Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[claret and blue blood]

You can see why Remi's priority was a keeper, as much as Bunn has calmed things down and done very well , there is no doubt a class keeper would make us even better defensively. Add that to a striker worthy of the name and a midfielder to replace Bacuna/ Sanchez and we would have a real shout , particularly if we'd signed them early in the window and nicked a few more points. Remi has done well with the tools ( no pun intended) at his disposal and it is very frustrating the board hadn't the balls to back him in our hour of need.

[Toronto Villa]

Pearson is exactly the sort of offensive dick that any club with a desire to hang on to a shred of pride should avoid like the plague. He's fucking nuts, and not pleasant, quirky nuts either, he's proper nasty.

Agree
But he's exactly the type of manager this board will turn to if a Garde walks/leaves

The 'project' will be dead in the water, they won't be looking for the next experiment they will do what the media and the pundits say and appoint that twat
I know they could have looked at Pearson last time but they thought they would take the risk and go with something new and fresh, not next time they will take no risks, he's right up Hollis's street in my opinion

Sadly I would go as far to say that if Garde goes he's nailed on to be our next manager

but why will they turn to him, or is that our inner fear speaking? Pearson was available the we hired Garde and we didn't go for him. He would have been much easier to get. Instead the board didn't go for any of the run of the mill managers that were available and it appeared that they had a transfer policy and brought a manager out of retirement that met with what they were trying to do. For the first time in forever there was some semblance of a plan. I'm not saying it's not possible because of the TSM affair, but I don't think it is at all nailed on for him to be out manager.

[pauliewalnuts]

Pearson is exactly the sort of offensive dick that any club with a desire to hang on to a shred of pride should avoid like the plague. He's fucking nuts, and not pleasant, quirky nuts either, he's proper nasty.

Agree
But he's exactly the type of manager this board will turn to if a Garde walks/leaves

The 'project' will be dead in the water, they won't be looking for the next experiment they will do what the media and the pundits say and appoint that twat
I know they could have looked at Pearson last time but they thought they would take the risk and go with something new and fresh, not next time they will take no risks, he's right up Hollis's street in my opinion

Sadly I would go as far to say that if Garde goes he's nailed on to be our next manager

but why will they turn to him, or is that our inner fear speaking? Pearson was available the we hired Garde and we didn't go for him. He would have been much easier to get. Instead the board didn't go for any of the run of the mill managers that were available and it appeared that they had a transfer policy and brought a manager out of retirement that met with what they were trying to do. For the first time in forever there was some semblance of a plan. I'm not saying it's not possible because of the TSM affair, but I don't think it is at all nailed on for him to be out manager.

They had a plan and promptly fucked it up by pissing the manager off.

We fear they'll appoint a moron like Pearson because, although they have got it right with Garde, they get it wrong more often than not (Tim Sherwood and the "list of one", for example)

[brian green]

If they allow Remi Garde to leave, that single act of ineptitude will define their incompetence. It will be the big bow tied to their box of blunders.

Their incompetence will be insatiable and they will turn inevitably to a manager who is as desperate to rehabilitate himself as they will be.  Pearson, surfing a wave called the Leicester Phenomenon.

[Legion]

Pearson? No thanks.

[SamTheMouse]

Look @ Leicester now...........Its 75/80% his team they have carried on from where they left off last season with a couple of notable tweaks i.e
Kante,etc

Or you could look at it another way, and say that Pearson could only get that team scraping an escape from relegation, whereas Ranieri has them top of the league.

So who's the better manager?

[Stirchley Villain]

Look @ Leicester now...........Its 75/80% his team they have carried on from where they left off last season with a couple of notable tweaks i.e
Kante,etc

Or you could look at it another way, and say that Pearson could only get that team scraping an escape from relegation, whereas Ranieri has them top of the league.

So who's the better manager?

It's like film directors... The great ones can become shit and the rubbish ones can become great. On a different note, are there any players in the Leicester team you would have had in the Villa 1st 11 in August?

[aj2k77]

Schmeichel, Huth, Vardy, Drinkwater, Inler

[Villa in Denmark]

Pearson? Personally no thanks. He's a passive aggressive, bullying twat, that dishes out the weird quotes and 1000 yard stares in interviews because he's paranoid people will notice he's actually as thick as the pig shit in addition to being twice as unpleasant.

Can't see the club looking at him. They've appointed some awful managers, but they've all appeared like reasonable human beings, albeit most saw Sherwood as a bit of a gobshite, whereas Pearson is the sort of character that's the unsub in Criminal Minds.

[Steve67]

Mourinho, Rodgers, Moyes, Monk and Pearson are all available as it stands. If Remi does walk, I have no faith that the board will approach someone already in work and doing a great job. From the list provided, with the numpties we have in charge of the club, I'd make Pearson red hot favourite and the board to state that they have appointed the Manager of their dreams and to take the project, you know, the proud history, bright future one, forward.  Let's hope Remi stays eh?

[Villa in Denmark]

Forgot to add Garde is the first manager since Houllier I'd trust with significant funding.  Whether it's forthcoming is another matter, but someone like Garde with MON's funding in 2007-10?

[paul_e]

Schmeichel, Huth, Vardy, Drinkwater, Inler

Sorry I don't buy it, if that question had been asked in the summer Cambiasso and Schmeichel would've been mentioned heavily and a few would've included Huth and maybe Albrighton (purely for nostalgia reasons in the main, and I'm saying that as someone who rates him highly and wouldn't have let him go), the 4 players who have made them the team they are are Mahrez, Kante, Drinkwater and Vardy - 3 who'd been shit to average the year before and the 4th looked a lesser signing than both of the central midfielders we signed from France in the summer.

[Stirchley Villain]

Schmeichel, Huth, Vardy, Drinkwater, Inler

You're joking aren't you?! Anyone suggesting Vardy got booed off on this site when it was floated that we buy him. Schmeicher would have been too if anyone would have even thought of him. Huth has always been considered a donkey on here, and to have suggested signing him would have only pointed to how low we'd sunk...

[PeterWithesShin]

Mahrez. And I can say that because I said on here how he impressed me after the cup game last season. Vardy I wouldn't have touched with a barge pole, last season he looked like a shit version of Weimann.

[Stirchley Villain]

Mahrez. And I can say that because I said on here how he impressed me after the cup game last season. Vardy I wouldn't have touched with a barge pole, last season he looked like a shit version of Weimann.

How's Andi doing these days..?