Garde eyes Aston Villa signings

“I understand that the fans could be angry”.

Aston Villa players have embarked on the most dribbles in the Premier League so far in 2015-16 (546) but only one club (Newcastle, 41.6 per cent) has a lower dribble success rate than the Villans (43.4 per cent).

“We have to accept that, as a player, a manager, everybody at the club has to accept that criticism, because we are not winning – that’s football”, said Garde. Richards attempted to appease the fans but it was the latest sorry episode in a miserable season. That’s the bottom line.

Aston Villa will be desperate for a win when they visit Legue Two outfit Wycombe Wanderers in the third round of the FA Cup on Saturday. “The day I feel that I am not able to do something positive for this huge football club, you will know it”.

“I’ve got a lot of respect for Wycombe, especially after the game, but then we have to question ourselves and wonder why we didn’t win”, he said, according to The Mirror.

The side from Croydon are flying high in 6th position in the table, and speaking about the prospect of playing Aston Villa tomorrow evening, Miller was aware Palace must exploit Villa’s lack of confidence.

When asked about the complaints from Premier League managers about the congested fixture schedule, Millen insisted that he was not anxious about a heavy run of games and said it can help to build momentum. Wycombe could and likely should have won and Villa certainly should have performed a lot better.

Michael Harriman, signed from Queens Park Rangers last week for a “nominal fee”, is the only player to have cost any money in Ainsworth’s squad.

But Garde’s men took the lead on 22 minutes with a simple goal.

“We have done our homework on them”.

Both sides made changes from their teams which lost to Morecambe and Sunderland respectively last weekend.

“We’ll see what happens up at Villa Park, we’ll be giving our all again”.

Boss Remi Garde hopes crunch talks between the Aston Villa hierarchy will begin to resolve the club’s problems.

However things appeared to come to a boil after the side was held to a draw at Adams Park in the third-round tie when Micah Richards’ first-half effort was cancelled out in the 50th minute courtesy of Joe Jacobson’s penalty.

Villa conserved the ball well after being rattled in the opening stages and soon created chances of their own.

He added: “They are not saying they don’t like the project and they are not afraid of it but they are waiting for better opportunities before saying “yes” to me”. In the end it did work in our favour and they got on their players’ backs.

However, as fans, we now need to express our discontent (appropriately) more than ever: if you can find a constructive way to do that then good luck to you.