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No. Like I said, he wasn't the manager for a scrap but a decent shout if the club were taking a long term view. And my argument is that the club should do just that: accept a relegation and spend a couple of years getting back on an even keel. Having said that, if they wanted a manager with...

He'd been a manager for three years and had won the French cup, so he was scarcely an untried entity. And while he hadn't managed in the PL, he'd played in it so had a pretty good idea what was needed. I agree that if the club wanted someone to firefight and do well in the short term, he was a...

I disagree. The problem Garde faced is that the club wouldn't accept they were doomed and needed a few years in the lower leagues to rebuild. He was pretty much shafted once he was denied the funds to refresh the team in January (and should have walked out then TBH). Villa is a club where the...