Garde was in charge of Villa for 147 days between November and March of last season.
Former Aston Villa manager Remi Garde has described the job of head coach at the club as “a trap” and suggested that he was lured into accepting the job without being able to know what he was getting himself into, speaking to Telefoot.
Garde took over a struggling Villa last November after the sacking of Tim Sherwood but managed just three wins in five months in charge.
The former Lyon boss appeared a strange appointment at the time with the club fighting for their life, and he was unable to have any real impact on their fortunes.
A large factor in that failure was likely the fact that he was not backed in the slightest by former owner Randy Lerner in the January transfer window – with the club cut adrift at the bottom of the league, Lerner chose not to supply his manager with funds to improve the squad.
The Frenchman has now spoken out about his ill-fated reign at Villa Park and suggested that when he took the job it was in effect a trap for a manager to fall into without full knowledge of what was to come.
Garde told Telefoot: “You know I love this country [England], I played a little bit. I had a very short period of coach there. I would like to again lead England in better conditions that to Aston Villa.
“Yes, it looked like a trap that I was not able to unravel before accepting. I was too excited, it will serve me a lesson.”
Villa are a mess of a club at the moment, and in fact have only won one game since the latter of Garde’s two victories in early February.
After the sacking of Garde’s replacement Roberto di Matteo they are now looking for their fourth ‘permanent’ manager since February 2015.
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