Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[Villafirst]

This Almstadt sounds a right jerk. What with number cruncher Hollis now involved were heading for League 1 with the boards "Strategy" What a mess - give these board wankers both barrels today!

[Adam Gittins]

What everybody other than Remi Garde does not understand is that it is essential for the club not to wither and die between now and May. What Garde knows, because he is an intelligent football man and they are not is that the close season between May and August is not long enough to rebuild a squad so full of weakness in so many positions, so low in confidence and so riven by dissent.

Quite. My one hope is that Remi will make this point clear and Hollis, as a chairman rather than an exec, will have had less direct involvement in actual negotiations and will in fact now hold those accountable who made such a mess of it. If in fact we have just followed through on a transfer strategy that was agreed after the disastrous Christmas run of results then surely Remi would have known about it before the 1st of February?

I am of course clutching at straws.

[Steve67]

Momentum is key, we have to accept that many teams we play against next season will raise their game when they play us. Making it doubly difficult to get out of the Championship quickly. Debuchy probably wasn't needed in truth, but would have added a little quality and perhaps helped to slow the decline into the second tier. Garde should have Benn backed.

[Ads]

I don't think he'll walk, he's just making sure his hand is stronger come May to pick the five or so incoming players he will need aid in brassing the Championship up.

The last thing the board need or want to be doing is searching for a new manager in May. They've hung him out to dry in January and all parties know that, which gives Garde leverage come transfer time in the summer; back me or I'll walk and you risk hanging around with the Micky Mouse clubs indefinitely.

[Rigadon]

I don't think he's being that calculated, Ads.  Rather, I think he's trying to live down the clubs collective failure in not managing to sign a single football player in a month-long transfer window.  He is the only one being interviewed about it after all.

I know the damned if they do argument, but the fact the clubs hierarchy hasn't made any statement about signing players means that Garde has to. 

I think he'll be off come May and also that the club are already be sounding out future managers.

[oswald funkletrumpet]

I don't think he's being that calculated, Ads.  Rather, I think he's trying to live down the clubs collective failure in not managing to sign a single football player in a month-long transfer window.  He is the only one being interviewed about it after all.

I know the damned if they do argument, but the fact the clubs hierarchy hasn't made any statement about signing players means that Garde has to. 

I think he'll be off come May and also that the club are already be sounding out future managers.

agree with that

cant see how them fucking him over and him taking it makes his hand stronger, more like the opposite for me

[Ormy Droid]

We simply had to get a striker in, even if you accept that we're going down. While we can muddle along with Bunn in goal, and Richards playing right back, the failure to sign anyone slightly more capable of scoring a goal (or even moving) than our current trio of lumbering forwards, has put paid to any hopes we might string together a few victories. So come the summer we'll still have the narrative of 'basket case football club' swirling around us, no confidence, no momentum, and in all likelihood no manager either.

[aj2k77]

Trouble is when he goes in May, who the hell do we go for?

Pearson is the most likely but no one would want him surely.

Monk looks like the second coming of Paul Jewell to me, Swansea were wretched under him for a long time before he was sacked.

Moyes won't touch it.

I would go for someone like Warbutton but even he, with Rangers back in the SPL next season I doubt would take it.

Dyche is going to get Burnley up so looks highly unlikely

It is not an inspiring list of what is available.

Plus they'd need to be willing to be undermined and screwed over by gormless suits hiding behind the scenes avoiding the real flak whilst they get called a wanker every other weekend. So basically someone desperate.

[kippaxvilla2]

Hollis really has had one of the worst starts to any Club appointment I can remember. The man has not put a foot right.

Randy Lerner appointment In Terrible Start....Shocker.

[kippaxvilla2]

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/remi-garde-need-decide-whether-10848478

That's him off then.

[brian green]

That was blindingly obvious when he said I shall be here in May. He knew the full implications of what he was saying.

[john e]

Hollis really has had one of the worst starts to any Club appointment I can remember. The man has not put a foot right.

Randy Lerner appointment In Terrible Start....Shocker.

He is our very own Mr Bumble with little Remi playing Oliver asking for more

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I don't think he'll walk, he's just making sure his hand is stronger come May to pick the five or so incoming players he will need aid in brassing the Championship up.

The last thing the board need or want to be doing is searching for a new manager in May. They've hung him out to dry in January and all parties know that, which gives Garde leverage come transfer time in the summer; back me or I'll walk and you risk hanging around with the Micky Mouse clubs indefinitely.

I hope for once you're right, Ads.

[kippaxvilla2]

Trouble is when he goes in May, who the hell do we go for?

Pearson is the most likely but no one would want him surely.

Monk looks like the second coming of Paul Jewell to me, Swansea were wretched under him for a long time before he was sacked.

Moyes won't touch it.

I would go for someone like Warbutton but even he, with Rangers back in the SPL next season I doubt would take it.

Dyche is going to get Burnley up so looks highly unlikely

It is not an inspiring list of what is available.

Plus they'd need to be willing to be undermined and screwed over by gormless suits hiding behind the scenes avoiding the real flak whilst they get called a wanker every other weekend. So basically someone desperate.

It will more than likely be someone none of us ever gave a thought to from a far flung land that is going to fit in with 'the exciting project.'  Us trying to be ingenious and thinking of someone that no one else has thought of and then wondering why it doesn't work in the shit kickers league.

Sometimes our custodians remind me of the Tom Baker line in Blackadder on the need for a crew on a ship.  'Opinion is divided on it.  Every other sailor says you need a crew, I say you don't.'

[Gregorys Boy]

If he does leave and we got pearson, I would be happy with that, but I do think to have to replace another manager would be a blow.  With a bit of luck the club and current manager are planning for the Championship, and we can get a few solid Championship pros in during the summer.