Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[adrenachrome]

I can't see how he can rebuild. We will be stuck with the majority of these players as nobody will buy them and the accountants won't write them off. Things could get a lot worse before they potentially get better.

Imagine sacking most of a team. I can't think of any situation where that's happened. The easiest thing from an owner point of view is get rid of the manager and let somebody else have a crack at the mess.

Wait till the results of the far reaching investigation into "the disastrous campaign" come out. There will be hell to pay.

Or maybe not. For some reason I am minded of the Chilcot Inquiry on the Iraq war.

[curiousorange]

Just an example. Moyes is as likely to come to Villa as I am to bag a weekend in Rhyl with Mila Kunis.

[Steve67]

The troubling aspect of replacing Garde with say, Moyes, is to ask what he could do with these players? In his times, Garde must have tried everything: bollockings, befriending, cajoling, injecting confidence...at a push, it's worked somewhat with Veretout and Ayew. But all of a sudden, a Scotsman will draw blood from a stone where a Frenchman couldn't? That squad is toxic, and it'll be a few years and a few managers before it's properly cleansed.

I hate to say it but I bet Tiny Penis would get something out of them. Not that I want him as our next Manager mind. Perhaps Remi is just not a strong enough character.

[FanNOTCustomer]

I couldn't have anything to do with a team managed by Pearson.  He'd probably improve results, but that would be too high a price to pay to have our club associated with him in any way.

This. He was a complete PR disaster at a little family club like Leicester, imagine what he'd be like with the pressure of this job and our fans. Disaster written all over it.

[Des Little]

There's absolutely no doubt that the players aren't playing for him as Kippax said earlier. Look at the first goal tonight...Sunday morning defending (or lack of) - making a total mockery of any pre match planning or instruction. They're taking the Royal piss out of him, and us too.

The problem is, as I've said before- who on earth would come here?

[pauliewalnuts]

The troubling aspect of replacing Garde with say, Moyes, is to ask what he could do with these players? In his times, Garde must have tried everything: bollockings, befriending, cajoling, injecting confidence...at a push, it's worked somewhat with Veretout and Ayew. But all of a sudden, a Scotsman will draw blood from a stone where a Frenchman couldn't? That squad is toxic, and it'll be a few years and a few managers before it's properly cleansed.

I hate to say it but I bet Tiny Penis would get something out of them. Not that I want him as our next Manager mind. Perhaps Remi is just not a strong enough character.

Perhaps he's not that strong, but really, these players are ******.

I actively dislike most of them. Not just as players, but as people.

****** like Lescott and his 120k car tweet, Gabby and his "you doubted me but I've just scored for the first time in about 3 years" showboating, Bacuna and his 'couldn't give a fuck' routine, Westwood and his standing there, pointing and trying to look enigmatic as runners stream past him unimpeded, Guzan's stupid fucking gormless "chucked one in" face, Richards thinking he's charlie big bollocks ...

I would say I actively detest 3/4 of our players.

[saunders_heroes]

There's absolutely no doubt that the players aren't playing for him as Kippax said earlier. Look at the first goal tonight...Sunday morning defending (or lack of) - making a total mockery of any ore match planning or instruction. They're taking the Royal piss out of him, and us too.

The problem is, as I've said before- who on earth would come here?

I think he made a big mistake the other week when he came out and said he wasn't getting what he wanted from the players during training. It was amateurish, and something Sherwood would have been slaughtered for if he had been so stupid enough to come out with it. He went down in my estimation when I read that.

[themossman]

The troubling aspect of replacing Garde with say, Moyes, is to ask what he could do with these players? In his times, Garde must have tried everything: bollockings, befriending, cajoling, injecting confidence...at a push, it's worked somewhat with Veretout and Ayew. But all of a sudden, a Scotsman will draw blood from a stone where a Frenchman couldn't? That squad is toxic, and it'll be a few years and a few managers before it's properly cleansed.

I hate to say it but I bet Tiny Penis would get something out of them. Not that I want him as our next Manager mind. Perhaps Remi is just not a strong enough character.

TS was a 'strong character'.

[curiousorange]

It goes without saying that the likes of Richards and Lescott are doing themselves no favours either if they stay or if they have designs on leaving. A new broom's going to treat them as you would a pile of runny cat shite, and unless China has designs on diluting their minted league with a couple of useless used-to-be glamour names, they won't be leaving a sinking ship anytime soon.

[Ad@m]

Like it or not, what this club needs is someone who knows how to run a fucking football club. 

Given the board is full of marketing managers, bankers and accountants that role is going to have to be filled by the manager.  So whilst it might not be pretty the best thing for the long-term of the club is to get an old school gaffer in (and yes, I do mean a Tony Pulis, Sam Allardyce, etc) who will come in and sort all this shit out and set us up for a Garde-style appointment when we have some upward momentum.

[Walmley_Villa]

I have a feeling Fox might get the chop. Randy does look for a fall guy for his failings and the manager cannot be blamed as he wasn't backed.
Ultimately Fox has failed by getting the club relegated and drastically reducing the value of the 'business'. In the corporate world which the yanks live in he will be gone.

[PeterWithesShin]

I doubt Fox will be here next season.

[curiousorange]

Lerner's backroom appointments have all failed. Fox will get his pay off and become CEO somewhere else. Plus ca change.

[Steve67]

Mossman, TS as in Sherwood? If so, he was a chancer, also out of his depth and arguably found out by the players for his lack of nous.  Strong in opinion but not strong in knowledge?

Paulie, I hate those players too. Flash in the pan, high earning wasters. A stain on our club. A lack of due diligence in the recruitment stage methinks.

[Des Little]

I doubt Fox will be here next season.

I don't want that creep here tomorrow