Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[villan from luton]

I'm underwhelmed and on face value he seems like a cheap and cheerful and easily available option. I'm not quite sure where all the optimism on this thread is coming from. I felt we needed Moyes or Pearson to dig us out of trouble in the short term at least. But hopefully he will be to us as Pochettino was for Southampton and turn out to be a good choice.

I don't see how you can describe him as being 'easily available', given the wrangle over his coaching staff, at least when you're throwing Pearson out there as an alternative, who, if he weren't such a prick, would've begged for the job if he thought he might have had a sniff.

I apologise for calling him 'easily available'. The more accurate phrase would have been 'out of work for over a year'.

He chose that and he had chances to change that

[Broughty-Villian]

Very smart appointment. Hope it works well for the club, and Garde. Here's to the next 3.5 years

[Ron Manager]

I hope he has a strong personality and can deal with the likes of Micah Richards and Agbonlahor,I get the feeling that Gestede will not be to his liking.Pity we didn't get the assistants he wanted that worries me.He should like Jack and in particular Carles both should improve under him,
 All that matters as far as the club owner is concerned is staying in the top league.He has plenty of time to achieve this aim. Long term who knows? If he is successful he will. probably move on and off we go again.I shall look forward to his first interview.

[pbavfckuwait]

Welcome to Villa Park Remi and wish you all the luck in the world, as to the lack of a goal scorer, maybe he might be progressive enough to get other players scoring, rather than just relying on one player like we have been doing for so long.

[mr underhill]

More than anything let's hope this marks the beginning of restoring  dignity,  passion and pride to what we know to be one of football's great clubs.

[ozzjim]

Some talk he will be on a deal till the end of the season initially with the rest on extension. I can understand that but if we go down we still need a vision to come back and recent years site the best way out the championship is to play good football, not to simply hoof and run like it used to be.

[JJ-AV]

Hard not to be excited by this isn't it? We've got to win 10 of 28. If we don't, I'm sure he's the right man long-term.

Allez Remi!

[Clampy]

I hope he has a strong personality and can deal with the likes of Micah Richards and Agbonlahor,I get the feeling that Gestede will not be to his liking.Pity we didn't get the assistants he wanted that worries me.He should like Jack and in particular Carles both should improve under him,
 All that matters as far as the club owner is concerned is staying in the top league.He has plenty of time to achieve this aim. Long term who knows? If he is successful he will. probably move on and off we go again.I shall look forward to his first interview.

What's Micah Richards done that's so wrong?

Yeah, welcome Remi and the best of luck.

[Steve67]

Some talk he will be on a deal till the end of the season initially with the rest on extension. I can understand that but if we go down we still need a vision to come back and recent years site the best way out the championship is to play good football, not to simply hoof and run like it used to be.

're: the first line about the deal to the end of the season. I hope this is true as it shows that the club is learning from its mistakes a la Sherwood. Good move. As for Garde, I want him to succeed. Wouldn't have been my first choice but he has my 100% backing. Bring in at least two good players in January and we will be ok. Tough fixtures ahead but we aren't cut adrift yet.

[SamTheMouse]

Big name striker to come in during the January window, I reckon. Randy will spend big like he did with Bent. If it costs 30 million and keeps us up, it'll be worth it for Randy from a financial perspective. This is definitely not the year to be relegated.

[itbrvilla]

Sounds like a shortlist of one......

[frank black]

Got Vicki Michelle in my head saying (which is no bad thing)

"Ooh Remi"

[l_mckay]

Must admit didn't know anything about him until a week ago,nervous but excited at the same time. Good luck Remi! UTV

[PaulWinch again]

I'm genuinely excited by this appointment. And it's the first time I've been excited by Villa in a long time, it just feels right.

[villabear]

Bienvenue à Aston Villa Remi , le plus grand club de football dans le monde!