Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[supertom]

Bacuna is something else Garde has to deal with. Who in their right mind gives a guy of Bacunas, at best and with all due respect, average ability such a long contract?? Its madness as we're not competitive enough to give players such security. Its not as if we'll be trying to re negotiate with him and his agent when his deal reaches 2 years remaining is it? Farcical mis management.

Bacuna seems to be able to fuck up 5 yard passes with almost sadistic glee and ease.
I'm pretty sure our academy can bring through a kid who can see and pass to, a team mate five yards away.
McGrath willing N'Zogbia will leave this month and then Bacuna can take his place in the stiffs.

I honestly don't understand the use of Bacuna. He's a utility player but all he is really is someone who is as painfully shit in every position as another. He's awful and he finds it all far too amusing and relaxing. 

[Nunkin1965]

Not that I'm even remotely suggesting it, or would welcome it, but Paul Lambert would be better suited for us in the Championship than Remi Garde. (Though he's still be utterly, utterly fucking shit).

Who we'd get next? I have no idea but I don't think Remi has the guts for a Championship cluster fuck. I also think he's making decisions just as baffling as the last two plonkers.

If Randy can't find a seller he has to shift his arse into gear and get this new chairman we were promised, followed by firing Fox out of a cannon into shark infested sewage.
We need a new board, a new manager and a serious injection of inspiration from somewhere. Remi couldn't even inspire a smile out of Gabby, even if he took him to the nearest McDonald's and bought the fat twazzock 10 happy meals. Someone said it best when they compared him to a Science teacher.

in your opinion mate

At last, a lot of sense spoken there. Garde is the worst of all the post MON managers.

Garde is the first manager to grasp the Gabby issue which will do for me. He's the first to have the balls to say "Not good enough son". I say fair play to him for that and if thats how he's going to handle things he deserves a chance.

[Toronto Villa]

Yet he persists with Gestede. The Gabby thing is more about attitude and conduct as it is about ability. Gabby thinks he's King Shit down there and Garde is the first manager to call him on it.

[Villafirst]

It's a results business, and Garde hasn't even got close to a win. He deserves to go for continually picking a fence post as Centre Forward.

[PaulWinch again]

No he doesn't, he deserves a chance to build a proper squad.

[Ian.]

No he doesn't, he deserves a chance to build a proper squad.

Well said that man.

[andyh]

I don't think I want him gone, just yet.
But he has done very little to show he is upto the job.

He may conduct himself better than Sherwood, but that's not difficult. I think though, even Sherwood would have scraped a win or 10 in the last games.

[berneboy]

No he doesn't, he deserves a chance to build a proper squad.

Well said that man.

Indeed

[AndyB6]

Garde needs two windows to try and shape his own squad. He has inherited the poorest squad / side out of all Villa managers in the modern era. The squad / team O'Neill inherited was a million times better than the present lot :-/

[pauliewalnuts]

One thing I don't get is that we frequently hear people say it is the buying of inexperienced young French players which is the problem, yet if you look at the players most frequently listed as being at fault here, it isn't the young French players at all - Guzan, Lescott, Bacuna, Richards, Richardson,Clark, Westwood, Gabby etc - these aren't the recent purchases.

The only one of the recently purchased who looks like a huge waste of money is Gestede, and he is not young or an import from the French league.

The problem is, he was replacing the player we most needed to replace well.

[PaulWinch again]

I don't think I want him gone, just yet.
But he has done very little to show he is upto the job.

He may conduct himself better than Sherwood, but that's not difficult. I think though, even Sherwood would have scraped a win or 10 in the last games.

Not sure why you think that, he failed to win in his last 9 league games with us.

[ciggiesnbeer]

I don't think I want him gone, just yet.
But he has done very little to show he is upto the job.

He may conduct himself better than Sherwood, but that's not difficult. I think though, even Sherwood would have scraped a win or 10 in the last games.

Not sure why you think that, he failed to win in his last 9 league games with us.

Not to say Sherwood is better but to be fair to him I think we looked more likely to win some of those games. Gardes Villa looks tactically smarter but confidence wise just shot to hell.

What makes me extra sad is I really beleive Garde will be gone by the end of the season. Thats a shame because I would like to see what he can do over some time. Sadly I think he will walk/get axed and replaced with some British/Irish plodder who "understands the Championship".

God help us.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

I mentioned it on here a while ago that in interview Garde referred to issues he was aware of at the club before he took the job, and once here "discovered" a few more which he wasn't aware of but obviously felt needed dealing with. Not actually knowing any "facts" but reading between the lines, I should imagine one of the issues he has found is the attitude of some key players - Gabby? etc - and another for me would be the poor quality of some of the playing staff. We all know that these problems have been there for the last 4/5 seasons, yet Garde seems to be the only one who has started to address them - Gabby/N'Zogbia.
At present he can only work with what he's got. I should imagine he would love to clear out the vast majority of them and start with players who have a desire to succeed personally and for the club that employs them and pays them well, but contracts work two ways and players will hang on until something better comes along, regardless of sentiment/loyalty etc. see Delph. F.
I genuinely think Garde wants to do well here and has the backing of those upstairs to do so, but knows his hands are tied by a poor squad ( & their contracts), especially the senior pro's; the media and our (fans') expectations.
(His frustration pitchside and in interview are obvious...he wants to change things but is restricted by the squad/conditions he has inherited.) 

[auntiesledd]

I don't think I want him gone, just yet.
But he has done very little to show he is upto the job.

He may conduct himself better than Sherwood, but that's not difficult. I think though, even Sherwood would have scraped a win or 10 in the last games.

Not sure why you think that, he failed to win in his last 9 league games with us.

Not to say Sherwood is better but to be fair to him I think we looked more likely to win some of those games. Gardes Villa looks tactically smarter but confidence wise just shot to hell.

What makes me extra sad is I really beleive Garde will be gone by the end of the season. Thats a shame because I would like to see what he can do over some time. Sadly I think he will walk/get axed and replaced with some British/Irish plodder who "understands the Championship".

God help us.

I'm not sure whether the confidence was totally shot at the end of Sherwood's 'reign' or soon after Garde started, but I certainly think that it's been coming for a while now. I too believe that Remi won't be given the opportunity to rebuild the squad - be it through him walking or being relieved of his duties - and I have no faith in the abilities of the powers-that-be to finally make the correct appointment(s) from here or overseas. The exit of Lerner & Co is probably the only way our club is ever going to move on from these shite times, so all I can do is echo your parting line of "God Help us".   

[ciggiesnbeer]

Indeed, some divine intervention would be helpful right about now