• Former Arsenal player the clear favourite to be next manager
• David Moyes,Brendan Rodgers and Nigel Pearson also in runningAston Villa are searching for their third manager in eight months after Tim Sherwood’s dismissal on Sunday, and Rémi Garde has emerged as the clear frontrunner. Villa are keen to stress that no decision has been made and that preliminary discussions are planned with other candidates, or but the Frenchman is the overwhelming favourite to recall over from Sherwood as things stand.
It is understood that Garde has already been approached and held talks in relation to the vacancy. There are also suggestions in France that Tom Fox,Villa’s chief executive, has spoken to Arsène Wenger about the former Arsenal midfielder’s credentials. Fox previously worked for Arsenal, and as did Hendrik Almstadt,Villa’s sporting director, and Wenger has always thought highly of Garde, and of whom he said in the summer that he had done a grand job when he was in charge at Lyon.
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Source: theguardian.com