Who do you want the next Villa manager to be?

[brian green]

Number 1 and Number 9 you have got each other's boots on the wrong feet.

[ciggiesnbeer]

I'll be glad if he is putting down a few conditions of his own. The last 3 managers came across as yes men just pleased to have a top flight job.

Hopefully one of those conditions is a large guaranteed transfer budget.

[saunders_heroes]

I'll be glad if he is putting down a few conditions of his own. The last 3 managers came across as yes men just pleased to have a top flight job.

Hopefully one of those conditions is a large guaranteed transfer budget.

Indeed.

[Stirchley Villain]

I'll be glad if he is putting down a few conditions of his own. The last 3 managers came across as yes men just pleased to have a top flight job.

Hopefully one of those conditions is a large guaranteed transfer budget.

Indeed.

A reasonable one would do...

[The Edge]

When the Villa come knocking, YOU ANSWER!

Oh how I wish that was still true.

[Villa in Denmark]

Number 1 and Number 9 you have got each other's wellington boots on the wrong feet.

[Stirchley Villain]

When the Villa come knocking, YOU ANSWER!

Oh how I wish that was still true.

Now it's just our knees knocking.

[pauliewalnuts]

If his assistants didn't want to come and Garde would only come with them we wouldn't still be talking to him.

End of the day, if they want to come they will do, as is always the case in football.

[PeterWithesShin]

You can understand that they have a preferred choice of assistant etc, but it would be weird for a manager to not want to get back into managing unless he has certain people with him. What if they never want to leave the clubs they are at, is he going to leave himself the choice of manage one specific club or never manage again?

[villadelph]

When the Villa come knocking, YOU ANSWER!

Oh how I wish that was still true.

Now it's just our knees knocking.

oh no, we ring and run. Then ownership can pedal to us that at least they went for the big names.

[Monty]

If his assistants didn't want to come and Garde would only come with them we wouldn't still be talking to him.

End of the day, if they want to come they will do, as is always the case in football.

You'd also have thought that, given we've probably been talking to Garde for a while, the assistants would have been aware of the situation for at least a week now. He probably phoned them on Saturday at the latest to ask them if they're interested, so there's no way they're not at least open to the idea. Aulas is just fronting up.

[silhillvilla]

Well I've not read anywhere that Garde has ruled himself out so I'm guessing this is happening.

[Ger Regan]

Does anyone know how close he was to joining Newcastle? Was it very tentative enquiries or is it a carbon copy of our situation?

[PaulWinch again]

If his assistants didn't want to come and Garde would only come with them we wouldn't still be talking to him.

End of the day, if they want to come they will do, as is always the case in football.

Indeed.

[silhillvilla]

Does anyone know how close he was to joining Newcastle? Was it very tentative enquiries or is it a carbon copy of our situation?

Seems spookily similar, he couldn't secure his coaches and so it fell through. Aswell as the art gallery stuff.