Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[ClaretAndBlueBlood]

ha ha very true

[Holte L2]

Huttons positioning is terrible. He must play wearing an invisible blind fold. He hasn't got better at all. He just tries.

No he's shite, but he's better than Bacuna, and still probably more reliable than Richards has been thus far. Micah is awful at CH and clearly doesn't want to play at RB.
In fact every senior player we have who can play right back needs shifting this summer. And that also says everything about what Garde has been dealt.

I thought Micah played very well at Right back against The Albion and West Ham.

[Phil from the upper holte]

Huttons positioning is terrible. He must play wearing an invisible blind fold. He hasn't got better at all. He just tries.

No he's shite, but he's better than Bacuna, and still probably more reliable than Richards has been thus far. Micah is awful at CH and clearly doesn't want to play at RB.
In fact every senior player we have who can play right back needs shifting this summer. And that also says everything about what Garde has been dealt.

I thought Micah played very well at Right back against The Albion and West Ham.

he was ok, should have been sent off against the Albion, Still better than Hutton, one of the most frustrating players i've seen in a Villa shirt in my 30 odd years as a Villa fan

[David_Nab]

If you look at Klopp who is regarded as one of the best coaches in the world he has made little difference to the Liverpool team as he is stuck with Rodgers's squad same as Remi here.

I think  Remi in general has made us harder to beat and we look fitter , the problem is we lack goals and if he plays any other combination than Lescot/Okore at CB we are a shambles in defence.

[Dave]

Huttons on 40k pw, it's going to be hard finding anyone dumb enough to pay for him and his wages.

According to who? I think that was reported as his wage when he joined us, but given he's signed a new contract since then I can't imagine we gave the same terms to somebody who we'd been actively trying to get rid of for most of this time with us.

Good point, completely forgot he signed a new contract last year. It should have a relegation clause in it too now which is something else I was worried about.

I dunno. After our treatment of him, I wouldn't imagine he'd have reduced his wage demands by much, if at all. I reckon he's on 30k at the very least.

I'd be surprised - bear in mind that in that time he had loan spells at Mallorca and Bolton and didn't seem to attract any interest from anybody interested in buying him permanently. So if he didn't sign whatever we put under his nose, he was likely looking at Bolton/Mallorca level wages for his next contract.

[Rigadon]

Sherwood lost 9 games in a row didn't he? So the fact Remi has got us several draws shows the progress

I think what it shows is that Garde has improved us from being a truly awful side to being one that has improved very very slightly. I think it also shows us how low our expectations have become that we accept this

I'm inclined to agree. 

[supertom]

Huttons positioning is terrible. He must play wearing an invisible blind fold. He hasn't got better at all. He just tries.

No he's shite, but he's better than Bacuna, and still probably more reliable than Richards has been thus far. Micah is awful at CH and clearly doesn't want to play at RB.
In fact every senior player we have who can play right back needs shifting this summer. And that also says everything about what Garde has been dealt.

I thought Micah played very well at Right back against The Albion and West Ham.

he was ok, should have been sent off against the Albion, Still better than Hutton, one of the most frustrating players i've seen in a Villa shirt in my 30 odd years as a Villa fan

It didn't seem to me like Micah really wants to be there. Whether he's happy to stay long term at Right back I don't know. He's made us look a little better defensively though, in fairness. He's not really bombing forward quite as we might have hoped though.

I think Hutton's problem, particularly since coming back under Lambert and then under Timmeh, is the fact he's been expected to provide our width on the right and at a point last season when we couldn't score goals under Lamberk, Hutton was actually our playmaker. He was the one player who seemed to have the onus on him to create. Which given he's crap with a ball at his feet, is ridiculous. He'd be far better if he was tasked with just defending and rarely crossing the half way line, which ironically Richards seems largely to be doing, despite having more ability to get up and down the line at speed.

[peter w]

Its all about opinions.  Sherwood  had his  hands tied as well with regards to transfers.  With the players I mentioned in my post before, he had us playing towards the end of last season and apart from the final we had our Villa back.  Forget Southampton and  Burnley games just before the cup final - remember we beat Ipswich 6-1 the week  before they  beat Arsenal  in 78.

Garde has to date overseen two very bad  4-0 defeats.  I am not saying Garde is such a bad manger but neither was Sherwood.

Actually the Southampton defeat was a  big warning sign we ignored ,those last 3 games inc the final we were hopeless , we were poor in preseason and carried on into this season the same way.
In terms of the transfers I can have sympathy that his hands were tied with some players , however the ones he picked Gestede and Richards have been woeful.

I said it at the time but I think the warning signs started in the second-half v West Ham. I thought we were flat and a little aimless. I worried then that something was amiss and that we were running out of steam. Southampton was one week later.

[seanthevillan]

Huttons positioning is terrible. He must play wearing an invisible blind fold. He hasn't got better at all. He just tries.

No he's shite, but he's better than Bacuna, and still probably more reliable than Richards has been thus far. Micah is awful at CH and clearly doesn't want to play at RB.
In fact every senior player we have who can play right back needs shifting this summer. And that also says everything about what Garde has been dealt.

I thought Micah played very well at Right back against The Albion and West Ham.

he was ok, should have been sent off against the Albion, Still better than Hutton, one of the most frustrating players i've seen in a Villa shirt in my 30 odd years as a Villa fan

It didn't seem to me like Micah really wants to be there. Whether he's happy to stay long term at Right back I don't know. He's made us look a little better defensively though, in fairness. He's not really bombing forward quite as we might have hoped though.

I think Hutton's problem, particularly since coming back under Lambert and then under Timmeh, is the fact he's been expected to provide our width on the right and at a point last season when we couldn't score goals under Lamberk, Hutton was actually our playmaker. He was the one player who seemed to have the onus on him to create. Which given he's crap with a ball at his feet, is ridiculous. He'd be far better if he was tasked with just defending and rarely crossing the half way line, which ironically Richards seems largely to be doing, despite having more ability to get up and down the line at speed.

I agree - the Stoke game was the perfect example of this. Hutton, I think, has by and large done his best this season, he's just a very limited player.

[claret and blue blood]

Hutton is dreadful , Cissoko is similar going forward ( useless) but his positional play and interceptions when defending is OK whereas Hutton is terrible a that to.
I hate seeing him in the lineup along with Guzan , Clark Richardson and Gestede, all of whom are terrible.

[PaulWinch again]

 Garde said: "Modern football is about more short term than long term. In my case it's more about winning the next game."

That's a bit worrying, as previously he's talked very much in terms of it being a project he's working on. Also apparently he'll 'probably' review his future in the summer.

[old man villa fan]

Garde said: "Modern football is about more short term than long term. In my case it's more about winning the next game."

That's a bit worrying, as previously he's talked very much in terms of it being a project he's working on. Also apparently he'll 'probably' review his future in the summer.

The key word there is 'more'. To stay up, we have to win and that is what he is getting at.

[Ormy Droid]

Well, after the transfer window that's just gone he'd be a fool not to be reviewing his future in the summer, whether you believe the club was unwilling or simply unable to back him or not. Lumping him (pun intended) with Agbonlahor again after everything Remi intimated about Gabba the Gut, probably being the final straw.

[Billy Walker]

Fair play to Pete Colley at the manager's press conference. He asked plenty of questions to highlight the stupidity of the Villa boardroom and pointed out to Remi how the fans are behind him.  I'm saddened that Remi was unable to confirm he would be with us beyond season's end, though.  The fact that we - yet again - have this wave of managerial instability flowing through the Club tells me - yet again - that those people in the Villa boardroom are totally incompetent. 

[tomd2103]

Its all about opinions.  Sherwood  had his  hands tied as well with regards to transfers.  With the players I mentioned in my post before, he had us playing towards the end of last season and apart from the final we had our Villa back.  Forget Southampton and  Burnley games just before the cup final - remember we beat Ipswich 6-1 the week  before they  beat Arsenal  in 78.

Garde has to date overseen two very bad  4-0 defeats.  I am not saying Garde is such a bad manger but neither was Sherwood.

Actually the Southampton defeat was a  big warning sign we ignored ,those last 3 games inc the final we were hopeless , we were poor in preseason and carried on into this season the same way.
In terms of the transfers I can have sympathy that his hands were tied with some players , however the ones he picked Gestede and Richards have been woeful.

I said it at the time but I think the warning signs started in the second-half v West Ham. I thought we were flat and a little aimless. I worried then that something was amiss and that we were running out of steam. Southampton was one week later.

Totally agree Peter.  It was as if all the momentum of the previous few weeks just ebbed away and we were left hanging on.  We were awful after that.