braineclipse
Steve Sedgley
To be fair, you sell your 3 best players and the chances are you are going to struggle, especially when your'e as bricke as Villa. If they avoid relegation then Garde deserves manager of the season. They could have very easily gone down in any of the last 3 seasons, if not for Benteke they would have.
They got over £40m for those players though, and spent all of it and a tiny bit more. Sherwood signed 6 players that cost between £6-9m in addition to Sinclair rather cheaply.
He's now coming out saying that there's a lot of talent in the lower leagues. Meanwhile he actually signed 5 players from abroad, a couple from the PL and only Gestede from the lower leagues.
They were perhaps always going to struggle losing the players they lost. But he made a bad situation worse. Then he speaks out after that about his knowledge about the lower leagues, the quality available and about what PL clubs should do in the transfer market.
Much like some of the things he said as a Spurs manager this seems disconnected from reality.
To be fair to him it was his first ever pre-season and summer transfer window at a club as a manager. He has little to no experience actually doing this brick. No real surprise he failed.