Steven Gerrard - yes or no

[dorsetvillian]

It's a no from me. Replacing Deano with Gerrard is depressing.

[KRS]

I genuinely don’t understand why we’re being linked with Gerrard or why our recruitment team would be interested in bringing him in to replace Smith. It doesn’t make sense.

I’ve never watched Rangers play and I’ve never watched Rangers play under Gerrard so I have absolutely no idea if he’s a good manager or has them playing exciting football. What I do know is that any manager worth his salt would be able to win a few trophies easy enough with either Rangers or Celtic…and that in no way should ever translate to being considered good enough to manage Villa or realise our owners ambitions of qualifying for European football…and even less so if it’s a managers first attempt at football management, and is then expected to cut his teeth in the Premier League with our club.

I don’t care if he’s supposed to be the chosen one for Liverpool in the future. If he does a good job for us then that means we’ll likely have qualified for Europe and be able to attract a top European manager. Gerrard is also equally as likely to get offered the England job at some stage if he does well for us as he would if the Liverpool job became vacant. Similarly, any other manager we appoint may have ambitions of managing more high profile clubs and there is nothing we could do to prevent any of those teams approaching our new manager should he be successful with us.

I said it weeks ago, but if the ambition of our owners is to get in to Europe then Smith should be sacked but if the ambition is to simply stay mid table in the Premier League then we may as well keep him. I don’t see how a relatively inexperienced manager meets the ambitions of our owners or is worth sacking Smith for…it doesn’t make sense, and for that reason I don’t want Gerrard as I don’t think he will be able to get us to where we want to be simply because he is totally unproven in management.

[dekko]

I was going to vote no but then I saw the collective wailing and gnashing of teeth here and I changed it to yes out of spite

[cdbearsfan]

Okay, James Dean.

[Rory]

I was going to vote no but then I saw the collective wailing and gnashing of teeth here and I changed it to yes out of spite

You best watch yourself, or SE will lay his fists all over you (and possibly fellate your father).

[N'ZMAV]

[wittonwarrior]

couldn't think of a worse option

[Rory]

I've seen enough episodes of 'Cops' to work out what's happening there. The black guy is using his knee to violently assault the white guy's foot.

Was that before or after the infamous Keane assault? Interesting that one has been played over and over for years, and one has largely been forgotten.

[PeterWithe]

If anybody still thinks gerrard, then read chris sutton’s comment.

“Eventually Gerrard will come down south and of course the talk is he is going to end up at Liverpool. I don't want to call Aston Villa a stepping stone - they are an enormous club - but he needs to maybe learn his trade at a club like Villa, not at a club who are going to compete at the very top of the table.”

gerrard, if he came would indicate that we’re not an ambitious club, but at best we would be also rans, happy to make up the numbers, so long as the scab 6 get what they want.
Yet 20+ supposed Villa fans are happy with this judging by the votes.

But that’s Suttons words not Gerrard, I’m not sure he’s saying anything too controversial, we’ve just lost the best player of a generation because we aren’t at the top table yet.

[RamboandBruno]

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Your finest work to date by a country mile.

Perfect !!

Im sitting here and think there is too much noise around this for it not to be true, one of the leading stories on bbc sport for example, so not just the bham mail clickbait.
And the question i ask myself is why?? I just dont get this. I was a huge supporter of Dean until the last few weeks when i thought he had run his course imo, but my God be careful what you wish for. Wtf is Purslow playing at? Have they even tried to sound out some big hitters like Ten Haag, or is this just Purslows vanity trip with his mate. In hindsight Smith was so popular that its big shoes to fill for anyone and they have to hit the ground running and win the supporters over as well as the players, why would we go for a relative managerial novice with this in mind. Its not just Stevie G though, the whole list is uninspiring, Martinez ffs, is that what we want a midtable at best  journeyman, is that why we sacked Smith?

And its a no.

[Behind Bluenose Lines]

As Danni Minogue used to say in the early rounds of X Factor to unsuccessful acts in the first few series:

"I'm sorry, but it's a no!"

Unfortunately, it appears more and more likely that it will be a "yes". I'm blaming Purslow already.   

[Risso]

Was that before or after the infamous Keane assault? Interesting that one has been played over and over for years, and one has largely been forgotten.

It's a bit different though. Keane had decided before the game he was going out to 'do' Haaland, and it was therefore a deliberate act of violence and malice. The Gerrard tackle was a shocker, but I don't think it was premeditated.

[malckennedy]

No. I want Martinez.

[Rory]

Was that before or after the infamous Keane assault? Interesting that one has been played over and over for years, and one has largely been forgotten.

It's a bit different though. Keane had decided before the game he was going out to 'do' Haaland, and it was therefore a deliberate act of violence and malice. The Gerrard tackle was a shocker, but I don't think it was premeditated.

But didn't we only find that out years later when Keane released his autobiography?

George B was a pretty nasty player at times, and from that challenge, I'd say Gerrard's intent was to put one on him as a bit of a marker.

[Brazilian Villain]

They always look worse slowed down.