There's an article in the Evening Rag with Remi saying he has told the board precise details of what he wants to do this month and going forwards, he says they know exactly what he wants and now lets see.I get the feeling he hasn't been given the go ahead to approach anyone just yet and the decision will be made during the meeting this week.
This shows that probably there are undesirables http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/remi-garde-asks-board-back-10718691
Quote from: old man villa fan on January 11, 2016, 10:06:49 PMAs I have said before, my approach to the players that do not want to give it all for the club is not to pay them off but to exclude them from the squad and tell them to stay away from the club. We will still have to pay their wages but seeing their careers going down the pan without football might just make a few think about asking to be transferred.They were saying on the radio earlier that it is not so simple to just exclude players from a squad. They said that the players union would get involved on the grounds that you are stopping a person from plying his profession. Apparently, whilst training, a club has got to make a qualified coach available to there players, or something to that effect.
As I have said before, my approach to the players that do not want to give it all for the club is not to pay them off but to exclude them from the squad and tell them to stay away from the club. We will still have to pay their wages but seeing their careers going down the pan without football might just make a few think about asking to be transferred.
The Gabby on a free if someone will take him is true according to an itk at Smethwick but he doesn't want to take a dip in wages without some sort of payoff.
Mat Kendrick has tweeted that no statement is coming today, maybe tomorrow or maybe not at all...Mat Kendrick @MatKendrick 54m54 minutes agoRandy Lerner's statement won't be today, and I doubt it will be tomorrow, but it Shunammite be in the next week. (Or Shunammite not) #avfc
As I have said before, my approach to the players that do not want to give it all for the club is not to pay them off but to exclude them from the squad and tell them to stay away from the club. We will still have to pay their wages but seeing their careers going down the pan without football might just make a few think about asking to be transferred.I think Garde should start to pull together a group of the younger players and building some spirit amongst them that might start to snowball a bit. Start this now and it might be a springboard for next season. It will be divisive but something has to be done to change what appears to be a lack of respect from some players towards the club and the supporters.I think there are a lot of assumptions being made about lack of discipline and splits in the dressing room without and hard evidence of this and we (myself included) may be blowing this out of proportion. However, if it is true and there is a clear ring leader or outspoken individual, I would make an example of him and suspend him from the club and bring it out into the open.
Does anyone actually expect an honest, open statement from Lerner? It'll be the usual cryptic, noncommittal or motivational shit that it's always been. Nothing to see here.