Steven Gerrard - yes or no

[Lastfootstamper]

I still think we're better with a goalkeeper.

[walsall villain]

So it looks like liverpool's next manager will be appointed to the hotseat at VP. Things were looking good and optimistic there for a while regarding the Villa, but now we're back amongst the also-rans and the teams making up the numbers avoiding the sinkhole of relegation for the foreseeable future. Appointing gerrard is a lazy appointment. It's a vanity appointment by purslow who is increasingly looking like he's not up to the job of ceo. It's an appointment made in liverpool for the future benefit of liverpool. It's a stepping stone appointment. He doesn't get AVFC and he won't get the fans. SG's claret and blue army, it is not. The sh-te pundits or press will be all over gerrarrrrrrd like a rash. If things are going well it will be SG’s Aston Villa (you’re having a laugh!). When things are not going well it will be Aston Villa only, so as to not tarnish gerrarrrrrd’s reputation. His appointment is based on nothing!
Yes liverpool's next manager has a playing profile, but he has no creditable managerial profile and that's what matters. Spuds sack their manager and go out and get Conte. We sack ours and install someone who hasn't earned a single point in the English leagues as manager and very little in the spl (1 title in 3 seasons in the mighty spl?) Aston Villa is better than that to chance the club to someone who is only finding his feet in management.
Outside the scab 6, Leicester knew to get success they needed to appoint proper managers (Ranieri and Rodgers) and in so doing managed title and cup successes. In appointing gerrard we are miles away from the likes of Leicester, West Ham, Newcastle (when/if they get their act together) and possibly Everton and that's without mentioning the scab 6.
Top 10 will only be a dream with the threat of relegation and a fractured club more likely. I'm Villa through and through and will always support the 11 players out on the pitch. Ideally I like to support the dugout as well, but this appointment makes that very difficult.

So that’s a No then?

[danno]

I know Gerrard wants the Liverpool job, I know anybody who doesn't hate Liverpool wants Gerrard to get the Liverpool job, I know the media want Gerrard to get the Liverpool job.

What I don't understand is why would Liverpool, and in particular FSG (previously burned by appointing populist choice Kenny Dalglish after Roy Hodgson) choose to replace Klopp with somebody who in all likelihood will have won less than Brendon Rogers?!

[Toronto Villa]

4/4/3
Players played in position

That’s all I ask.

Love 4-4-3. 12 players. Unless you have Emi in that back 4. In which case that's shit

[chrisw1]

So it looks like liverpool's next manager will be appointed to the hotseat at VP. Things were looking good and optimistic there for a while regarding the Villa, but now we're back amongst the also-rans and the teams making up the numbers avoiding the sinkhole of relegation for the foreseeable future. Appointing gerrard is a lazy appointment. It's a vanity appointment by purslow who is increasingly looking like he's not up to the job of ceo. It's an appointment made in liverpool for the future benefit of liverpool. It's a stepping stone appointment. He doesn't get AVFC and he won't get the fans. SG's claret and blue army, it is not. The sh-te pundits or press will be all over gerrarrrrrrd like a rash. If things are going well it will be SG’s Aston Villa (you’re having a laugh!). When things are not going well it will be Aston Villa only, so as to not tarnish gerrarrrrrd’s reputation. His appointment is based on nothing!
Yes liverpool's next manager has a playing profile, but he has no creditable managerial profile and that's what matters. Spuds sack their manager and go out and get Conte. We sack ours and install someone who hasn't earned a single point in the English leagues as manager and very little in the spl (1 title in 3 seasons in the mighty spl?) Aston Villa is better than that to chance the club to someone who is only finding his feet in management.
Outside the scab 6, Leicester knew to get success they needed to appoint proper managers (Ranieri and Rodgers) and in so doing managed title and cup successes. In appointing gerrard we are miles away from the likes of Leicester, West Ham, Newcastle (when/if they get their act together) and possibly Everton and that's without mentioning the scab 6.
Top 10 will only be a dream with the threat of relegation and a fractured club more likely. I'm Villa through and through and will always support the 11 players out on the pitch. Ideally I like to support the dugout as well, but this appointment makes that very difficult.

What a load of melodramatic nonsence.

We're hiring a manager who is doing well at his current club.  He plays a shape that suits us and has a well regarded backroom team.  If he does very well there's a chance he will move on in maybe 3 years.  If he's done well enough to get the Liverpool job, who gives a fuck if he's leaving us in a better place?

How many managers have we had who've lasted more than 3 years anyway?  How many managers in the PL have been in their role more than 3 years?

It's not my favoured appointment but this sort of hysterical bullshit is ridiculous.  Get a fucking grip.

[walsall villain]

I know Gerrard wants the Liverpool job, I know anybody who doesn't hate Liverpool wants Gerrard to get the Liverpool job, I know the media want Gerrard to get the Liverpool job.

What I don't understand is why would Liverpool, and in particular FSG (previously burned by appointing populist choice Kenny Dalglish after Roy Hodgson) choose to replace Klopp with somebody who in all likelihood will have won less than Brendon Rogers?!

Gerrard would have to exceed my expectations at Villa to have a chance of managing Liverpool. It’s at least a couple of years away so I’m not stressing. My gut feeling is that it won’t work out at Villa but I’ll be 100% behind him and hoping to be surprised by roaring success.

[Small Rodent]

4/4/3
Players played in position

That’s all I ask.

Love 4-4-3. 12 players. Unless you have Emi in that back 4. In which case that's shit

Sorry that should be 3/4/3…not.

[Whiney MacWhineface]

There’s something about his hair that annoys me.

That’s all I contribute.

[Dazvillain]

It seems increasingly likely that he will get appointed, I would have preferred Martinez ….. I then read his poor statistics from his premier league time so maybe he’s not best either. Surely if it’s just ego based decision by Purslow, our very switched on owners wouldn’t fall for that ?
So if it is to be SG….. be good that Gary Mac comes back and he will “get” the club.
Do we think that his other assistant Michael Beale will come who he’s known since Liverpool days ? We’ve only just employed Aaron Danks and McPhee

[itmustbe_it is!]

Dean Smith : "They sacked  me for Steven F***ing Gerrard??? "

[Brazilian Villain]

There’s something about his hair that annoys me.

That’s all I contribute.

He has a good thick head of hair despite being in his 40s which may explain some posters' ire on here.

[Sexual Ealing]

This is absolutely not a dig at anyone, merely an observation about the H&V ecosystem, which concerns Villa matters only rather than politics etc. It always seems to be the same group of posters who take position X and another take position Y. The same people, with opposing views, on practically every issue. How the eff does that happen?!

[LeeB]

This is absolutely not a dig at anyone, merely an observation about the H&V ecosystem, which concerns Villa matters only rather than politics etc. It always seems to be the same group of posters who take position X and another take position Y. The same people, with opposing views, on practically every issue. How the eff does that happen?!

The ones on the other side are all thick

[Sexual Ealing]

This is absolutely not a dig at anyone, merely an observation about the H&V ecosystem, which concerns Villa matters only rather than politics etc. It always seems to be the same group of posters who take position X and another take position Y. The same people, with opposing views, on practically every issue. How the eff does that happen?!

The ones on the other side are all thick

That's what I was hoping.

[john e]

This is absolutely not a dig at anyone, merely an observation about the H&V ecosystem, which concerns Villa matters only rather than politics etc. It always seems to be the same group of posters who take position X and another take position Y. The same people, with opposing views, on practically every issue. How the eff does that happen?!

I think it all boils down to where are you stood in the old Holte End left or right