Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[Stirchley Villain]

That's a very bold declaration saying Garde could get us back considering he's shown absolutely zero managerial competence in the short time he's been with us. What's more I can guarantee that the circumstances of the club won't be any different until RL sells up.

[saunders_heroes]

That's a very bold declaration saying Garde could get us back considering he's shown absolutely zero managerial competence in the short time he's been with us. What's more I can guarantee that the circumstances of the club won't be any different until RL sells up.

Agree with this. Garde has offered nothing in the PL so I don't see why anyone should have so much faith in his ability to get us out of the Championship.
I think you're right about the club under Lerner as well. Does anyone really think he'll be like a changed man next season and become ambitious again? Not a chance, it'll be more of the same.
Nothing will change till he sells up.

[mike]

I am undecided whether Garde should walk away with dignity and a Gallic shrug having been given a shit stick or be sacked for being worse than his predecessor.

[Chris Jameson]

I'll say it for the 4th or 5th time. Howe would do it given the backing and the guarantees. We're a big club albeit it in pieces, and a manager with ambition at a smaller club a division above us would look at us seriously.

You can say it as many times as you like he won't be coming to Villa.

[Dante Lavelli]

That's a very bold declaration saying Garde could get us back considering he's shown absolutely zero managerial competence in the short time he's been with us. What's more I can guarantee that the circumstances of the club won't be any different until RL sells up.

Agree with this. Garde has offered nothing in the PL so I don't see why anyone should have so much faith in his ability to get us out of the Championship.
I think you're right about the club under Lerner as well. Does anyone really think he'll be like a changed man next season and become ambitious again? Not a chance, it'll be more of the same.
Nothing will change till he sells up.

The only way Garde can work next season - and further forward - is if he is given the authority to strip the club back and remove it's rotten core.  With out that it will just be a continuation of what exists now.  He has given up on a fair few of the players and they have given up on him.

[Matt C]

Media starting to turn the screw (via The Mirror) http://bit.ly/24IHKfK

[PaulWinch again]

I do find it odd that this cliche that a manager needs to 'know the Championship' to get out of it still gets thrown about. It's exactly the same as the Premier League only with worse teams and it's exactly the same as League 1 but with better teams. The Championship does not exist in some parallel universe where they play a different game. It's an old myth that you have to be ultra physical to get out of it. Nowadays the teams who play better football tend to get out.

This post gave me a reality check and really cheered me up.

Thank you for taking the time to post it.

Your welcome.

[Stirchley Villain]

Media starting to turn the screw (via The Mirror) http://bit.ly/24IHKfK

Will save us a few quid in compo I suppose.

[OzVilla]

I actually feel a bit for Garde and he certainly owes us nothing.  The Board hung him out to dry. I bet he can't wait to get away but doesn't want to make it easy on them the way he's been treated.

Promised funds but then none materialsed. Dreadful squad with poor attitudes and couldn't change it.

I'm now sure MON had a minimum transfer annual spend fixed in his contract, hence he walked and won his employment tribunal, maybe Garde wishes he'd done the same for the January window.  Take them for every penny you can Remi.

[frank black]

He's really not very good. Certainly expect him to be fired, rather than him walk. It's the Villa way.

[Irish villain]

I am undecided whether Garde should walk away with dignity and a Gallic shrug having been given a shit stick or be sacked for being worse than his predecessor.

We were making progress in January. Harder to beat, showing more spirit, grinding our way to a similar points total as we were in mid-February last season. The fact that he wasn't backed in the window was the final nail in our coffin and men of less integrity than him would have waked away on 1 February.

[aj2k77]

Only the blind would fail to see he doesn't have the backing of the squad. Therefor if he were to stay we'd need to cull about 10 players, can anyone see us selling and buying 10 players successfully? I bloody can't. It isn't going to happen in my opinion. Sacking Remi is the easy option, rather than the root cause the useless, gobshite, couldn't give a toss players on easy street with their cliques.

[ozzjim]

He has so clearly given up the fight which alarms me. A month ago I was fully behind him rebuilding as long as he got to the point a game sort of mark. He is nowhere near that now and the performances are as shambolic as the christmas of dread under Lambert where we lost about 33-0 in 5 games.

I think he has been completely de-motivated by those above him, and is fed up of those he is trying to manage. When Richards, Lescott, Gabby and NZogbia are your 4 highest paid players, "earning" 60k a week plus each, what fucking chance do you stand.

But, and it is a big one, he has called them out, moaned about them, told the world they are shitbags essentially, but keeps picking them. Lyden could have come in today to add extra legs in midfield. Okore and Clark can play together in the back 4. Gestede and Ayew could have started up front.

I understand his hands are tied with the squad, but Gardner is a better midfielder than Bacuna and Westwood and was allowed to go.

Whoever comes in next season has to find 7-8 players, cheaply, who have got the stomach for a fucking fight, and be allowed to get shut of at least 8-9 of our current lot. Horrible task for anyone.

[Steve67]

Pot one: Moyes, Rodgers, Hughes
Pot two: Dyche, Bruce, Warburton
Shit on the pot: Pearson, Holloway, Penis

Who's it gonna be?

[django]

I'd have Dyche from that list but doubt we'd get him.