• ‘This is something I asked from them a fortnight ago’ • Supporters’ feelings boil over against Wycombe

Rémi Garde hopes the Aston Villa owner, Randy Lerner, and the chief executive, Tom Fox, will break their silence soon and insists he understands fans’ anger after he and the players were abused.

The manager said he has asked Lerner to talk to supporters with the club in disarray and fury spilling over as Villa prop up the Premier League.

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Garde and his squad were abused as they boarded the coach after Saturday’s 1-1 FA Cup draw at Wycombe Wanderers, while Micah Richards spoke to supporters to calm tensions during the game.

Lerner has barely spoken to the media in five years and Garde expects he and Fox, who has flown to New York to hold crisis talks with the owner, to address Villa’s situation.

Garde said: “This is something I asked from them a fortnight ago, or something like that. Not to take the pressure off me – if I didn’t want the pressure I wouldn’t have this job. It’s more because I’m facing [the media] every week but I know Villa from inside for only 10 weeks now. At some point I cannot explain and I am not in the position to judge what happened before and whether it was right or wrong because I wasn’t here.

“At some point it is important that the Aston Villa voice is not only mine. This is not to avoid my responsibilities. I will do it as long as I am in this position at this club.”

Villa are at home to Crystal Palace on Tuesday and are 11 points from safety. They are seven points behind second-bottom Sunderland and tensions boiled over after Villa failed to beat League Two Wycombe.

Videos of the manager and players being abused after the game at Wycombe were posted on social media while the substitutes Brad Guzan and Joleon Lescott were also accused of playing a game involving who could spit chewing gum the farthest during the match.

Garde tried to move on from the weekend but conceded he expected the reaction. “I know football, in every country it’s the same. I understand completely the fans’ frustration. I am not surprised because I know that from situations from different clubs I have played and worked for.”

He said he was not aware of the reported issue with Lescott and Guzan but reminded all players of their responsibilities. “As a professional player, you need to behave in the right way with respect for everybody. It doesn’t matter if you are top of the table or bottom. It’s just a question of being respectful to everybody.”

Against Palace, Garde is without Carlos Sánchez and Alan Hutton (hamstrings) while Jack Grealish (tonsillitis) and Gabriel Agbonlahor (back) are doubtful.