Villa accept relegation is inevitable with lack of transfer activity

05 February 2016 10:45

Aston Villa can’t buy a win for love nor money and this is make increasing difficult when the board don’t offer any funds in the transfer window. I wrote an article when Remi Garde took over from Tim Sherwood in which I said that you should hold off judgement of him until after the January transfer window, and know that this has passed the verdict is in.

I, like most people, expected to seem Aston Villa as a sort of revolving door in January, with many players leaving and many additions being made, but this wasn’t that case. In fact Aston Villa didn’t make any new additions what so ever.

It has come out since that the Aston Villa board didn’t make any finds available to Garde at all and that is a sign to fans that relegation in inevitable.

I thought that Villa would have at least made a dash for a player that could have don’t a job for them in both the Premier League and the Championship. Jordan Rhodes transferred from Blackburn to Middlesbrough, who splashed the cash in this window to ensure their automatic promotion place, and I expect Villa to make a move to hijack it.

Rhodes has scored 20 goals in each of his last three season and has been knocking on the door of a big money move the hold time and finally got it. I saw Rhodes as a risk free move because he would have chipped in until the end of this season and even if Villa do get relegated then he will offer guaranteed goals in the Championship.

With two wins all season and just thirteen points to their name Villa are on course for one of the worst records in Premier League history. I don’t believe that it’s totally Remi Garde’s fault because the players often look uninterested but if you have to point a finger you would point it at Garde.

He hasn’t got the leadership skills to motivate players when they are down and the team is filled with personalities rather that team-mates.

Finally, no club should ever confine to relegation. It is only inevitable when it’s mathematically impossible to crawl out of it. Football is a strange game and anything can happen – just look at Leicester and Chelsea this season. In fact the only thing that this season is missing is a great escape and Aston Villa folded when they made no effort to turn their season around.

Source: DSG