Remi Garde looks to Villa talks to help club make progress

Garde and the squad were abused as they boarded the coach after Saturday’s 1-1 FA Cup draw at Wycombe, while Micah Richards also spoke to supporters to calm tensions during the game. Villa is a club in freefall.

While it is hard to make out what is being said throughout the entire conversation, you can hear one member of the group of fans asking Richards, “Where’s the passion?” 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.

New manager Remi Garde will be hopeful of getting his first win in charge of the club in the early game at Adams Park.

Amid links in recent weeks to the likes of Chelsea striker Loic Remy and Arsenal full-back Mathieu Debuchy, Garde told reporters: “I knew about the meeting in NY”. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or “live” services.

Crystal Palace forward Connor Wickham has returned to training and is set to be available for his side’s Barclays Premier League clash at Aston Villa on Tuesday night. “At some point it is important that the Aston Villa voice is not only mine”.

Villa were even closer to a late victor when Rudy Gestede’s deflected shot rebounded off the angle between post and crossbar, but Wycombe held on.

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We can then find another weird decision in referee Mike Oliver’s refusal to award Aston Villa penalty when Micah Richards was hauled down in the face of the goal.

There will be Villa fans who think I am relishing their desperate situation.

Garde is believed to want to sell up to a dozen players, including record scorer Gabby Agbonlahor, winger Charles N’Zogbia, as well as Joleon Lescott and a number of other players only brought in last summer.

“Every week we have games to play and I know how it is in football”, Garde said.

At Derby, we tried everything to lift the pall of gloom around the place, including a “fun” day at training where winners of novelty races won a bar of chocolate – but there’s no fun in being rock-bottom with only eight points in January.

However, they were forced to settle for a draw and a replay at Villa Park later this month, where they may well fancy their chances with the pressure on their rivals to secure a result that takes them through to the next round.