Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[SteveD]

We're past needing to hang onto Garde any longer. It would do both he and the club good not to postpone the inevitable. Let him go back to France. He's no use nor ornament with the current team. I've no confidence he can turn us around at Championship level, so there is no point carrying on. On pointing the finger of blame in the shambles of this season, he takes a small part of it - he's been left down badly in the boardroom but also the attitude shown by too many of the players. But he's been like a rabbit in headlights in recent weeks. He hasn't been able to motivate them or get even the basic effort out of some of them; he might have taken some more positive steps in terms of playing some of the younger players; his approach in games has been too cautious. Now he looks and sounds as weary as the rest of us. Put him and us out of our misery.

[villan from luton]

I think Remi needs to go now, nice hit?bloke but would Ron Saunders accept this shit?

[eamonn]

Paying-off another two years of a manager's contract cos he's delivering shit results...make him stay and be miserable while be earns his salary.

[villan from luton]

Paying-off another two years of a manager's contract cos he's delivering shit results...make him stay and be miserable while be earns his salary.
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hopr yjay is a joke Eamonn ?

[myf]

Oh dear KMAC until the end of the season. Welcome back Gabby and Micah!

[wince]

We are using the same reasons for Garde as we did for Sherwood and Lambert although, statistically Garde is the worst of the bunch. Yes we are without any fight but I do believe that, given our recent sackings, players are sitting back believing the manager will be sacked soon and they will get away scott free. The players work rate is poor and they were not doing what they were being asked to do under training under Sherwood and they are also not doing what is asked of them now under Garde. Garde is not innocent aswe already know he didnt get all his backrrom staff and he wasnt backed in January but I fear he has gone as far as he can with this bunch and I do not believe any manager coming in will get anything out of this team. Sherwood had Cleverley, Benteke, Delph, Vlaar to get us out of the rut. Garde has players who were gambles.

I rate Gestede as a player, but Garde needs to get players on to keep them crosses coming in but I do feel that the players picked are the best we have. There is nobody else and I would give him next season to build his squad, get rid of the dead wood and get us believing again.

I would not want Pearson anywhere near this club. I dont care what he did with Leicester. (Look what Lambert did with Norwich and that didnt end well) nor do I want Tony Pulis etc

I still think that Garde was the right option for us but should have come in last summer. However I feel it is too late for him and I wish him the very best and I do not blame him in our plight. He was as powerless with that bunch of bastards as a man trying to stop the tide from coming in with his hands

[oswald funkletrumpet]

He has to go.

Worst Villa Manager ever.

Ridiculous statement, if Garde had the same squad as last season and had the same results I would agree but the fact is that the three best players from last season were sold and replaced with very average footballers. Sherwood was sacked because he had the same squad and couldn't win games either I don't care who we took on as manager the result would have been the same because we have the worst Villa squad I can ever remember.

I'm waiting for your response too.

You answered your own question - mitigating circumstances, to a pretty extreme degree. That doesn't necessarily mean he's any good either, but it makes any assessment pretty much impossible.

Are you a Garde fan ?

I don't see why it matters. For the record, I'd prefer if he stayed, but I wouldn't give a toss if he left providing we hired someone sensible in his place.

Anyway, the burden of proof's really on you if you're going to make such a severe claim. I think we've agree that he's inherited a squad with no players capable of leading the line, an ineffective midfield, a leaky defence, and two sub-par goalkeepers, and then been given no money to improve on any of it. Even the best managers would have struggled to get something out of them.

13% win rate.

Which Villa Manager has stats worse than that ?

he has a 10% win rate in the league and a -25 gd

[oswald funkletrumpet]

He hasn't even had all the coaching staff he wanted.

Oh Poor guy.

13% win rate.

Don't concern yourself with the other points. Out of interest though with the exact same squad, just so we're comparing like with like, what was Sherwood's win rate in the league this season? Or points per game rate?

sherwood played 10 won 1 gd -11
garde played 20 won 2 gd -25

[olaftab]

So the stats all align to poor set of players. No point in shooting the Coach.

[olaftab]

It's amazing how one more, predicted, defeat has influenced the poll.  F word comes to mind.

[oswald funkletrumpet]

garde was dealt a shit hand in january but he has had no impact on the team whatsover

his stats are worse than sherwood and ultimately its how many games you win that you get measured on.

6 defeats on the bounce would get you the chop at a lot of clubs, never mind the other 14 games before

garde like the team gave up at least a month ago and will welcome the sack as he will get paid off and can go back to lyon

[claret and blue blood]

Far too easy to blame Garde but he is fighting every other team who have had investment of sorts with an injury hit already poor squad and zero investment.
Let Brian Little decide if we need a new manager or not.

[PaulWinch again]

So the stats all align to poor set of players. No point in shooting the Coach.

Yep.

[PaulWinch again]

He hasn't even had all the coaching staff he wanted.

Oh Poor guy.

13% win rate.

Don't concern yourself with the other points. Out of interest though with the exact same squad, just so we're comparing like with like, what was Sherwood's win rate in the league this season? Or points per game rate?

sherwood played 10 won 1 gd -11
garde played 20 won 2 gd -25

So his win ratio is the same then. How about points per game?

[PaulWinch again]

Not fucking KMac he should have been sacked after his behaviour in his previous two games in charge.