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Author Topic: Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa  (Read 941186 times)

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Re: Remi Garde - Officially - Welcome to Aston Villa
« Reply #1920 on: December 28, 2015, 08:59:03 PM »
I can only conclude after his double leg break and then setback from that, none of the managers think Kozak's body is up to top level football anymore.

Same as Gary Gardner who's still here btw.

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Re: Remi Garde - Officially - Welcome to Aston Villa
« Reply #1921 on: December 28, 2015, 08:59:05 PM »
I have been placing bets for seventy years since I could write out a betting slip.  I would bet any amount of money demanded that if we had played Adama Traore wide and Libor Kozak lumbering on to his passes in the box from the start of the season we would not be staring at certain relegation. We have a shit defence a paperweight midfield and nobody to shoot at goal. The easiest of those three to fix is to get a player into the team who can work the penalty box.

Agree entirely about Kozak. Look at Benteke's goal last week against Leicester and that's what players like Kozak do very well.
Then please someone explain why he has not been played?

Because he's not as good as Benteke?  In fact, given three managers have decided not to play him now maybe he's just not very good at all?  13 league goals in 87 games across 5 seasons in Italy would suggest he's hardly the answer to our goalscoring issues.  Even Gabby's got a better record than that.

In fairness they only seemed to play him in the europa league and I think he either finished their top goalscorer or the tournaments top goalscorer whilst he was there, I forget which.

89 league matches doesn't tally with 'only playing him in the europa league'.  He absolutely pissed the Europa League one season and won the tournament's golden boot.  But the season before he scored 1 goal in it in 7 matches.  Not exactly prolific.

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Re: Remi Garde - Officially - Welcome to Aston Villa
« Reply #1922 on: December 28, 2015, 08:59:44 PM »
Although every other club who appoints a new manager gets the new manager bounce I really think we need to give RG at least 2 windows to see what he can do with players he wants.  Sure today was a cock up but two steps forward one back and all that

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Re: Remi Garde - Officially - Welcome to Aston Villa
« Reply #1923 on: December 28, 2015, 09:00:00 PM »
Oh, and in the season he pissed the Europa he scored zero domestic goals in 20 matches!

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Re: Remi Garde - Officially - Welcome to Aston Villa
« Reply #1924 on: December 28, 2015, 09:01:11 PM »
Oh, and in the season he pissed the Europa he scored zero domestic goals in 20 matches!

Oh well, at least we gave him a chance, eh?

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Re: Remi Garde - Officially - Welcome to Aston Villa
« Reply #1925 on: December 28, 2015, 09:03:42 PM »
At least two of those Traore crosses I could have buried and I am semi comatose.

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Re: Remi Garde - Officially - Welcome to Aston Villa
« Reply #1926 on: December 28, 2015, 09:04:16 PM »
Oh, and in the season he pissed the Europa he scored zero domestic goals in 20 matches!

Oh well, at least we gave him a chance, eh?

I'm not averse to it - we've literally nothing to lose.

But I don't think he's the answer given so many managers have worked with him and decided he's not worth a place in the first team squad.

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Re: Remi Garde - Officially - Welcome to Aston Villa
« Reply #1927 on: December 28, 2015, 09:04:35 PM »
In fairness to his league record, he's only started 30 league games for us, Lazio and Brescia combined. At the same time even allowing for his injury that's pretty shit over a 6+ year period, so maybe he's just not very good?

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Re: Remi Garde - Officially - Welcome to Aston Villa
« Reply #1928 on: December 28, 2015, 09:05:19 PM »
I reckon he must be slow, and give the ball away a lot in training. It can be the only explanation.


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Re: Remi Garde - Officially - Welcome to Aston Villa
« Reply #1929 on: December 28, 2015, 09:08:00 PM »
In fairness to his league record, he's only started 30 league games for us, Lazio and Brescia combined. At the same time even allowing for his injury that's pretty shit over a 6+ year period, so maybe he's just not very good?

Putting his goals record aside, the fact he's only started 30 league games in the last 7 and a half years also suggests he's not very good.

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Re: Remi Garde - Officially - Welcome to Aston Villa
« Reply #1930 on: December 28, 2015, 09:12:14 PM »
Well look at the goals he scored for us at least....Norwich on his debut, decent run to beat the back 4....poor finish and got lucky it came back. Cardiff, ball bobbled around the 6 yard box which he got on the end of it. Stoke, good anticipation from poor Pieters back pass. Southampton, good run to beat marker from El-Ahmadi cross.

I'm not saying he's brilliant as to me he was very slow and certainly couldn't stretch a defence but he can sniff out a chance in the 6 yard box, a poacher.

None of our other forwards are capable of that, even for how good Ayew is he does his good work outside the box with dribbles and long range shooting.

Kozak should be coming off the bench at least to give us an idea of how capable he is playing matches, either that or send him on loan somewhere.

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Re: Remi Garde - Officially - Welcome to Aston Villa
« Reply #1931 on: December 28, 2015, 09:13:11 PM »
You could I suppose argue the same about Gestede, the player who's being preferred to him. He scored a shite load for Blackburn over a season. His record elsewhere is a bit poor for a striker. Maybe Kozak wouldn't have made a difference up front, but he deserved a crack at least in our current predicament.

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Re: Remi Garde - Officially - Welcome to Aston Villa
« Reply #1932 on: December 28, 2015, 09:15:42 PM »
When you look at Rudy then it does reassure you a bit the championship is a bit naff if he can score 20 + down there. He really is one of the worst strikers I've seen in the premier league for a good while, I'd put him in the Ameobi, Carlton Cole, Anchiebe range.

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Re: Remi Garde - Officially - Welcome to Aston Villa
« Reply #1933 on: December 28, 2015, 09:18:46 PM »
Carlton Cole is a better forward than Gestede in the premier league. He is technically a donkey.

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Re: Remi Garde - Officially - Welcome to Aston Villa
« Reply #1934 on: December 28, 2015, 09:20:04 PM »
Is he available?


 


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