher 13 Jun 2011 23:00:00 EPL ; Alex McLeish - Gerard Houllier, Birmingham City v Aston Villa(Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Former Aston Villa striker Stan Collymore has backed Alex McLeish to take the manager\u2019s job at Villa Park. 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