Who do you want the next Villa manager to be?

[Rudy Can't Fail]

So the Lyon President has said there is no way he is releasing his coaching staff. Time for Garde to show leadership. Ask them to walk out or come without them. Piss or get off the pot time.

Precisely. If they want to join Villa show some commitment, quit your job and get your arses over here. No more dilly dallying.

They're not going to dump on Lyon if they can help it. They can walk and we pay up the remainder of their contracts which will be peanuts. This is all about waiting for Lyon to find new coaches. There was obviously a verbal agreement with Garde that they wanted to join him before it hit the news.

[Ozzjim]

Will looks like we will need a couple of coaches even if Remi comes. There's be good people out there he can employ though. A forwards coach is a must assert the moment.

[Percy McCarthy]

Off topic (a bit) - did Yorke ever score against us for Manure? I recall the badge kissing but can't mind if it was after he scored a goal or just a general wind up.

No. Scored a couple for Blackburn against us in a cup battering though.

Cheers cd.

[Percy McCarthy]

Definitely at least once - a penalty on the first day of the season, '95.

Cheers. I think you misread the question though 😏

[Ads]

Yorke kissed the badge when Beckham scored a free kick against us. The big tosser.

[themossman]

My only concern is that there are examples of good managers who have struggled without their preferred staff.

[ClaretAndBlueBlood]

Off topic (a bit) - did Yorke ever score against us for Manure? I recall the badge kissing but can't mind if it was after he scored a goal or just a general wind up.

No he didn't.  Yeah He scored a couple against us in the cup for Blackburn. The crowd sang some really vile stuff at him, like "Is The Baby Really Yours?" So I can forgive the badge kissing.

I work opposite OT and have been to the odd Yorkie Q&A at the Red Café, and he's always spoken very highly of us.
Therefore I don't bare a grudge at all.
In the 30 years I've been going he's in the elite bunch of players with Cowans, Mcgrath and Platt.
I think Yorke would be a decent addition on the coaching set-up, especially with the younger players.

I met him down at Sky Sports, had my pic taken with him and Redknapp. Yorkie was glowing in his love for the Villa, called us his club. I don't bear any grudges against him, not sure I would employ him as a coach though

[Slaphead]

Off topic (a bit) - did Yorke ever score against us for Manure? I recall the badge kissing but can't mind if it was after he scored a goal or just a general wind up.

No he didn't.  Yeah He scored a couple against us in the cup for Blackburn. The crowd sang some really vile stuff at him, like "Is The Baby Really Yours?" So I can forgive the badge kissing.

I work opposite OT and have been to the odd Yorkie Q&A at the Red Café, and he's always spoken very highly of us.
Therefore I don't bare a grudge at all.
In the 30 years I've been going he's in the elite bunch of players with Cowans, Mcgrath and Platt.
I think Yorke would be a decent addition on the coaching set-up, especially with the younger players.

Yorke is a self centred egotist, he should never be employed by Villa again... Amazing memories though.

[rob_bridge]

I was a little too young to appreciate how good Little and Gray were and even fully the Championship winning side. Didn't see them frequently enough.

Yorke is one my top 5 players for Villa. Along with McGrath (the best by a street), Platt, Cowans and Bosnich.

[Dante Lavelli]

You'd have thought that Garde could bring in some coaches through to the end of the season and then approach his preferred people in the summer.  I quite like the idea of the club having a revolving door of coaches as long as they fit within a certain framework of what the management team are trying to achieve.  It is an easy way of adding new ideas and freshness to the management's routines.

Just looking at Arsenal's double winning squad of 98 and any number of the following players could fill the gaps:
Keown, Platt, Winterburn, Dixon, Adams (!), and Overmas all are still involved with football.

[aev]

Yorke kissing the badge was presumably on the back of getting a fair amount of abuse.

I realise that this happens a lot, and that some people don't respond in the way that Yorke did, but sometimes we want it everything on our terms, and getting holier than thou when someone gives it back. He was my favourite player, and he was vindicated in moving in terms of profile and winning stuff. I also think that his frustration in how we have fallen comes across whenever he is on tv with his massively wide lapels.

I have no idea if he he would be any good as a coach though.

[montague]

Sky showed the 100 club programme with Yorkes 100 plus EPL goals. He was immense, 2 footed, good in the air could beat a player. The best all round striker I have seen in 48 years of supporting the Villa. I was at the badge kissing game and he was getting dogs abuse beforehand so anyone taking offence at this I would suggest should get over yourself. I always think he comments on the Villa fairly. Given he is supposed to be impartial how can you analyse any recent Villa game without saying we are crap. If he has the qualifications and ability to be a coach I would welcome him back. Not as Head Coach yet though.

[rob_bridge]

Sky showed the 100 club programme with Yorkes 100 plus EPL goals. He was immense, 2 footed, good in the air could beat a player. The best all round striker I have seen in 48 years of supporting the Villa. I was at the badge kissing game and he was getting dogs abuse beforehand so anyone taking offence at this I would suggest should get over yourself. I always think he comments on the Villa fairly. Given he is supposed to be impartial how can you analyse any recent Villa game without saying we are crap. If he has the qualifications and ability to be a coach I would welcome him back. Not as Head Coach yet though.

Was the badge kissing game at OT just before they won the treble when JJ scored for us?

[Monty]

Wenger has his say:

I am convinced he is a frontrunner.

He has some problems to sort out with his assistants who work with Lyon. I believe it is a challenge he should take. Advice? You know our job is about personality and having the courage to live with your ideas.

Honestly I have a lot of respect for all the managers at Villa. I believe Sherwood was not given time. [Paul] Lambert was not given time - I don't know why.

Remi is an intelligent man who is now experienced. He will try to get his ideas across and hopefully he can work. They have five or six French players who have not all had an impact.

So, he appears to be telling Remi to take the job with or without the assistants - 'courage to live with your ideas' sounds like it implies 'courage to do it alone', to me.

As for the Managers' Union guff, I'm not exactly sure how Lambert wasn't given 'enough time', but he has to say all that - he can hardly say 'yeah, not surprised they sacked that fucking chancer, amirite?', can he?

[Marlon From Bearwood]

Just browsing a couple of online articles at work. Jamie Redknapp calls Garde an uninspiring choice (meaning he's probably never heard of him), then says "you can't tell me there aren't English managers available with better credentials". Yes I can Jamie. It's also typical apparently that we're looking abroad for a manager (yes Jamie, all of our recent managers were foreign weren't they).

THEN, elsewhere we have Wenger telling us that we didn't give Lambert enough time!!

Alan Brazil (yeah I know) can't understand why we'd look abroad when Nigel Pearson is available.

I need to stop reading this drivel before I start head butting walls.