Garde I would say with a decent squad may well be a decent manager, however the emphasis has been on "cheap" and sell of assets, and I know there are other factors but Benteke, the snake and failure to tie Cleverley up has attributed to where we are today.
I can not see the cheap imports as the way forward. What we will need in what I call Division 2 is blood and guts. At the moment with the squad at hand we will be heading for Division 3 and not back to the top.
The defeat at Southampton was not significant in my eyes as just before the cup final. Sherwood though did start to
lose it, but you are sometimes only as good as you are allowed to be.
I believe that there are probably more savvy managers than Garde when it comes to the English league and we definitely will need one of those taking this forward. I do feel sorry for Mr Garde its not your fault.