Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[sickbeggar]

Should be a poll up by now. Yes he's inherited a turd but he's done the worse polishing job in history

[SteveN]

Garde is last in my list of who/what is responsible for the shite we are now in.  Unfortunately for him he will be gone before the main culprits including players who do not seem to care.

I'm still struggling to come to terms with how Lerner has destroyed this great football club.  But for those of us of a certain age who can remember relegation in the early 60s and then again under Docherty we know we will be back.  I just hope that will be in my lifetime.

[saunders_heroes]

You can't blame Garde for the mess he inherited or that he has perpetuated, he has not been backed to enable him to make changes.
Frankly I don't care who manages us next season, but I do not want the overpaid mercenaries at our club, go with youth down to Div2 for all I care, I just want the players to try.

I don't blame him nor has anyone else from what I've read. He's offered nothing though.

[Jimbo]

Seems to me that Garde has given up. I think he will be gone when we a finally relegated. God knows why he took the job?

Clearly, he was lied to, then the capricious, whimsical Randy Lerner decided to stab him in the back. He's been right royally shafted, as we've all been by this feckless charlatan.

[django]

He's got nothing to work with.

The squad clearly consists largely of mercenary c***s who don't give too much of a shit.

I'm not sure he gives a stuff either.  Telling players they're all shit on a weekly basis isn't going to make them try harder.  They're shit, he's shit.  A perfect storm of shitness.

He could do a Lambert and keep saying "we were excellent". No thanks.

The thing is Lamberts annoying 'we were excellent' 'we go again' bullshit was an attempt to prop up the players fragile confidence and turn around our form. When Sherwood and Garde have called out the players for not being good enough it's about recognising that changing our form is almost impossible and trying to preserve their reputations and careers.

[andyh]

EVERYBODY appreciates that he inherited a complete sack of shit when he took over.
But, does that really justify the results, batterings and humiliations week after week after week?

Surely a managers job is to get the best out the resources available to him.

As bad as they are I do not believe the results and performances from this team should be as absolutely fucking atrocious as they are.

[ez]

When the squad only has rubbish players in it we're going to be rubbish.

I agree, but he's offered nothing though, not even the 'new manager lift' that even some of the shittest out there can manage for a few weeks. I think there's a bit of the emperor's new clothes about him. I keep hearing stuff about him being a fine manager and then I look at the results.
He's been appalling. Even Sherwood managed to lift us for a few weeks and kept us up.
Wrong choice, wrong manager.

That was before the last 2 disastrous transfer windows. Sherwood got 1 league win with the current players.

Sherwood kept us up last season which I'll always be grateful for. It was always going to end in tears with Lerner in charge but at least he could point to those first few weeks of his reign. What can Garde point to? He's done absolutely nothing.

I'm grateful for it too. But the club signed 13 rubbish players in the summer and both Sherwood and Garde have got next to nothing out of them.

[brontebilly]

He gave up after the transfer window, needs to be fired now. Fuck knows who we will get in to replace him in our current state

[andyh]

He gave up after the transfer window, needs to be fired now. Fuck knows who we will get in to replace him in our current state

Someone who knows how to operate in the championship, and who can start planning to get us back up as champions.

[preston28]

He gave up after the transfer window, needs to be fired now. Fuck knows who we will get in to replace him in our current state

Trouble is the board as usual won't see what we can. They now have a manager who isn't managing the team.
I was hopeful the Garde would be a good manager for he Villa. His attitude and facial expressions are like the man who has accepted his wife is really leaving him and the marriage is over. He's just going through the motions.

[lovejoy]

He gave up after the transfer window, needs to be fired now. Fuck knows who we will get in to replace him in our current state

Someone who knows how to operate in the championship, and who can start planning to get us back up as champions.

Not Garde?

[andyh]

He gave up after the transfer window, needs to be fired now. Fuck knows who we will get in to replace him in our current state

Someone who knows how to operate in the championship, and who can start planning to get us back up as champions.

Not Garde?

If our board has an ounce of sense, credibility or desire to bring the club back from the depths, they should break the bank for Eddie Howe.

I see a few flaws in that though.

[amfy]

we've tried every size and shape of manager and regardless of whether we get any 'bounce' or not, we just continue to look progressively more shit. Worse than that we actually continue to look worse than the sum of our parts, but it's happened for so long, with so many different faces at the helm, I can't see the point of changing the manager now.

Some other shit needs to change first, because winning 3 games because someone new comes in and shouts at them, then returning to being shit again isn't actually going to help anyone.

[tomd2103]

He gave up after the transfer window, needs to be fired now. Fuck knows who we will get in to replace him in our current state

Trouble is the board as usual won't see what we can. They now have a manager who isn't managing the team.
I was hopeful the Garde would be a good manager for he Villa. His attitude and facial expressions are like the man who has accepted his wife is really leaving him and the marriage is over. He's just going through the motions.

Agree.  Hoped he would be the right man for us, but his position is becoming more untenable by the game.  He obviously feels let down, but looks like a beaten man and I just can't see a way back for him now.  Better he went now and either appoint someone new or finish the season with a caretaker manager.

[pauliewalnuts]

What difference does it really make to replace him with a caretaker manager now?

It isn't going to get any better than this with the current squad, things have just got way too bad for that.