Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[Des Little]

This is.professional sport. If you don't like or want pressure, then McDonalds are hiring.

Garde won't get a job there. It took him 6 weeks to realise we needed a Bunn.


Sorry, I'll let myself out.

[pbavfckuwait]

Garde is well aware without proper financial support, not now but in the summer, the squad he will be left with, will not get out of that division and indeed will struggle to survive.
One thing I never ever felt Villa fans were, was arrogant, but to listen to some on here, we drop down to the Championship, because who we are all the other teams roll over and up we come again and can't we have some lovely days out whilst this is happening.
We have a team representing Aston Villa that has won, yes won two league games on the 1st Feb from a season that started first week of August, in what I would describe as the most average Premier league for some very long time, in fact probably ever.
Garde has seen through the bull and as stated as decent as a man he appears to be, come May its bye bye Reg and Basil.

[Ads]

If this squad we have now was in the Championship, we'd be in the play offs.

It needs strengthening and improving, even if we go down as looks highly likely, but that would be to ensure we brass the division up. I cannot get away from the fact that somebody as poor as Gestede destroyed Championship defences. He'd be on the bench for us [fingers crossed]. There won't be too many 2nd Division outfits with a striker capable of scoring 20 goals sat on the subs bench.

I've taken an interest in the Championship sky offerings since it looked likely we'd be joining the dead men down there and I am actually quite shocked at how rank the quality is. Even the better sides look mince.

[Ron Manager]

Saying that though Jack had never scored a goal and Carles was a 1 in 12 before he joined us, neither of them were going to be prolific. We went all in on this mid table championship striker idea.

That's what's so frustrating.  A half decent centre forward alongside Ayew and I reckon we'd have converted at least a third of a draws into wins and a couple of defeats (Watford for one) into draws, leaving us bang in the fight.

I just don't understand the summer thinking. First we tried Begovic because we know we had a bad un between the posts, couldn't get him, lined no one up instead. Second we tried Adebayor, bonkers idea anyway but we couldn't get him and instead drop a division and pay relative peanuts for a gamble.

It almost felt like we were losing Benteke and the club have gone ''right, who's good in the air?'' Paddy Reilly looks up the headed goals stats and see Gestede top of the list and then we buy him thinking it's a great idea. I can't believe anyone has watched Gestede for any length of time and thought he could fit in to this team.

I do remember comments on here when we knew Benteke was going about signing him, way before we did.
Yes from me I'm afraid.I thought he would be really good. Well time has proved me wrong.

[oldhill_avfc]

Saying that though Jack had never scored a goal and Carles was a 1 in 12 before he joined us, neither of them were going to be prolific. We went all in on this mid table championship striker idea.

That's what's so frustrating.  A half decent centre forward alongside Ayew and I reckon we'd have converted at least a third of a draws into wins and a couple of defeats (Watford for one) into draws, leaving us bang in the fight.

I just don't understand the summer thinking. First we tried Begovic because we know we had a bad un between the posts, couldn't get him, lined no one up instead. Second we tried Adebayor, bonkers idea anyway but we couldn't get him and instead drop a division and pay relative peanuts for a gamble.

It almost felt like we were losing Benteke and the club have gone ''right, who's good in the air?'' Paddy Reilly looks up the headed goals stats and see Gestede top of the list and then we buy him thinking it's a great idea. I can't believe anyone has watched Gestede for any length of time and thought he could fit in to this team.

I've heard it said that that's pretty much what happened except that when it became apparent that the Adebeyor deal was dead Sherwood was presented with a list of possible alternatives and pointed to Gestede.

It's also noticeable that the signings that are obvious Sherwood signings all come from the MON school of transfers.  Minimum 5 years experience in PL/Championship or SPL required.

I don't see there's that much difference between 'Sherwood's signings' vs. 'committe signings'.

Take Gestede vs. Ayew.  Gestede has got 4 in 22 (according to Wiki) and might have done more with better crosses to feed off.  Ayew has got 5 in 18 and might have done more with a better partner up front.  Hardly inspiring is it?

Let's face it, none of the midfield or forwards look like being good enough for the premiership should we ever get promoted again. 

[frank]

Not having a decent striker a club is not his fault. But he Knows we haven't got one, he see's that, but he has done nothing to compensate for it.
Playing the game at walking pace, tippy tappy football the breaks down to nothing time and time and time again, 20 yards from goal, yet we persist with the same approach every single game.

At 2-0 up Man City defended deep and were happy to give us lots of possession, knowing that after 20 passes we'd either pass the ball to the edge of the box and lose it or get into a tangle and pass back to Clark or Richards. No urgency, no penetration.

[FranzBiberkopf]

Let's face it, none of the midfield or forwards look like being good enough for the premiership should we ever get promoted again.

I go along with that. To me, Ayew and Veretout might be ok if they had a top notch partner alongside them. Arguably Gil, Grealish and Gana fall in that category too. But you could probably say that for 90% of the forwards / midfielders in the league too.

At best, they're average to bottom half of PL players those lot. Certainly not good enough to hide the shortcomings of the rest of the squad (like Delph and Benteke arguably did over the last 2 years).

[pbavfckuwait]

Not down to Garde, but when was the last time we had a midfield player that actually chipped in with double figures for a season, central defenders and the full backs chipping in with 10 between them. For the last 3 years we relied on Benteke pure and simple, we have not gone from being a free scoring team to drought conditions on the goal scoring front, this problem has not been addressed for years, we have had the fall back card that Gabby would come in and score a few important ones, but again what is his record over the last 4 seasons, I am sure it makes dreadful reading.
Plenty of signs there, but they needed to be in brail for anyone at Villa to read them.

[oldhill_avfc]

Not down to Garde, but when was the last time we had a midfield player that actually chipped in with double figures for a season, central defenders and the full backs chipping in with 10 between them. For the last 3 years we relied on Benteke pure and simple, we have not gone from being a free scoring team to drought conditions on the goal scoring front, this problem has not been addressed for years, we have had the fall back card that Gabby would come in and score a few important ones, but again what is his record over the last 4 seasons, I am sure it makes dreadful reading.
Plenty of signs there, but they needed to be in brail for anyone at Villa to read them.

Milner, Young, Downing - might have got into double figures.

[PaulWinch again]

‘It was also a financial problem, yes. But it is not my job to explain that to you again. Probably the club realised mistakes has been made in the past, probably they didn’t want to do it again.
‘As a new manager I would have expected new faces to support my change. Not only for me but the club, team, squad to be strengthen very good decision. We missed these two targets. It’s unfortunate.’
Garde added: ‘It took me a few weeks to have an assessment and I made a recommendation to the board to try to sign players to the team, we need that. ‘Some games we are close to compete, then we need a little bit of quality. I cannot do more. I tried to sign them, I worked on very hard, but for different reasons we couldn’t.’


That'll be Garde out of the door soon then. Our board are absolutely fucking hopeless.

[Des Little]

He's said he'll stay until the end of the season, then I think he could well walk...and I don't think anyone would blame him.

[aev]

He looked thoroughly hacked off in the press conference.

[BC Villain]

Seems like a man whose at the end of tether.

[PaulWinch again]

It is genuinely staggering that Lerner and the people he appointed seem hell bent of devaluing the club.

[aj2k77]

He probably feels there's no point in him being here. He's answering for other peoples mistakes and questions on things he has no control over. He's got to get us scoring with the carthorse brothers up front and a midfield that creates more goals for the opposition than they do for us. He's seen the squad now, knows it's mostly guff from top to bottom and he's on a hiding to nothing. He'll walk in June and we will appoint some twat head hunted by Fuck face Fox to perform a miracle on pennies and face the flak those ****** should be facing every day.