Remi Garde has said he’s relishing the challenge that is Aston Villa and our Premier League form, and he’s confident we don’t have to contemplate relegation but for that to happen we need to improve quickly.
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Garde will be in the dugout for the first time when Villa host leaders Manchester City on Sunday. Newcastle were linked with Garde in the summer after he stepped down at Lyon, but according to Sports Mole he wasn’t ready for a new role.
“There is a lot of work to do, but I was not disappointed with the players”, he added.
“It is frustrating obviously because you don’t get the results and it wasn’t because the players weren’t trying, it was because at certain times we made bad mistakes and we didn’t quite have the ability to score enough goals to overcome those mistakes”. We started already in the last two training sessions, it is a new start for the team. Each manager has his own view of football.
“If you are not winning for such a long period then that inevitability seems to be there but I would like to have seen him given a little bit longer to see if we could turn it around because we tried everything to get them playing in the best possible fashion”.
“I’m not coming to prepare for the next season in the lower division”.
Garde has never had to take charge of a side in a relegation battle, and he arrives at Villa in the year when staying in the Premier League is worth more than it ever has been. “We’re four points away from a good place”. I have worked with this type of thing before.
“I can not travel all over Europe so you need people to support you and I look at this organisation as a support of me, not something I will struggle with”.
“I will have the final say – that’s what is important”. I’m used to this.
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However, Villa are thought to be interested, with sporting director Hendrik Almstadt an admirer of the classy forward.
