Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[devilla]

This feels like a good appointment unlike Sherwood's so I welcome Remi to Villa Park.

[Louzie0]

It's on Twitter so it must be true.

Remi Garde is our manager!

Yaaaay!

[Weedy]

AVante Garde

[ozzjim]

Having learned from 2 of the most successful coaches in English football in the last 20 years, and endorsed as a top coach by both, I am pretty happy we have someone who has at least got the pedigree to do well. I also think, judging by the fact he has waited for the right chance, he believes there is something here for him to do well with, which is a big bonus considering he rejected Newcastle and Sunderland, and apparently other chances to go back in. I am glad he has found himself an assistant who likes coaching forwards! I hope there is a similar defensive minded coach around the corner too!

The other thing that struck me, 6 weeks 8 weeks before the transfer window, to take the job I reckon he will have been promised 20 ish million to spend in January. Houllier alluded to Villa backing their managers, I reckon there will have been some tough negotiation on January.

[Salsa Party Animal]

Great news, and please emulate Arsene Wenger's french revolution and do it for Aston Villa Good Luck and we want to play football properly, and be entertaining and win. If some players are not good enough sort them out or get rid of them and don't use them ie Ashley Westwood, Gabriel Agbonlahor and co.

[old man villa fan]

The type of progressive appointment I have wanted since MON left.  Somehow we need to get to 'the club first' principle where the club is more important than the manager or the players.  I know that this is difficult with our media obsessed with the need for personalities but we must move towards a club identity.

I'd like to think that Remi Garde will be quietly efficient and instrumental in advising how the club playing side should be set up from top to bottom.  This will then allow others in the club to deliver, whether it be the player brought in or tactics running through all team levels.  This will mean that young players can be brought through that fit with the first team structure.

It is clear that we cannot compete financially to continue with our traditional approach and be successful.  Our managers of recent times have needed money to buy players and we have seen, without this money, have failed.  From McLeish through to Sherwood, how many players have developed their games, Benteke and Delph perhaps.

I am looking forward to having Remi Garde as manager.  I am just hoping that if he not successful straight away, people give him time.  We are almost going back to square one and starting again.  It will take time.

[andyh]

I am genuinely excited by this, and am pleased to see us making a progressive choice.
Of course, it's a massive gamble, but any new manager is a gamble.

Good luck Remi.
Make us great again.

[villan from luton]

I hope Garde us our new manager with the back up he is happy with. Then the players have to perform to the standard they can, I will agree the tactics have been strange sometimes but hopefully that is going to change

[maidstonevillain]

Bon chance M. Garde.

Voulez vous un 4 way with Olaf and Lizz?
Just asking

Good to see you are dedicating yourself to the cause.  Lie back and think of Villa.

[tomd2103]

Having learned from 2 of the most successful coaches in English football in the last 20 years, and endorsed as a top coach by both, I am pretty happy we have someone who has at least got the pedigree to do well. I also think, judging by the fact he has waited for the right chance, he believes there is something here for him to do well with, which is a big bonus considering he rejected Newcastle and Sunderland, and apparently other chances to go back in. I am glad he has found himself an assistant who likes coaching forwards! I hope there is a similar defensive minded coach around the corner too!

The other thing that struck me, 6 weeks 8 weeks before the transfer window, to take the job I reckon he will have been promised 20 ish million to spend in January. Houllier alluded to Villa backing their managers, I reckon there will have been some tough negotiation on January.

To be honest, I think the timing of the appointment is a good one as well.  His first couple of fixtures will be tough, but they will be games no one will be expecting much from so it will give him a chance to look at a few things before we enter a really important run of fixtures. 

Some of the teams down at the bottom are really starting to struggle, so I am hopeful we can pull clear relatively quickly if we can put some results together. 

[ozzjim]

I hope he gets the coaching team sorted quickly. If it is just him and Reggie we might be light, especially in light of KMac talking about having to use the youth coaches at the moment with the first team.

[villan from luton]

Having learned from 2 of the most successful coaches in English football in the last 20 years, and endorsed as a top coach by both, I am pretty happy we have someone who has at least got the pedigree to do well. I also think, judging by the fact he has waited for the right chance, he believes there is something here for him to do well with, which is a big bonus considering he rejected Newcastle and Sunderland, and apparently other chances to go back in. I am glad he has found himself an assistant who likes coaching forwards! I hope there is a similar defensive minded coach around the corner too!

The other thing that struck me, 6 weeks 8 weeks before the transfer window, to take the job I reckon he will have been promised 20 ish million to spend in January. Houllier alluded to Villa backing their managers, I reckon there will have been some tough negotiation on January.

To be honest, I think the timing of the appointment is a good one as well.  His first couple of fixtures will be tough, but they will be games no one will be expecting much from so it will give him a chance to look at a few things before we enter a really important run of fixtures. 

Some of the teams down at the bottom are really starting to struggle, so I am hopeful we can pull clear relatively quickly if we can put some results together. 

Think the other teams struggling is a bonus but we have to get our own house in order first. I really think we have some decent players, but who is going to score the goals ?

[ktvillan]

I feel a lot more positive about this than either the Lambert or Sherwood appointments.  I'm among those who've advocated a non-British coach because I think the Brits are generally lacking in terms of tactical nous and coaching skills.  Guess I'll look a bit daft if it goes tits up, but I think it's less of a risk than the Sherwood appointment, and more progressive than someone like Moyes.  I hope it works out and shuts up all those so called pundits who backed Sherwood and then said it makes no sense to go for someone without PL experience.  I just hope Sherwood hasn't left him too much of a mountain to climb.

[Mellin]

Exactly @ Luton. We need goals from somewhere and if we do go down, it'll mainly be due to not having a striker of the standard required.

Still, positive appointment and surely the only way is up considering our recent track record.

[tomd2103]

Having learned from 2 of the most successful coaches in English football in the last 20 years, and endorsed as a top coach by both, I am pretty happy we have someone who has at least got the pedigree to do well. I also think, judging by the fact he has waited for the right chance, he believes there is something here for him to do well with, which is a big bonus considering he rejected Newcastle and Sunderland, and apparently other chances to go back in. I am glad he has found himself an assistant who likes coaching forwards! I hope there is a similar defensive minded coach around the corner too!

The other thing that struck me, 6 weeks 8 weeks before the transfer window, to take the job I reckon he will have been promised 20 ish million to spend in January. Houllier alluded to Villa backing their managers, I reckon there will have been some tough negotiation on January.

To be honest, I think the timing of the appointment is a good one as well.  His first couple of fixtures will be tough, but they will be games no one will be expecting much from so it will give him a chance to look at a few things before we enter a really important run of fixtures. 

Some of the teams down at the bottom are really starting to struggle, so I am hopeful we can pull clear relatively quickly if we can put some results together. 

Think the other teams struggling is a bonus but we have to get our own house in order first. I really think we have some decent players, but who is going to score the goals ?

Agree about us getting our house in order, but if we can manage to do so fairly sharpish, we could find ourselves moving up the table quite quickly. 

I also agree that goals remain a worry and it might be an issue that isn't properly addressed until January.  I think we have goals in the team, but we are also going to have to tighten up at the back in order to start winning games.  We desperately need a striker and someone who can deliver a good set piece in January though.