Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[gpbarr]

Unfortunatly Remi Garde won't be here next season IMO
Unfortunatly Mr Pearson will be IMO

I think this time next year we will be dreaming of the idea we could attract a manager as good as Garde or Pearson any more.

Nailed on the mast. Once Remi walks on May 16th, the clowns running the club will immediately realize they can't attract anyone with pedigree given the shambles of the past 5 years, track record of not backing managers / squeezing out costs, and squad many of whom are not good enough and are contracted for another 3-4 years. I am going to be glad when this season ends, but more than worrying about the Championship, I'm truly frightened by whom they appoint and have literally zero confidence they will get it right.

[cheltenhamlion]

They want a continental manager who is comfortable working in the way modern clubs that are successful do. If Garde fucks off, it won't be a Pearson replacing him.

Keep an eye on the Trust website on Tuesday. I hope to have a bit more for you then.

[adrenachrome]

After the song honouring Andy Gray in he 70's.

Oh Randy, Oh Randy
You're a fuckwit
The Holte End say
Oh Randy, Oh Randy
You have fucked us in every way

Alternatives to fuckwit that spring to mind are arsehole, wank stain, cuntflute, jizz rag, spunk sock and of course halfwit.

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I don't think he'll walk away or be sacked come the end of the season.

[Tayls_7]

I don't think he'll walk away or be sacked come the end of the season.

Good. We talk about him failing to get the players playing but he is completely hamstrung right now. You watch him offload the malcontents the moment he gets the opportunity. As for boardroom backing, I'm less certain.

[LeeB]

I don't think he'll walk away or be sacked come the end of the season.

I think wether he stays or goes will tell us everything about how the club run.

If he stays, it will be because they will back him do what is required. If he walks, we'll know they haven't backed him and we'll need to start preparing ourselves for the kind of season that will make light of this one.

[CT]

Remi Garde had a dream,
To build a football team,
But Tom & Randy said
You ain't having our cash.

So we had no attack
We were worse at the back
We're Aston Villa
We might not be back.

Same tune as the one Sheffield Weds have been singing for ages. Made it up today 😀

[paul_e]

I don't think he'll walk away or be sacked come the end of the season.

Good. We talk about him failing to get the players playing but he is completely hamstrung right now. You watch him offload the malcontents the moment he gets the opportunity. As for boardroom backing, I'm less certain.

I'm not, I think that if he stays he'll get a lot of support, I know that's not the popular view on here but, like others, I think the boardroom will get a bit of a shake up in the next couple of months and I then suspect them to offer Garde a lot of support to get him to stay for another season and to convince some of the players they want to keep (veretout, ayew, okore, etc) to give us a season to get back.  I also think he'll be backed to clear out the troublemakers.

When Hollis joined he was talking about fixing the structural problems and Garde's comments this week point to a similar need so i think the aims of both work well together and I suspect Hollis will have seen that.

[olaftab]

Unfortunatly Remi Garde won't be here next season IMO
Unfortunatly Mr Pearson will be IMO

So you think he will resign? If not we can't afford to pay another manager's contract out so I think he will stay put for two reasons. One is he obviously wants to prove himself second is the money. He will make lot of money by seeing out his contract.

[john e]

Unfortunatly Remi Garde won't be here next season IMO
Unfortunatly Mr Pearson will be IMO

So you think he will resign? If not we can't afford to pay another manager's contract out so I think he will stay put for two reasons. One is he obviously wants to prove himself second is the money. He will make lot of money by seeing out his contract.

Hope your right,
but I think he's a goner come the end of the season
He won't stick around here getting fuck all support from the board and fuck all commitment from most of the so called first team players

[LeeB]

Unfortunatly Remi Garde won't be here next season IMO
Unfortunatly Mr Pearson will be IMO

So you think he will resign? If not we can't afford to pay another manager's contract out so I think he will stay put for two reasons. One is he obviously wants to prove himself second is the money. He will make lot of money by seeing out his contract.

Hope your right,
but I think he's a goner come the end of the season
He won't stick around here getting fuck all support from the board and fuck all commitment from most of the so called first team players

If the board were to promise to back him to properly, I reckon there would be a fair part of him that would want to take the opportunity to put things right, given he's hard to work through a nightmare not of his own making so far.

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I'm of a similar view Paul; the decayed tissue needs to be cut out of the patient before the recovery can commence. That's at boardroom and dressing room level.

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

I don't particularly want to get rid of Garde, but if you look at our results since he came in, they're pretty crap. I can't see why we'd be gutted to lose him.

Shit players to deal with, yes, but unable to inspire any kind of real improvement with results, that's disappointing.

[Dante Lavelli]

I don't particularly want to get rid of Garde, but if you look at our results since he came in, they're pretty crap. I can't see why we'd be gutted to lose him.

Shit players to deal with, yes, but unable to inspire any kind of real improvement with results, that's disappointing.

I'm pretty sure our points per game stat has increased, so there has been an improvement.  Plus that is without any of his own players and a squad which is broken spirit.  He could still be shit, but I don't think it is fair to say that there has not been an improvement.

[sickbeggar]

Players stay. managers go. no club in our position is going to shift players on long well paid contracts to clubs who won't pay them the same or similar.  People should take off the claret and blue glasses for a moment and think if you were a player on 30k a week, would you go to a club offering 15K? Not a chance. We will obviously listen to offers for those that have maybe shown promise (Ayew etc..) but the rest....well the club aren't going to pay up their contracts, so its upto the manager to get something out of them, whether thats Garde or some other poor sap.