Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[ZhongYi]

what seems to have been a tad glossed over is that a large factor in his appointment according to the media, was to get the French guys more settled in and playing. What seems to have happened in actual fact is Jozef Venglos mark 2.

[passport1]

Bottom line is that we have a shit owner with a shit board, shit players and a shit manager. Every aspect of the club is second rate except the support.

 Unfortunately that is the crux of it.That lethal combination is why we are in free fall.

[Dave]

If the actual inferiority of the squad were to be tested scientifically you would need a "control" with which to measure it.

I suggest that control is Alan Hutton.  When he first came to us, our last Premiership signing I believe, he was universally regarded as a poor player.

Wouldn't Lescott and Richards be our last signings from within the Premier League*?

*unless you mean our last signing who had ever played in the Premiership, in which case he might well be from his time at Rangers.

[kippaxvilla2]

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/aston-villa-boss-remi-garde-11006585?

[AVH87]

I did want Garde to stay but I think after January the writing was on the wall, and the way he's spoken and acted since shows he's a man who expects a parting of ways in the summer. I'm dreading that grade A bellend Nigel Pearson walking through the door next.

[andyh]

Gone today I reckon

[in exile]

Gone today I reckon

What makes you think it will be today?

[django]

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/aston-villa-boss-remi-garde-11006585?

Poor Remi. It must have been quite a shock to realise he hadn't taken over at Real Madrid like he seemed to have thought.

[sickbeggar]

Load of faff really. We must have about 1000 games of premiership experience in the squad. You don't survive that long  in the top league if all of your players are total crap quality wise.

Either they're

a) Past it - not Garde's fault
b)Won't play for him - Not Garde's fault but his problem
c)Don't respond to him or understand his tactics - Garde's fault
d)he's not very good

My guess is a liitle bit of all of them

[pbavfckuwait]

The level of performance returning to unacceptable level, I believe was linked with no new players, but something you mention before Old Man VF, Hutton alongside Richards, this is only happening after a change in the formation, with us going 3 at the back (5 really) with two wing backs and it has not been a huge success, that has been Gardes decisions no one else's.

As for the inclusion again the manager’s decision, he may not have had many options, but if I was him and the only option was Gabby, let alone based on his performance level, but the aggravation it is believed he is causing, I am sorry but a 16, 17 year old or whatever would have been my preferred choice.

You should not moan about performance levels whether that be on the pitch or in training and then go and pick them every week, you may not be able to lance all of the boils, but if you lance the biggest one you may just get your message out there.

I do not believe Garde has acted forcefully enough and by that has allowed the cretins that are trying to undermine him even more power

[conman]

what seems to have been a tad glossed over is that a large factor in his appointment according to the media, was to get the French guys more settled in and playing. What seems to have happened in actual fact is Jozef Venglos mark 2.

even our French players have got worse under garde

[PaulWinch again]

what seems to have been a tad glossed over is that a large factor in his appointment according to the media, was to get the French guys more settled in and playing. What seems to have happened in actual fact is Jozef Venglos mark 2.

even our French players have got worse under garde

I'm not sure that's true at all.

[kippaxvilla2]

I really respect Remi for these comments.

Villa signed 11 new players last summer, while a number of others are on long-term deals.

And Garde said: “I think they are aware when you have a contract, you are linked to the club.

“You cannot think you are well paid when you are under contract, but when it is a nice time for you you forget the contract.

“Everybody has a contract. Everybody will have to respect that.

“This is a not a discussion I have with my players but they are not coming from another planet. They are aware of football rules.”

Asked about whether players had sufficient motivation for the battle ahead, he replied: “Hopefully, yes. I’m not in every brain of the players that I manage. I don’t know exactly what is their position.


Read more at http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/aston-villa-fc/2016/03/11/aston-villas-remi-garde-no-space-for-weak-players/?#UA0v9A16iEyueQRJ.99

[PaulWinch again]

I really hope he stays.

[Toronto Villa]

It's stuff like that which makes me want him to stay and succeed. It's why I don't think he'll quit, why the likes of Fox will be canned, and why Hollis has made the recent appointments. I also don't think Randy wants to fire another manager so unless Garde walks away then he'll be manager next season. They are putting smart people at the club to deal with the manager who is also an intelligent man. He said today he has offered his thoughts on the path forward. Let's hope some of these recent moves are being made based on those conversations and to convince him that they are going to support him in the rebuilding of Aston Villa.