Remi Garde may reassess his position after Villa's lacklustre transfer window

Aston Villa manager Remi Garde has suggested he may need to re-examine his position at the club after the January transfer window came and went without the relegation-threatened side making a single move.

Villa, sitting at the bottom of the table - a full 10 points away from safety - watched as clubs in a similar position strengthened significantly. As noted by the Guardian, the Frenchman was interested in signing both Seydou Doumbia and Wahbi Khazri, but the two men signed for Newcastle and Sunderland, respectively.

As such, Garde suggested Monday that priorities may have shifted since he joined the Premier League outfit in November.

"Maybe it was not as clear when I signed, but it’s something that I don’t want to discuss too much," Garde said.

"I understand that you cannot carry on doing the same things when you have not been as successful as you have wanted. I cannot say the club hasn’t done everything they could. It wouldn’t be fair. I’m not happy about this situation. I am not stupid and saying we need nobody.

"Some people have to be brave enough to say what have we done wrong in the past and what we should be doing now to stop that and to be better, maybe not in the next months but the next season or in two or three years."