Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[Chico Hamilton III]

I don't think we'd have played worse yesterday if Sherwood or Lambert had been manager.

[Irish villain]

Interesting facts tweeted by FatMan Brazil this morning, NUFC have spent £3.4M more than 18 Bundesliga sides combined
£2.19m more than all 20 Serie A sides combined, £19.61m more than 20 La Liga sides combined and £23.7m more than all 20 Ligue 1 sides combined. They have also spent £75M since the summer. They are knackered if they down.

Can I ask why they should be? That is a reasonable spend for a premier league club which has tightened budgets for several seasons but now is re investing for the future. They can easily afford it even in the championship assuming they have got relegation cluases in the contracts.

They are not run by a bunch of yellow bellies like we are.

[Chris Smith]

Reading some of the comments he made in interviews after the game, I can see him walking once the season ends.

No doubt the press (who seem desperate for him to fail) will declare him a disaster and blame him for relegation, but what chance has he got? The board clearly won't back him and he's had no help whatsoever.

I don't see it myself. He has explicitly stated that he knew what he was letting himself in for and that he wants to be here next season. He is no fool so must have had a pretty good idea that the job was probably going to be about rebuilding after relegation but must have been convinced that the will was there to support him. I also think that structure now in place is the right way to go. Whether or not that structure is manned by the correct people only time will tell.

[pbavfckuwait]

Chris , I honestly believe what you are saying was correct, at the time of him taking the job, that has now changed and I also believe he will feel he was lied to.
He is or appears to be a straight forward person, but he is also and has been for a long time involved in professional football, I should imagine he is not a Sherwood type mouthing of to the press, but he will bide his time and allow the shit feast to be layed firmly at the feet of the owner and his off the field management set up, so his reputation remains as little as possible damaged by it and with the statements already coming out from Randys new yes man, this will be done very easily for him.

[OzVilla]

God I hope not. Garde is the one bright spot I think we've got at the moment. If he goes we'll be totally fucked.

[VillaAlways]

God I hope not. Garde is the one bright spot I think we've got at the moment. If he goes we'll be totally fucked.

Absolutely!

[ez]

I would not be surprised if Remi Garde decides to call it a day soon. He is not getting the results and I suspect the powers that be are not going to back him with needed finance to improve the club. The players he wants out have no intention of going anywhere with the contracts they are on. Much as I like the bloke I would have expected a few more points by now. But if he is getting no backing what chance does he have?  He has no chance at all.

If he goes we are truly fucked and the rest of the season will melt down in to civil war.

I have a feeling (and it is only a feeling) that Garde is no quitter and will be here a while yet.

I think so to but villa is an exceptional case, and not in a good way.

[Chris Smith]

Chris , I honestly believe what you are saying was correct, at the time of him taking the job, that has now changed and I also believe he will feel he was lied to.
He is or appears to be a straight forward person, but he is also and has been for a long time involved in professional football, I should imagine he is not a Sherwood type mouthing of to the press, but he will bide his time and allow the shit feast to be layed firmly at the feet of the owner and his off the field management set up, so his reputation remains as little as possible damaged by it and with the statements already coming out from Randys new yes man, this will be done very easily for him.

You could well be right, time will tell. I suppose my more optimistic view is based on the thought that preparing for next season while being unable to be explicit about it now would look like what we now have. I base that on Garde convincing me he is a man to be trusted and thinking that he and Fox appear to be on the same page.

[TonyD]

If Villa was a country, we'd be Zimbabwe. 

[ozzjim]

His comments yesterday suggest he will be gone in may.  If I were him I would walk tomorrow night.

[PeterWithesShin]

If Villa was a country, we'd be Zimbabwe. 

Could be worse, sha would be Scotland, play in blue, are shit, are used to failure and obsess about their bigger more successful neighbours.

[Toronto Villa]

I don't think he'll walk unless he is forced into it. He's clearly a very smart bloke and was sold a vision by Fox and Randy which I believe to be that they want to fix the club once and for all. It's the stuff that Fox and Hollis have been on alluding recently though the words sound really hollow given where we are. That we need to stop making all of the bad and impulsive decisions that have put us here and they will accept relegation as part of that long term fix. It's something that as a fan is very hard to stomach because our attention is usually on the now, and the now is really bleak.

What will terminate this relationship for Garde is if come the summer the promises bring made to him by the board are broken. So right now, I believe Garde is staying as an act of good faith. It's going to be a massively shit day when the seemingly inevitable takes place and relegation is confirmed but it will be even worse if the manager leaves. Because you know then that he'll have been deceived. So let's just hope the board come good on their word to Garde in the rebuild plans for the club.

[mr underhill]

sadly, the phrase don't hold your breath springs too easily to mind.

[VillaAlways]

His comments yesterday suggest he will be gone in may.  If I were him I would walk tomorrow night.

What did he say?

[TonyD]

If Villa was a country, we'd be Zimbabwe. 

Could be worse, sha would be Scotland, play in blue, are shit, are used to failure and obsess about their bigger more successful neighbours.

We used to be England,  great history but still well respected etc.  But down the shitter we have gone.  Randy Lerner meet Mr Robert Gabriel Mugabe.