Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[olaftab]

Do any of you know where Remi lives in Birmingham ?

In a house.

[Ian.]

Do any of you know where Remi lives in Birmingham ?

In a house.

Well my source tells me it might be a very big house.

[trevor fisher]

Garde's interview in which he says that he will stay even in the CHampionship if he gets funds poses the question - do we want him to stay? My view is emphatically YES. While he has not had the spectacular turn around we want, the longer view is that Villa have been a master class in how not to run a football club under Lerner, the medium term view has to be that he has shown that he is capable of understanding the problems facing the Villa, and the short term view that in the next transfer window he has to be backed by the club with funds. That he did not walk when the massive snub to his judgement by having no players signed in the January window suggests he is committed

On the long term view we have shown two factors don't work. SPending big money is useless if the money is not well spent. If Lerner has spent £300 million he has nothing to show for it. Five successive relegation struggles and its fair that he is reluctant to spend more without a manager he can trust. Garde now knows the players and the problems, Villa have very deep rooted problems. There are no instant answers, what he can do remains to be seen but I like the appointment of Eric Black, a Ferguson graduate who has worked in France and speaks French... promising in many respects.

Its also fascinating that he is so calm and thoughtful. Occurs to me he has every incentive to succeed at the Villa. There is a bigger job coming up in the next 3-4 years. Arsenal. Wenger is coming to the end of his career. Whether as straight manager or assistant with a view to stepping up, Garde will make or break any chance of the Arsenal job he is so fitted for on paper. The Villa board should back him. He has to be better than continually changing managers. We have shown that like spending money, sacking the boss is no miracle cure.

Trevor Fisher.

[Deano's Mullet]

Yes he should. I think we have a decent manager in the making. look at the rubbish left to him and he's slowly starting to turn it around. I can see him doing well in either the Championship or the Premier League. BUT he needs backing. We wont do anything if this cowardly and useless board stays as it is.

[ozzjim]

Do any of you know where Remi lives in Birmingham ?

In a house.

Well my source tells me it might be a very big house.

I heard it was in the country.

[KevinGage]

Garde ending up as Arsenal manager is as likely as Steve Bruce or Royston Keane getting the Yanited job.

[Toronto Villa]

talk of Garde ending up at Arsenal is no different to the hyperbole that surrounded Lambert joining us. That somehow we were going to be this stepping stone to him ending up at Dortmund. He did end up at a side beginning with B mind you but it wasn't where some thought he'd end up. There is a million miles between us and Arsenal, and if he ends up anywhere as good as that then we'll have done really, really well. In fact so well, that we might be just as attractive a proposition for him to stay longer.

[mr underhill]

I suppose if you scrunch up your eyes and then blink rapidly a few times, Dortmund does look a bit like Blackburn

[brian green]

Eyes really scrunched up but I can't for the life of me spot the Mercs, Audi's and BMWs in Blackburn or the food banks and kebab vans in Dortmund.

On topic and with my betting hat on I suspect Remi will eventually finish up at the Arsenal but via somewhere else, a knight's move. Two forward and one to the side.  Maybe a national coach.  I just want him to stay long enough to put all the crap behind us.

[ciggiesnbeer]

talk of Garde ending up at Arsenal is no different to the hyperbole that surrounded Lambert joining us. That somehow we were going to be this stepping stone to him ending up at Dortmund. He did end up at a side beginning with B mind you but it wasn't where some thought he'd end up. There is a million miles between us and Arsenal, and if he ends up anywhere as good as that then we'll have done really, really well. In fact so well, that we might be just as attractive a proposition for him to stay longer.

True, it makes me feel sad thinking back to how hopeful we were that our problems with Lambert would be keeping hold of him. Sigh.

[brian green]

Lambert either was not what we thought he was at Colchester and Norwich or he had some sort of major upheaval in his life that changed him when he was with us.  I have always suspected that it was the latter.  Perhaps his conduct at Blackburn will tell us which is the real Paul Lambert.  If he tries to do a Sherwood and back page himself from responsibility for his time with us it will give us a good idea of his true identity. 

[mr underhill]

didn't he get divorced whilst managing us? From experience a very traumatic process, especially when children are involved, and that's without the burden of  managing the mighty yet dysfunctional Villa

[passitsideways]

The way I saw it with Lambert was that the fact that Norwich flew up two divisions meant that he had no reason/opportunity to develop contingencies for those occasions when his plan A didn't work, which accordingly meant that with us, given our crap squad and lack of funds, he basically had no breathing room for experimentation.

[Risso]

One of the big factors Lambert had was that he inherited a side with Grant Holt in it, who was too good for the lower leagues, and hit the sort of purple patch that players like Vardy are going through now, and carried that on for one season in the Premier League.  You just cannot understate the importance of a regular goal scorer to the fortunes of a manager.  Say Gestede had come in and not looked like Bambi in leg braces, and was on 15 goals for the season.  Sprinkle those 15 goals around our results randomly and we'd probably be comfortably top half, and we'd all be saying what a genius Tim Sherwood is.

[Chico Hamilton III]

13 games left - it was at this point last season that Sherwood took over.