Villa are expected to announce Remi Garde as their new manager ahead of the Spurs game. Garde did well at Lyon, taking them to some very impressive finishes in the Ligue 1 and winning the French cup. He's got a tough job there this season, dragging them off the bottom. Morale is low at Villa but the players will be rejuvenated knowing he's coming in and will want to impress against Spurs tonight. How do people think he will fair at Villa ? http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34695249
I think he's a massive gamble, as he doesn't know the league from a managerial perspective and they need to turn it round very quickly if they're to avoid the drop. In their current situation you'd have thought that they'd have gone for a proven PL battler. I thought Moyes was a shoo in for that job personally.
Yep Moyes would have been a good shout. But I think Garde is the better manager in terms of technical and coaching terms. Although he is a gamble having never managed in England before.
As usual, the O.P's post is just another thinly disguised episode in his obsession with Spurs. The problems with Villa lie higher up, IMO. With Lerner. However good Garde may be, he'd need to be a miracle worker to make a silk purse out of that particular sow's ear.
Villa had a lot of transfer movement in the summer, both in and out. One of the main criticisms has been that they bought in a large number of players who aren't familiar with the league. Will bringing in a manager who has no experience of it in that capacity help? On the one hand, he's been in that position as a player and he understands the difficulties involved with that sort of move. The obvious downside is that he'll also be trying to overcome his own issues, while trying to help the players get over theirs. It's quite a risk, but it's got to be more interesting for neutrals than installing one of the usual relegation battlers.
A manager from outside of the premier league could galvanise those disparate players too, but it might take a while. I think Garde will do okay though. He's a manager who likes to play attacking football and he will instill some aspiration back to the club, rather than one of the cloggers who would just try and avoid relegation.
Spurs are playing villa tonight. Villa have a new manager and naturally their players will want to impress. Only you could take that as a dig at Spurs. #paranoid
I hope he's the final nail in their coffin. If ever a club deserved to go down it's those ****s perennially finishing bottom six.
Now, why would I think that? Especially coming from such a fair minded, unbiased individual, such as you? Only you can't stop having sly digs at Spurs.....
