Who do you want the next Villa manager to be?

[IAmTheOneIanOlney]

All those physios should help with the inflexibility.

[Malandro]

I'm increasingly concerned that we won't get him, and if the reason for that is the board saying 'we have enough physios' then you'd really have to despair at their arrogance and inflexibility.

Come on Monty, the third working day since sacking has hardly started yet!

[The Edge]

A lot is being made of the language barrier being a big problem for the 5 french speaking players we signed in the summer. Well if we do get Garde great for them but what about the rest? How good is his English? Excellent I hope otherwise we stand to drop another major clanger.

How did Pochettino's limited English hurt Southampton when he first joined them?

I  was simply asking an obvious question as a lot of pundits have made the point about the language barrier in our dressing room.

But curiously isn't a problem in any of the other 19 multi national squads in the league.

File under media searching for more sticks to beat the club with, as the original outrage story has pretty much run it's course.

I wasn't saying it is a problem. I'm saying that many pundits (including the mumbling scotsman called Paul Lambert) are making an issue of the 5 french recruits not speaking English. I've now been informed that Garde speaks fluent English so that's answered my original question.

[Astral Weeks]

A lot is being made of the language barrier being a big problem for the 5 french speaking players we signed in the summer. Well if we do get Garde great for them but what about the rest? How good is his English? Excellent I hope otherwise we stand to drop another major clanger.

He's fluent in English

Thank you. That's all I wanted to know.

According to the French journalist on this week's Guardian football podcast, he speaks excellent English.

[ozzjim]

The English speaking french players translate. It is not uncommon and happens everywhere.

[rob_bridge]

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

Yes Percy but the current lot don't seem to be pulling up any trees. We look dead in the last 20 minutes of every game since Bournemouth, Blues aside.

[ozzjim]

Since then we have had about 5 more injury crisis hit, that have been just as bad though.

[silhillvilla]

We seem to have been getting bad injuries down BH for a while , broken legs, ligaments done etc. Was it true Karsa put Benteke out for a few weeks by going through the back of him in a challenge in a game at BH ?!

[rob_bridge]

A lot is being made of the language barrier being a big problem for the 5 french speaking players we signed in the summer. Well if we do get Garde great for them but what about the rest? How good is his English? Excellent I hope otherwise we stand to drop another major clanger.

How did Pochettino's limited English hurt Southampton when he first joined them?

I  was simply asking an obvious question as a lot of pundits have made the point about the language barrier in our dressing room.

But curiously isn't a problem in any of the other 19 multi national squads in the league.

File under media searching for more sticks to beat the club with, as the original outrage story has pretty much run it's course.

How dare Villa get rid of a Proper Football Man like Sherwood, Redcrap's heir and protege. Who is going to write the Press's headlines.

Forget the results, Villa should have stuck with a Proper Football Man

[brackley]

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.

Fuck me, what next?... Jockstrap Technician?

[rob_bridge]

We seem to have been getting bad injuries down BH for a while , broken legs, ligaments done etc. Was it true Karsa put Benteke out for a few weeks by going through the back of him in a challenge in a game at BH ?!

Source?

Or is another bullshit supposition?

[Dave]

A lot is being made of the language barrier being a big problem for the 5 french speaking players we signed in the summer. Well if we do get Garde great for them but what about the rest? How good is his English? Excellent I hope otherwise we stand to drop another major clanger.

How did Pochettino's limited English hurt Southampton when he first joined them?

I  was simply asking an obvious question as a lot of pundits have made the point about the language barrier in our dressing room.

A lot of pundits are horrendous simpletons who think that the only reason we're not doing well is because poor Timmy Sherwood wasn't allowed to buy Aaron Lennon.

And whether his English is perfect or not, that wouldn't make any potential move for him a 'major clanger' as Pochettino and Southampton have proven.

[silhillvilla]

We seem to have been getting bad injuries down BH for a while , broken legs, ligaments done etc. Was it true Karsa put Benteke out for a few weeks by going through the back of him in a challenge in a game at BH ?!

Source?

Or is another bullshit supposition?

That story was doing the rounds quite a bit at the time .

[Villa in Denmark]

A lot is being made of the language barrier being a big problem for the 5 french speaking players we signed in the summer. Well if we do get Garde great for them but what about the rest? How good is his English? Excellent I hope otherwise we stand to drop another major clanger.

How did Pochettino's limited English hurt Southampton when he first joined them?

I  was simply asking an obvious question as a lot of pundits have made the point about the language barrier in our dressing room.

But curiously isn't a problem in any of the other 19 multi national squads in the league.

File under media searching for more sticks to beat the club with, as the original outrage story has pretty much run it's course.

I wasn't saying it is a problem. I'm saying that many pundits (including the mumbling scotsman called Paul Lambert) are making an issue of the 5 french recruits not speaking English. I've now been informed that Garde speaks fluent English so that's answered my original question.

Sorry if that came across as a bit sarky.  It's the constant stream of bullshit the media use to colour peoples view, such as making an issue of of something that's not a problem anywhere else that I was having a go at. Woodward and Bernstein they're not.

[SashasGrandad]

Our last 3 managers spoke English as their mother tongue - but all three came out with some utter bollocks at times.