“They also care about the project that we present to them”.
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Villa’s rowdy travelling contingent lambasted Garde for replacing stand-out midfielder Carles Gil, chanting “you don’t know what you’re doing”.
“But I need to see that they are fully committed to the team, that they want to help the team and have the behaviour”.
Frenchman Garde has now gone 10 matches without victory in his Villa career, with the extra fixture in the shape of the third round replay only adding to the pressure on the beleaguered boss.
He said: “When you are not winning the manager is always making bad decisions”. You can never say it is his last game. “It’s important and I hope I will achieve that, I don’t know yet”.
The side already look doomed to relegation to the Championship as they sit rock-bottom in the Premier League – 11 points from safety – without a win since the opening day of the season at Bournemouth in August.
Earlier, captain Micah Richards had approached the away end of the crowd in an effort to temper their frustrations but was met with abuse and one fan had to be restrained.
Garde recently said of Remy: “Loic is a guy I know well and of course it would be an interesting player for the team”, said Garde, who was assistant manager when Remy started his career at Lyon.
Garde has been told by Villa’s medics that Agbonlahor’s injury situation has improved and the boss now plans to discuss the striker’s commitment levels with him.
“In the long-term, for sure, the squad needs overhauling but during this transfer window, as I have said, January is not the best time to do things because it is very hard for many reasons”.
Garde revealed that Jack Grealish did not come into consideration for selection because he has been suffering from tonsilitis. They had a strong claim for a penalty turned down in the first half, saw referee Michael Oliver award Wycombe a dubious penalty for Ashley Westwood’s clash with Matt Bloomfield and suffered more agony when Gestede’s late deflected shot struck the bar.
“This is something I asked from them a fortnight ago, or something like that”.
“In the first half I think that we stopped playing after the first goal and until then it was direct football from both teams”.
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“I know the finances to the penny, so know what this means to us and how much it will go towards paying off our debt”.
