Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[mr underhill]

He couldn't do any worse , could he?

[MarkM]

Garde can't manage, can't motivate players, has little tactical ability

Apart from that he's a good manager!

[VillaAlways]

The guy is sitting there just waiting to be sacked. This is inexcusable now

[jwarry]

Is his honeymoon period over yet?

[Chico Hamilton III]

I think the fact that we're arguing whether he's as good as Sherwood or not says it all. It doesn't matter, he's not good enough for us. And he can take Fox and the entire first team with him for all I care. Wankers.

[Risso]

Spineless and clueless.

[Malandro]

Louis van Gaal has gone from respected manager to clown at Utd. I see no reason to abuse or mock Garde - the players are just awful.

History will forget McLeish, Houllier, Lambert and Sherwood. It's a pity.

[CT]

I think the fact that we're arguing whether he's as good as Sherwood or not says it all. It doesn't matter, he's not good enough for us. And he can take Fox and the entire first team with him for all I care. Wankers.

Would have to agree. I like RG and wanted him to succeed and yes, he's been royally fucked by his bosses.

But fucking hell, he's been absolutely terrible and appeared to throw in the towel shortly after the Board did.

[supertom]

It sickens me a bit to see that Newcastle have shown a bit of ambition and balls and gone for the FSW. Granted it may not work and one sniff of a better club and he'll jump ship, but he's got a decent, proven track record, and is tactically astute. They'll probably stay up now. We've taken wildly inconsistent and huge gambles and tried to do things on the cheap and it's biting us on the scrote.

[NorthYvillan]

I think including Houllier in that list is a little unfair

[supertom]

Louis van Gaal has gone from respected manager to clown at Utd. I see no reason to abuse or mock Garde - the players are just awful.

History will forget McLeish, Houllier, Lambert and Sherwood. It's a pity.

I'd love LVG here. At the very least we'd get comedy value.

[mr underhill]

we've got that already

[pauliewalnuts]

These players don't want to play for the manager, no matter who he is. If it is true there are cliques in the dressing room then we are in bigger trouble than we thought.

Given that we are going to have a huge amount of work to do in the summer if we want a cat's chance in hell of coming straight back, id rather we did that with the manager already in place.

I'd rather keep Garde than poke around with the likes of Bruce or Pearson on some spurious "knows the championship" basis.

There isn't a manager out there who can get decent results out of the likes of Richardson, Bacuna, Westwood, Hutton or cissokho.

[ROBBO]

I think some of you need a reality check, I don't care who the manager is or was with this squad we were always going to be relegated. The powers that be took a massive gamble last summer and it has blown up in our face, to bring in so many players that were untried in the premiership or at least a league equivalent to it has been shown to be a disaster and the biggest mistake of all was replacing our leading goal scorer with a donkey has proved fatal. Get of Gardes back his only mistake was in believing the players may have been better than what they turned out to be. As we saw today the effort was there but the players are simply not good enough at this level.

[DB]

Nothing he has done so far has put any belief he has improved on what went before him. Yes, it isn't his squad (which is shit), but not even fight or a glimpse that we have improved. I would look elsewhere come what May.