Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[Chris Jameson]

What a load of tripe.  More speculation there than the worst red tops

Edit re the post Leicester dressing room post

The 'purely uneducated guess' bit pass you by then?

[villadelph]

Good interview. Very pragmatic fella.  Whatever happens this season we should stick by him and give him 3/4 seasons to rebuild the team into a competitive PL outfit.

Don't jinx it.

[LTA]

With Robert Duverne likely to be back, hopefully he will have more success in improving the fitness of our squad than he did 5 years.  This teams fitness levels are appalling for a premier league club.  Their work off the ball is lazy and our sloppiness in conceding stupid goals is partially down to that too.

[itbrvilla]

What an intelligent and thoughtful sounding chap. I shall look forward to hearing him more often.

[ozzjim]

Lowest ground covered in the league. Not acceptable in any way.

Interesting interview with Gary Mac in 2011 about Duverne being excellent for forwards and their movement.

[itbrvilla]

Lowest ground covered in the league. Not acceptable in any way.

Interesting interview with Gary Mac in 2011 about Duverne being excellent for forwards and their movement.

Yet we have one of the largest pitches don't we?

[ozzjim]

I thought they were all similar now size wise. Either way, we need to put more of a shift in clearly.

[Toronto Villa]

What an intelligent and thoughtful sounding chap. I shall look forward to hearing him more often.

I felt calm after listening to him. I watched the full interview on AVTV which is about 11 minutes. What a massive difference to Sherwood, and he clearly has a really close relationship with Houllier as well as Wenger.

[ozzjim]

I would like to watch that but I am not subscribing to do so.

[frank]

I felt very encouraged after watching the interview. He comes across as intelligent, level-headed and realistic, with none of the brashness of Tim Sherwood or meaningless drivel of Paul Lambert. Good luck to him!

[MattW]

What an intelligent and thoughtful sounding chap. I shall look forward to hearing him more often.

I felt calm after listening to him. I watched the full interview on AVTV which is about 11 minutes. What a massive difference to Sherwood, and he clearly has a really close relationship with Houllier as well as Wenger.

Even on the clip he expressed a clear idea of what playing and managing in England requires. I reckon he intends to use his experience watching Wenger build a successful team at Arsenal as his model.

[Toronto Villa]

I can very much see how Sherwood's attitude would have created divisions in the dressing room. And certainly comments indicating that he didn't want certain players wouldn't have helped. It was therefore massively encouraging for Garde to preach unity, preach team and immediately eliminate a need to accommodate the French players. That they are no different to any other foreign nationality, would need to learn the language and use only English in the dressing room. But also that the English players need to help them feel included. It won't happen overnight but it is exactly the correct approach.

[Neil Hawkes]

I really hope that it works out favourably, it would be fantastic for progressive thinking to succeed for once at the Villa, but there is no denying that we are in a hole but let's hope that we have finally stopped digging.

Fully agree, when in a hole throw away the shovel and look for a ladder - we have done that now.

[jwarry]

Finally found some time to watch the interview. Fuck me! I honestly can't remember the last time I heard a Villa manager speak like that except maybe Sir Brian. I am actually getting excited.  Why oh why didn't they get this bloke in pre season?

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

Finally found some time to watch the interview. Fuck me! I honestly can't remember the last time I heard a Villa manager speak like that except maybe Sir Brian. I am actually getting excited.  Why oh why didn't they get this bloke in pre season?

I understood more of what he was talking about than all the guff that was mumbled out by McLeish and Lambert and more intelligent than the Fryisms of Sherwood. Very positive and at last a manager who can converse in English.