Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[ozzjim]

I actually wouldn't mind Steve Bruce and think he would do a pretty decent job but there is no point considering him due to the fact the moronic media and some of our fans would be anti him for his Blue connections straight away. He also has a 3 year shelf life at a club when it starts going south.

Warburton would be my first choice because he has managed in the Championship and done a decent job at Rangers, but I doubt he would come. I fear we will end up with Gary Monk who was way out of his depth once the novelty wore off at Swansea.

[Matt C]

Pot two if we're lucky.

[adrenachrome]

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

Will save us a few quid in compo I suppose.

Moxley.

File under bullshit.

Just scours the internet for snippets. No real contacts.

The Sunday People does not exist in the real world; it is a taste of the virtual hell to come.

[Damo70]

I would keep Garde until the end of the season and then get shot of him as soon as the final whistle goes. I think we all know this wasn't his mess but he hasn't mopped up any of the mess he inherited and we probably would have been better off sticking with Sherwood. So accept our fate and then appoint a new manager as soon as the season finishes. Pearson for me.

[adrenachrome]

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.

That sums it up for me.

Unfortunately, since he was sold down the river, he has been protecting his position for next season to the detriment of our remaining games. 

I can't really blame him for this, since he is dealing with a bunch of  lying ****s, but I think he might have miscalculated the strength of his position.

[croatian]

I've just had a vision of Pearson taking over.

Given his reputed aggression and arrogance and the squads known spineless indifference, his first day at BH could involve a fleet of ambulances, armed riot police and Cameron calling in the SAS. Kay Burley would be on the spot reporting on a succession of bloodied and bandaged players on stretchers, including one face down with an iphone protruding from his rectum. Another in very bright, expensive blood stained pyjamas being rushed to a Harley Street clinic, whilst checking his wallet.

It could provide some much needed entertainment.

Exaggeration perhaps, but he'd bring heavy ordnance to the party.

Bring it on.

Pearson or Dyche.

Please.

[ROBBO]

What's the point if the board back any new manager the way they've backed Garde then they will fail. I still believe that Garde  has been undermined from day one by a coterie of senior players, only that explains the continual lack of effort. The club has to make an example and telling Gabby to stay away for the rest of the season and to start looking for another club may just do the trick. What is there to lose.

[pbavfckuwait]

As has been pointed out many times, we are just going to continue to spiral down if the only answer to all our problems is change the manager, but I see no alternative in this case, we are not going to rid the club overnight of the well paid, could not give a toss footballers we have managed to collect all at the same time, so after seeing that Remi cannot get anything out of them, change will occur.

The problem then, the last time this club had any level of competence was when we put all our eggs in one basket MON style, now rightly or wrongly to a degree it worked, since then we have tried to put together a level of management that will allow for some over seeing of the person nominated by these same people as the FOOTBALL Manager, the highlighted word football, the problem being we have placed in positions persons not capable especially in a football sense of doing this to any level of success.
 
As we stand at the moment we have accountants, marketing monkeys and retired bankers who could write what they know about football on the back of a stamp and still have room for War and Peace.

We then hit the issue that will cause us major problems, when we stop thinking we are Aston Villa so of course a top man will want the job, well since pube head went out the door we have not had great success on that scale and the names that were attached to us if they were of a reasonable quality level would not touch us, Moyes how many times, Rafa etc, football management is a very small but close world within the shores of the UK / Europe and you get the feeling that the word, career ender and toxic gets associated with AVFC on a regular basis, so then we are back to taking a chance on a chancer, see Sherwood or on a suitably unknown man from abroad, to a certain degree see Remi.

Randy and his yes men have really done a fine job of restricting our options going forward, while he is still here we are in for a sustained period of despair and much anger from the only good thing at AVFC the support.

[Dante Lavelli]

Pearson for me.

What is the appeal of Pearson?  Surely the up turn in form between Ranieri's leicester versus Pearson's leicester should be a warning sign that he does not get the most out of his players.

[OzVilla]

Pearson for me.

What is the appeal of Pearson?  Surely the up turn in form between Ranieri's leicester versus Pearson's leicester should be a warning sign that he does not get the most out of his players.

But Pearson can spin the reflected glory of the last 10 games as the start of their revolution and our numpties will happily believe it. Oh and he'll be cheap of course and desperate for a job

They'll love his Sgt Major routine as it'll be mainly the squad we have this year minus players they can get buyers for - so that'll be just a couple of our few decent ones leaving and the deadwood remaining.

[Des Little]

Reading this thread is actually becoming more depressing than watching the team. Which is some achievement.

[preston28]

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

Who's it gonna be?

As said by other posters - Grayson worth a punt? Has worked with worse owners at Leeds, he's ex Villa and doing well with a Preston squad assembled on near to nothing.

[ldavfc4eva]

Pot one wouldn't touch us with a barge pole, pot two I doubt would either as all three will gain promotion with the clubs they currently manage (well it is a three horse race in the championship so one of them may miss out to Middlesboro)

Pot three, erm if I had to then I'd have to say penis I suppose, never said that before or will again!

Grayson isn't a bad shout, how about Karanka if Boro don't get promoted?

[SamTheMouse]

We've been going through managers like the clappers. Some of them were even good before they arrived.

At some point, you have to start wondering whether it might not be the managers who are the problem.

[Allan C]

It dosnt matter who is in charge. No one mentioned will do anything with our load of useless wasters, surely the worst Villa squad EVER. I feel like crying every time I see the team sheet. Unless there's change at the very top, it's more of the same. What's certain is that none of it is RG's fault cos he didn't buy any of them. Nobody could get a tune from this lot I'm afraid