Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[Dave]

Cynical, I know, but he was only employed be use he was cheap, wasn't he?

Why, how much is he being paid?

[Walmley_Villa]

I like the idea of Remi Garde more than I like Remi Garde.

Yes. I have come to the same conclusion. Been hung out to dry and think the big factor is not getting his trusted assistants in. He needs help and hasn't had it or the support. Can he bring us back? At,the moment I think we could drop like a stone as Wigan have. A crying shame and disgrace but no surprise, years of mismanagement have come to roost.

[Hillbilly]

Hopefully he's just given up on this bunch now, is not wasting breath on them and is working on their replacements.

Let's look at some other managers. Football hipster Klopp who's taken a very expensive midtable Liverpool side to exactly where they were before he took over. Management legend Van Gaal has taken Man U from playing catch up to the top 4 to playing catch up to the top 4. Second Choice Steve has taken Newcastle from flirting with relegation to flirting with relegation. Avoiding relegation expert Fat Sam has not worked his magic at Sunderland. And yet somehow we expect Garde to come in and take a shower of shite that had lost 7 or 8 on the bounce, had been circling the plughole for 5 years and pull them kicking and screaming up the table? I can't blame him. But there'll be no excuses next season if he stays.

[pauliewalnuts]

Cynical, I know, but he was only employed be use he was cheap, wasn't he?

Why, how much is he being paid?

The "on the cheap" argument in this case is so spurious and fucking boring.

Like the reason we went for Garde was because he was cheaper than some amazingly proven manager who was just waiting to step in and taking over a team which, after one quarter of the season, already stank of death.

Yeah, the reason we've got so many shit players is largely because they were cheap - although far from all of them - but I reckon the lower leagues are full of lots of other managers who would have taken less than Garde does.

[saunders_heroes]

Cynical, I know, but he was only employed be use he was cheap, wasn't he?

Why, how much is he being paid?

I was talking more about him being more willing to work with our pitiful budget more than what he's earning.

[FanNOTCustomer]

I bet he's crap in bed.

[Steve67]

I bet he's crap in bed.

No idea why, but this made me laugh.

[SamTheMouse]

I still like him, but my suspicion - that he wasn't the sort of manager we needed to lead a squad of half-arsed, lazy twats in a desperate scrap for survival - is being confirmed.

Not that it will have made much difference. Maybe someone with hints of psychopathy like Pearson could have scared them into performing, but I doubt it. In addition to having a shit attitude...they are just shit.

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

Seems to me we keep him and let him get rid of all the shit (pretty much everyone) and bring in whoever he wants.

Or, we're keeping these players, so therefore we need a manager who they will play for and won't use the players as an excuse every game, when, after not winning many matches, you really need to be looking at yourself as well.

[Risso]

Seems to me we keep him and let him get rid of all the shit (pretty much everyone) and bring in whoever he wants.

Or, we're keeping these players, so therefore we need a manager who they will play for and won't use the players as an excuse every game, when, after not winning many matches, you really need to be looking at yourself as well.

I think he'll go.  I don't think Lerner will stand for him calling the board out over the lack of transfers, but Lerner won't sack a second manager in the season, when we're dead and buried anyway.

[aj2k77]

Poor again.

[SoccerHQ]

Cynical, I know, but he was only employed be use he was cheap, wasn't he?

Why, how much is he being paid?

I was talking more about him being more willing to work with our pitiful budget more than what he's earning.

Given his demanour since the end of January you have to conclude he was promised decent funds when he signed and at some point in January that was swiftly withdrawn from him.

Think he'll resign a week or so after the Arsenal game, put it this way why on earth would he stay? He'll be managing in a league he knows very little about and we're a basket case of a club.

[LeeB]

He's the right manager for the next post, the rebuilding, but he'll be tainted and undermined what he's overseen, and he'll have to go because that's the way it is.

We will then employ the wrong type of manager for the role, because we employ some ridiculous criteria like "must wear Joop aftershave".

[curiousorange]

Pearson to me is everything we got from Sherwood. He comes in, acts the big I am and has loads of brainless football hacks thinking he's got some magical dressing room elixir, when in actual fact all he does is recognise which are his best players and plays them. It's when form dips these kind of chancers get found out.

If there's any money being doled out for a rebuilding job, I'd line up Moyes in a heartbeat and give it to him. Nothing against Garde, but most of the players we saw tonight will still be forming part of our team next season and quite frankly, they hate each other.

[pauliewalnuts]

He's the right manager for the next post, the rebuilding, but he'll be tainted and undermined what he's overseen, and he'll have to go because that's the way it is.

We will then employ the wrong type of manager for the role, because we employ some ridiculous criteria like "must wear Joop aftershave".

And, sadly, that is EXACTLY what will happen.