Who do you want the next Villa manager to be?

[Fasth56]

However Baticle as assistant manager has been at Lyon in different roles for the last 7 or 8 years, During which time there have been 5 different managers including Houllier, Alain Perrin and Remy Garde . So Baticle seems he is the bit of consistency around the club, also it doesn't look like he has moved away from France during his career either, so I would say he is the main stumbling block.

Block Dover and Calais ports and burn their lorries until they let us have him.

[damon loves JT]

Duverne and Baticle. The French 'Dempsey and Makepeace'

[Sexual Ealing]

The Chas 'n Dave you can metabolise to.

[ozzjim]

So Baticle is a forwards coach, Duverne fitness, Garde the tactician and Genesio his long standing friend and assistant.

Linked with Galtier from St Etienne tonight too.

[adrenachrome]

So Baticle is a forwards coach, Duverne fitness, Garde the tactician and Genesio his long standing friend and assistant.

Linked with Galtier from St Etienne tonight too.

According to the article by Julian Laurens for ESPN, it is just Baticle and Genesio that are the proverbial flies in the ointment.

Villa want him too and the only foreseeable issue is that he wants to take his two former assistant managers from Lyon -- Gerald Baticle and Bruno Genesio -- with him

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If the Meaning Evil article by Gregg Evans is correct, those 2 signed lucrative long term contracts for Lyon last summer.

All the stuff I have read indicates that Garde is quite keen on coming, and would relish the challenge.

[adrenachrome]

Arsenal.com

Wenger - Garde did fantastic job at Lyon

By Lloyd Webb
24 Jul 2015

Arsène Wenger has hailed the job former Gunner Remi Garde did while manager of Lyon.

The Frenchman was one of Wenger’s first signings at Arsenal and went on to make a name for himself as a manager of the Ligue 1 side.

Garde has since left Lyon but Wenger believes that he has left a legacy.

“He did very well,” Wenger said. "He was there for two years and did a great job. He was first in the academy, that’s why he knew these players very well. Lyon benefits now from the quality of his work.

“It was a job where he was a lot under pressure because in Lyon the demands are very high, but he did very well.

"Lyon are a very good team, a very young team but a team who made life difficult for PSG last season. It will be a good test for us.”

[Percy McCarthy]

I don't like being negative but I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the injury crisis when this fitness bloke was with us before.

[passitsideways]

However Baticle as assistant manager has been at Lyon in different roles for the last 7 or 8 years, During which time there have been 5 different managers including Houllier, Alain Perrin and Remy Garde . So Baticle seems he is the bit of consistency around the club, also it doesn't look like he has moved away from France during his career either, so I would say he is the main stumbling block.

Block Dover and Calais ports and burn their lorries until they let us have him.

I wonder if it would be worth instigating a second Hundred Years War if it means getting them in.

[pbavfckuwait]

If we cannot get the team around Garde that he wants, I would say look elsewhere, he would obviously not be comfortable without what he sees as his working set up.

Also on Dave W point about the mention of Arsenal and how often it keeps cropping up, this is a concern because if Fox and his team are trying to model and also set their goals, targets on the Arsenal model, they need to have clearly identified the differences that I believe in the next 5 maybe 10 years could not be matched unless we have a change of ownership and that person has very big pockets, we have not had a leader of the team in place for the last 20 years, we do not at the moment sit in a stadium of 70K plus, we do not charge some of the most expensive ticket prices in world football, let alone England, so do not have anywhere near they income streams, it is a very ambitious and ultimately a good long term plan to try to achieve, but long term being the important word, in between that, I do not want the Villa to go down the road of being a testing ground for future Arsenal managers and yes I know that means they would only want him if he has been a success, but it is the stability of this club they must be focusing on firstly, lastly and only.

[brian green]

I think the heady, happy days of BFR singalongs on the team bus may be coming back. Remi Garde clearly wants Duverne for the excellent work leading the Andrews Sisters.  Belting out Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy pulling into Anfield will give them something to think about.

[ROBBO]

Most managers bring their own team with them, it comes down to compensation, if Villa pay enough they will get the staff he wants.

[Phil from the upper holte]

Well if he's not coming then everyone needs to stop banging on in the media and we need to move on..

Souness says Pearson
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3292637/Aston-Villa-encouraged-target-former-Leicester-manager-Nigel-Pearson-club-continues-search-new-boss.html

[mr underhill]

what's stopping these two just resigning? And then moving to Brum pronto.

[Phil from the upper holte]

Don't think they want to

[Clampy]

I'm not sure they would have sacked Sherwood if they knew they would have problems getting their replacements in. Maybe they're just thrashing out compensation.