Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[MattW]

If he does go then I wouldn't replace him till the summer. Get your candidate lined up,  get him to sign a contract starting 1st June if you like, but don't taint them with this season and it's inevitable conclusion.

Reading the John Percy piece, that seems like what they will do, and I agree - rightly so.

[TelfordVilla]

Whoever is manager next season is not going to determine whether or not we get promoted. The players will decide that. So the crucial question is not who will our manager be but who will our players be. No manager on earth would get this current bunch of useless players back to the Prem. So unless Lerner/the board have decided to fund replacements and somehow get shot of most of this squad (unlikely) we are going to endure many years in the wilderness. If they are going to sanction wholesale replacements then we should keep the manager and let him rebuild, he has the pedigree for that job. Not sure he signed up for this job though and clearly he feels betrayed by Fox etc

[Monty]

Whoever is manager next season is not going to determine whether or not we get promoted. The players will decide that.

Tends to be a mixture of the two though, doesn't it?

[SoccerHQ]

If he does go then I wouldn't replace him till the summer. Get your candidate lined up,  get him to sign a contract starting 1st June if you like, but don't taint them with this season and it's inevitable conclusion.

I don't see a problem with getting in a new one now, we're most likely going to be relegated in two games time at the end of the Bournemouth game so a new manager will have minimal association with that and hopefully then he can then have licence to deliver a few home truths to this wretched squad.

[sickbeggar]

Whoever is manager next season is not going to determine whether or not we get promoted. The players will decide that. So the crucial question is not who will our manager be but who will our players be. No manager on earth would get this current bunch of useless players back to the Prem. So unless Lerner/the board have decided to fund replacements and somehow get shot of most of this squad (unlikely) we are going to endure many years in the wilderness. If they are going to sanction wholesale replacements then we should keep the manager and let him rebuild, he has the pedigree for that job. Not sure he signed up for this job though and clearly he feels betrayed by Fox etc

I'm not sure that's true. We went down last time with awful players, as bad as this lot IMO - there was lots of rumours of cliques in the dressing room for example, but given the right manager, the right players added, youth given a chance, and the right attitude the core of this squad can get us promoted, like the core of the last villa side relegated did

[Risso]

If he does go then I wouldn't replace him till the summer. Get your candidate lined up,  get him to sign a contract starting 1st June if you like, but don't taint them with this season and it's inevitable conclusion.

I don't see a problem with getting in a new one now, we're most likely going to be relegated in two games time at the end of the Bournemouth game so a new manager will have minimal association with that and hopefully then he can then have licence to deliver a few home truths to this wretched squad.

I agree, and at least it would mean that we wouldn't have to endure that wretched ****** KTwat being caretaker.  Use it as an early pre-season, get a bit of confidence back.

[dl9]

Nice and simple.

Get rid of nice guy Remi and put him out of his misery. He is not a football manager. An usher or a pallbearer perhaps but not at our expense please.

Take the unprecedented step of giving the first teamers two options:

1. Leave now with their reputations at one above the lowest level they could be (give it 3 weeks and it'll be at the lowest by then)

2. Challenge them with the offer of this incentive:

For the remaining 7 games, they will each get paid double for every win, nothing however for a draw or a loss.

Then when they've won all 7 - don't pay them and tell them all to f*ck off!

OR

Put the kids in the first team (didn't they recently beat the seniors 3-0 of late anyway at BH)? and let Cowans and Little oversee first team matters.

21 losses in a record 'worst ever' season - it cannot get any worse, this won't be a gamble  - we are already down - let's experiment

[VillaAlways]

Reports suggest he will be gone in 48 hours

http://metro.co.uk/2016/03/20/aston-villa-set-to-sack-remi-garde-5763191/?ITO=facebook

[pbavfckuwait]

I think whoever comes in if Garde as I suspect will be gone very shortly, apart from money made on sales, how much do we think the club will be able to put up, Holis states that we will be in a fine financial position, but how does this tie in with the 27 million loss just reported, when we were all getting told that these accounts just out would show a small profit.

Who ever comes in has to be able to find players that will get maximum value for the spend we will make, something that we have not been able to do for a very long time.

Something does not add up and it is not just my maths.

[Clampy]

If he does go, I reckon they'll give it Sir Brian until the end of the season.

[Axl Rose]

If he does go then I wouldn't replace him till the summer. Get your candidate lined up,  get him to sign a contract starting 1st June if you like, but don't taint them with this season and it's inevitable conclusion.

I don't see a problem with getting in a new one now, we're most likely going to be relegated in two games time at the end of the Bournemouth game so a new manager will have minimal association with that and hopefully then he can then have licence to deliver a few home truths to this wretched squad.

I agree, and at least it would mean that we wouldn't have to endure that wretched c*** KTwat being caretaker.  Use it as an early pre-season, get a bit of confidence back.

I agree with all points made, Risso. I laughed at your Kevin McDonald description. Very true. I can't stand the bumbling wanker. Hopefully he will be culled,too.

[dl9]

Reports suggest he will be gone in 48 hours

http://metro.co.uk/2016/03/20/aston-villa-set-to-sack-remi-garde-5763191/?ITO=facebook

Good. Nice guy but shite. In fairness I cannot think of anyone other than Paul Daniels or David Copperfield who could have done much with that herd of cattle, that said he clearly doesn't have any fear factor and they probably have him cleaning their cars on their days off.

[ez]

I wonder if season ticket prices are already in place and the club is waiting for the best time to announce them. They may have been waiting a while.

[Villa Lew]

Very surprised to find 55% want Remi as manager next season. Would like someone to tell me what he has done this season to make you think he is the man to take us back up next season.

If he does go this week, I would put Brian Little in charge until the end of the season.

[exigo]

If Hollis does carry on with his ruthlessness, maybe he can go through contracts with a fine-tooth comb and find a way to fire the following:

A captain who visibly didn't put any effort in cos diddums didn't like playing right back.
A goalkeeper who can't punch, catch, throw or kick.
A club captain who's been booked more times than he's scored, and constantly posts stuff online to fans about haters hating.
A teenage first teamer pictured passed out on holiday, pissed on the evening of a 4-0 drubbing.
A bloke who takes most of our set pieces, yet hasn't beaten the first man since the days of black and white.
A bloke paid to put the ball in the net whose movement Opta have had to start measuring in microns.
Any of a dozen players who can't take a throw in and receive the ball back, retaining possession.

In short, fuck modern football, fuck players' agents, fuck the PFA, fuck this hopeless first team who get off scot free.