Who do you want the next Villa manager to be?

[Toronto Villa]

The concern about the backroom staff is very real. Despite his enthusiasm he's reluctant to come to Villa without them, which is really concerning.

I was thinking about this last night Monty and came to the same conclusion. It looks as though he is turning down jobs  because of this and that is worrying. Surely as a competent Coach with enormous self belief he should be able to recruit another team and make them work in his way. <<taps chin>>

He's got his own reputation on the line and is going to another country in one of the competitive leagues in the world. I imagine he wants to put himself in the best position to succeed. No different to MON, no different to Paul Lambert. Rodgers takes his own people, Moyes changed the staff very quickly at Man U, Mark Hughes has an army with him that insists join him at his new club. I don't think it's anything unusual.

[Monty]

If he doesn't come because he can't get his people then fuck Lyon and fuck Metz. Like they even need them. They can hire any coach and physio they want, but apparently we can only hire THOSE SPECIFIC TWO. Therefore, if they don't let us have them, they're selfish, and fuck them.

[Salsa Party Animal]

and they could say the same for us as we can hire other coach to work with Garde

[PeterWithesShin]

Or maybe those are just that good they don't want to let them go? If we don't get them i'll forever blame them for stopping us becoming the dominant side in world football.

[Monty]

Or maybe those are just that good they don't want to let them go? If we don't get them i'll forever blame them for stopping us becoming the dominant side in world football.

Damn right. They'll have stood between us and European Cups 2 through 5.

[LeeB]

Or maybe those are just that good they don't want to let them go? If we don't get them i'll forever blame them for stopping us becoming the dominant side in world football.

I like this approach. Instead of blaming the useless tools we keep giving jobs to, lets blame the capable professionals that turned it down.

So fuck you Patrice Bergues, fuck you and the job you're always bloody happy in.

[FrankyH]

Just in. Any news on Garde?

Are you challenging me to a dual?

Eh?

[LTA]

Fuck me we've got Cottee telling us now we were wrong on ssn News

What did he say?

[dave shelley]

Just in. Any news on Garde?

Are you challenging me to a dual?

Eh?

The grandkids are here and would you believe that that Tom and Jerry cartoon was on today.  Great stuff.

[ozzjim]

Tony Cottee speaking his woefully poor English can go find an electrical socket in which to shove his cock.

[berneboy]

Just in. Any news on Garde?

Are you challenging me to a dual?

Eh?

I laughed aloud. Thank you.
And had to explain to my love lying beside me.

[b23]

Rapid Vienna at home was a really bad result as well. Forever remembered for some of the shambolic defending i've ever seen, including the comical clearance that went over our own crossbar.

Didn't Curtis Davis hit the bar with a back pass too ?

[silhillvilla]

You know that scene in Bonny and Clyde towards the very end of the movie.

[adrenachrome]

From the Birmingham Mail. Emphasis is mine.

Remi Garde will ‘blow Aston Villa away’ in the interviewing process for the vacant managerial post but he will not move without his tried and trusted assistants.

A close friend of the Frenchman has told the Birmingham Mail that he is keen on a challenge in England and will only accept an offer if his support network join too.

Garde wants to bring in Lyon assistant Gerard Baticle and Metz fitness coach Robert Duverne but there are complicating issues surrounding both men.

Not only are Lyon desperate to retain the services of Baticle, ex-Villa employee Duverne is also struggling to get out of his Ligue 2 club.

On top of that Villa are not interested in recruiting more fitness coaches to a team that was increased over the summer.

Chief executive Tom Fox landed two new members of staff from American ‘performance culture’ organisation EXOS after seeing the benefits that Shad Forsythe, Arsenal’s head of athletic performance enhancement, had bought to his former club in north London.

Strength & Conditioning coach Chris Lorkin and Head of Performance Mike Watts are also both still at the club and are popular with the players.

Garde, a man who interviewed well at Newcastle and at Brighton & Hove Albion before Sami Hyypia was appointed in the summer of 2014, is brimming with ideas and ready for the next step in his career.

“He’s been waiting for the right opportunity and if he can bring along the right support, Villa would be a club that appeals to him,” said a source.

“He has always impressed in interviews in the past.”

The 49-year-old has been out of football management since leaving his post at Lyon at the end of the 2013/14 season but has spoken to various clubs about taking over.

Villa are still considering other candidates but they’re focusing most of their energy on Garde.

[ozzjim]

If not getting a new manager that we have known we wanted a whole hinges on him wanting a fitness coach then you just get on with it.