Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[Chris Jameson]

There will be all the clamour from the usual suspects to go for a British manager and we end up with glow in the dark Phil Brown.

I'm convinced Nigel Pearson will be the manager by the start of next season and if it's not him it will be Billy Davies.

[SamTheMouse]

Garde's method sounds like Wenger's. Fairly standoffish, doesn't shout and scream a lot, lets the players get on with it.

Have you seen Wenger on the touchline? he's probably one of the most animated managers in the league. Usually moaning to the 4th official or whining to the other manager

Yeah that's true, but I meant more in the dressing room. I seem to remember Lee Dixon saying how Wenger wouldn't really bollock the players after a poor performance.

[Chris Jameson]

When Wenger isn't whinging and moaning to the fourth official he's trying to do his coat up, can they not make him one with velcro instead of of a zip?

[SamTheMouse]

Dixon's thoughts on Wenger:
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/mar/21/arsene-wenger-1000-games-lee-dixon-arsenal

"I like Arsène a lot. He's got a really cool sense of humour, he can be really funny, he laughs at himself. He can be difficult at times – he is not very good at confrontation which you would expect him to be. He finds it very difficult to front you up and tell you why he's dropped you because he cares about you, so it is very difficult for him to look you in the eye."

I get the impression Garde is similar in that respect.

[Chris Stares]

I think that we have, more by luck than judgement, stumbled across a decent man with Garde and I would like to see him given the opportunity to build a team of his own.

This is how I feel.  I hope he stays, but if he does go, I think he will be a very good manager (elsewhere) when given the chance to operate within a properly-run football club.

[ASHTONVILLA]

Problem is it will be the 'general shitness' picking the next bloke if he goes. There will be all the clamour from the usual suspects to go for a British manager and we end up with glow in the dark Phil Brown.

Well he got sacked by Fleetwood this season, so at least no compensation needed - should appeal to the idiots on the board.

[Whiney MacWhineface]

Problem is it will be the 'general shitness' picking the next bloke if he goes. There will be all the clamour from the usual suspects to go for a British manager and we end up with glow in the dark Phil Brown.

Well he got sacked by Fleetwood this season, so at least no compensation needed - should appeal to the idiots on the board.

He's manager of Southend, so beyond our means.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

There will be all the clamour from the usual suspects to go for a British manager and we end up with glow in the dark Phil Brown.

I'm convinced Nigel Pearson will be the manager by the start of next season and if it's not him it will be Billy Davies.

A mate who has been to VP once in the last 10 years sent me a text after the 'The Mighty Reds YNWA' game saying that we need a good, proper British manager and proper British players as all these young foreigners have let the club down.


I nearly cried. 

[joe_c]

There will be all the clamour from the usual suspects to go for a British manager and we end up with glow in the dark Phil Brown.

I'm convinced Nigel Pearson will be the manager by the start of next season and if it's not him it will be Billy Davies.

A mate who has been to VP once in the last 10 years sent me a text after the 'The Mighty Reds YNWA' game saying that we need a good, proper British manager and proper British players as all these young foreigners have let the club down.


I nearly cried. 

I was listening to 5 Live on Wednesday night while doing the dinner and they were talking about Villa's current plight and it was basically five minutes of quack quack manager with Championship experience quack quack foreign players quack quack and I was reduced to swearing at the radio.

[VillaAlways]

Walked out of his press conference today apparently (Remi, not me).

How else do you leave a press conference.

Doing that pretend walking down the stairs behind a table?

Magic Carpet not available

Here you go
https://www.facebook.com/ITVCentral/videos/10153933368794035/

[Matt C]

He shouldn't have to answer questions about the owner and the board but as they're akin to the Invisible Man (or Men in this case) those questions are always going to come his way. It must be infuriating.

[dave.woodhall]

Walked out of his press conference today apparently (Remi, not me).

How else do you leave a press conference.

Doing that pretend walking down the stairs behind a table?

Magic Carpet not available

Here you go
https://www.facebook.com/ITVCentral/videos/10153933368794035/

Tommy Jordan strikes again.

[Holte132]

A mate who has been to VP once in the last 10 years sent me a text after the 'The Mighty Reds YNWA' game saying that we need a good, proper British manager and proper British players as all these young foreigners have let the club down.


I nearly cried. 
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A 'The Mighty Reds YNWA' supporter said exactly the same to me on Tuesday. Didn't have an answer when I reeled off the names of our recent British managers.

[Toronto Villa]

The whole British manager thing is so utterly bollocks. Especially when they don't stop to think who has managed Man City, Chelsea, Spurs, Arsenal and Liverpool over the past few years. It's so fucking lazy. Ferguson aside what British manager has been a success? I'd argue the vast majority have been a failure. Moyes and Rodgers have been the most consistent and neither has achieved all that much at the top level. Certainly not in terms of winning things.

[dave.woodhall]

The whole British manager thing is so utterly bollocks. Especially when they don't stop to think who has managed Man City, Chelsea, Spurs, Arsenal and Liverpool over the past few years. It's so fucking lazy. Ferguson aside what British manager has been a success? I'd argue the vast majority have been a failure. Moyes and Rodgers have been the most consistent and neither has achieved all that much at the top level. Certainly not in terms of winning things.

Quck question - how many English managers have won a trophy since Brian Little twenty years ago?