Steven Gerrard - yes or no

[Richard E]

‘ I don’t like Liverpool’ and/or ‘I don’t like Rangers’ seem to be the basis of a lot of the objections to him but they don’t strike me as convincing arguments against employing a particular individual. And I hate Liverpool as much as anyone does.

[Drummond]

I coped with Terry being here. I think because he kept under the radar and did his job. It never once became about him. This however, is different, it will be Gerrard's Villa, it will be Liverpool legend, it will be a circus. And when he's sacked you can bet we'll have done the wrong thing.

Anyway, not long to wait to see his first team. Let's hope we win the next 5 and we can all shut up and be surprised.

If the fickle football fan could be summed up in one paragraph you’ve just achieved it. If you are so vehemently against the appointment you should pin your colours to the mast forever. I, for one , will be fucking delighted to point and laugh when you come on here to apologise. You will, of course, be willing him to fail so will watch carefully your posts over the coming weeks.

Oh shut up.

And here's the last paragraph of the Telegraph article..

"He is also set for an emotional return to Liverpool, the club where he made over 500 appearances, on Saturday December 11."

[The_ads]

I coped with Terry being here. I think because he kept under the radar and did his job. It never once became about him. This however, is different, it will be Gerrard's Villa, it will be Liverpool legend, it will be a circus. And when he's sacked you can bet we'll have done the wrong thing.

Anyway, not long to wait to see his first team. Let's hope we win the next 5 and we can all shut up and be surprised.

If the fickle football fan could be summed up in one paragraph you’ve just achieved it. If you are so vehemently against the appointment you should pin your colours to the mast forever. I, for one , will be fucking delighted to point and laugh when you come on here to apologise. You will, of course, be willing him to fail so will watch carefully your posts over the coming weeks.

Oh shut up.

And here's the last paragraph of the Telegraph article..

"He is also set for an emotional return to Liverpool, the club where he made over 500 appearances, on Saturday December 11."

Don’t be so angry mate. I don’t give a fuck what it says in the Telegraph. Why are you getting so emotional about what’s written by a journalist. You’ll be on here, after every defeat, crying “I told you so” when we lose. You can’t wait for him to fail so you can stand tall and tell your mates that you told a load of strangers on the internet that you were right

As I said. I’ll be following your posts. I hope he’s the most successful manager of the last 30 years of the premier league for us, I’ll be right behind him. So should you be.

[gpbarr]

I coped with Terry being here. I think because he kept under the radar and did his job. It never once became about him. This however, is different, it will be Gerrard's Villa, it will be Liverpool legend, it will be a circus. And when he's sacked you can bet we'll have done the wrong thing.

Anyway, not long to wait to see his first team. Let's hope we win the next 5 and we can all shut up and be surprised.

If the fickle football fan could be summed up in one paragraph you’ve just achieved it. If you are so vehemently against the appointment you should pin your colours to the mast forever. I, for one , will be fucking delighted to point and laugh when you come on here to apologise. You will, of course, be willing him to fail so will watch carefully your posts over the coming weeks.

Oh shut up.

And here's the last paragraph of the Telegraph article..

"He is also set for an emotional return to Liverpool, the club where he made over 500 appearances, on Saturday December 11."

Don’t be so angry mate. I don’t give a fuck what it says in the Telegraph. Why are you getting so emotional about what’s written by a journalist. You’ll be on here, after every defeat, crying “I told you so” when we lose. You can’t wait for him to fail so you can stand tall and tell your mates that you told a load of strangers on the internet that you were right

As I said. I’ll be following your posts. I hope he’s the most successful manager of the last 30 years of the premier league for us, I’ll be right behind him. So should you be.

Stop it with the telling people what they should and shouldn’t do. His rights and opinions are as valid as yours

[Richard E]

All non-sociopaths care what other people think.

There’s a bit of a difference between being uncaring about other people’s legitimate concerns and rights and not giving a toss about the irrelevant opinions of people whose views on a topic don’t matter.

[paul_e]

I dont see how it would have anything to do with Liverpool.  If Terry, Mr Chelsea, can play one season and be a coach here and love us,  then why not Gerrard? If Stevie La is successful, then just imagine how under and into his skin we will become.

It's easier to name those who don't fall madly in love with us than those who do.

FWIW saw this 'theory' put forward on the Rangers site by one of its 'well-known' posters which is at least novel if a tad unbelievable.

Mate down here in Wales is an agent, spoke to him just now and he reckons it was all set up for Gerrard to go at the end of the season but Villa’s league position and Smith sacking brought it forward. Says that the owners of Villa are Liverpool fans and have a huge hard on for SG. They have visions of building a City Group style of global network of clubs and see Gerrard as being central to that. He’s now in the safest seat in the EPL, his mate is his boss and his biggest fan boys write the cheques. He doubts he’s even got it in his head now to join Liverpool, reckons Gerrard will have/get equity in the group.

Based on everything that's happened in the last few months that 'feels' like it could be pretty accurate. There's already been the talks about setting up a club in MLS. I've said before the choice to not spend anything other than the Grealish money felt, to me, like they were building up a buffer to spend big at some point (I said Janaury but next summer makes sense as well). I can also see the appeal, in those circumstances, of sidestepping from Smith to Gerrard to make things a bit 'sexier' for the marketing side of things.

[N'ZMAV]

calm down kiddies - he's not joined yet. It's hardly McLeish.

[chrisw1]

I coped with Terry being here. I think because he kept under the radar and did his job. It never once became about him. This however, is different, it will be Gerrard's Villa, it will be Liverpool legend, it will be a circus. And when he's sacked you can bet we'll have done the wrong thing.

Anyway, not long to wait to see his first team. Let's hope we win the next 5 and we can all shut up and be surprised.

If the fickle football fan could be summed up in one paragraph you’ve just achieved it. If you are so vehemently against the appointment you should pin your colours to the mast forever. I, for one , will be fucking delighted to point and laugh when you come on here to apologise. You will, of course, be willing him to fail so will watch carefully your posts over the coming weeks.

Oh shut up.

And here's the last paragraph of the Telegraph article..

"He is also set for an emotional return to Liverpool, the club where he made over 500 appearances, on Saturday December 11."

Don’t be so angry mate. I don’t give a fuck what it says in the Telegraph. Why are you getting so emotional about what’s written by a journalist. You’ll be on here, after every defeat, crying “I told you so” when we lose. You can’t wait for him to fail so you can stand tall and tell your mates that you told a load of strangers on the internet that you were right

As I said. I’ll be following your posts. I hope he’s the most successful manager of the last 30 years of the premier league for us, I’ll be right behind him. So should you be.

The_Ads - Drummond has over 20,000 posts on this board and you have absolutely no idea what he is like.  I'm not sure if you're a few beers in, but seriously take a break for a bit.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

I coped with Terry being here. I think because he kept under the radar and did his job. It never once became about him. This however, is different, it will be Gerrard's Villa, it will be Liverpool legend, it will be a circus. And when he's sacked you can bet we'll have done the wrong thing.

Anyway, not long to wait to see his first team. Let's hope we win the next 5 and we can all shut up and be surprised.

If the fickle football fan could be summed up in one paragraph you’ve just achieved it. If you are so vehemently against the appointment you should pin your colours to the mast forever. I, for one , will be fucking delighted to point and laugh when you come on here to apologise. You will, of course, be willing him to fail so will watch carefully your posts over the coming weeks.

Oh shut up.

And here's the last paragraph of the Telegraph article..

"He is also set for an emotional return to Liverpool, the club where he made over 500 appearances, on Saturday December 11."

Don’t be so angry mate. I don’t give a fuck what it says in the Telegraph. Why are you getting so emotional about what’s written by a journalist. You’ll be on here, after every defeat, crying “I told you so” when we lose. You can’t wait for him to fail so you can stand tall and tell your mates that you told a load of strangers on the internet that you were right

As I said. I’ll be following your posts. I hope he’s the most successful manager of the last 30 years of the premier league for us, I’ll be right behind him. So should you be.

Stop it with the telling people what they should and shouldn’t do. His rights and opinions are as valid as yours

Stop telling people to stop telling other people to stop whatever they are saying. Well that's my opinion anyway.

[Drummond]

I coped with Terry being here. I think because he kept under the radar and did his job. It never once became about him. This however, is different, it will be Gerrard's Villa, it will be Liverpool legend, it will be a circus. And when he's sacked you can bet we'll have done the wrong thing.

Anyway, not long to wait to see his first team. Let's hope we win the next 5 and we can all shut up and be surprised.

If the fickle football fan could be summed up in one paragraph you’ve just achieved it. If you are so vehemently against the appointment you should pin your colours to the mast forever. I, for one , will be fucking delighted to point and laugh when you come on here to apologise. You will, of course, be willing him to fail so will watch carefully your posts over the coming weeks.

Oh shut up.

And here's the last paragraph of the Telegraph article..

"He is also set for an emotional return to Liverpool, the club where he made over 500 appearances, on Saturday December 11."

Don’t be so angry mate. I don’t give a fuck what it says in the Telegraph. Why are you getting so emotional about what’s written by a journalist. You’ll be on here, after every defeat, crying “I told you so” when we lose. You can’t wait for him to fail so you can stand tall and tell your mates that you told a load of strangers on the internet that you were right

As I said. I’ll be following your posts. I hope he’s the most successful manager of the last 30 years of the premier league for us, I’ll be right behind him. So should you be.

I think the person showing most emotion here is you. You can read all of my posts, you can see my whole posting history and you'll know if you've read them that I, probably more so than anyone else, has supported all of our managers, probably beyond what is reasonable! As for showing off to my mates, I've really no need to do that. And I've said before, I don't want any Villa manager to fail. I think there's a good chance he will, though he'll be managing a better squad than any manager for a long time. It's a shame Smith didn't get the full benefit.

You can be the best fan if you like; kiss his arse, sing him songs, get his autograph. He can earn it as far as I'm concerned because I'm not some starstruck fan boy.

[Sexual Ealing]

He's clearly the unity candidate then.

[Clive W]

I coped with Terry being here. I think because he kept under the radar and did his job. It never once became about him. This however, is different, it will be Gerrard's Villa, it will be Liverpool legend, it will be a circus. And when he's sacked you can bet we'll have done the wrong thing.

Anyway, not long to wait to see his first team. Let's hope we win the next 5 and we can all shut up and be surprised.

If the fickle football fan could be summed up in one paragraph you’ve just achieved it. If you are so vehemently against the appointment you should pin your colours to the mast forever. I, for one , will be fucking delighted to point and laugh when you come on here to apologise. You will, of course, be willing him to fail so will watch carefully your posts over the coming weeks.

Oh shut up.

And here's the last paragraph of the Telegraph article..

"He is also set for an emotional return to Liverpool, the club where he made over 500 appearances, on Saturday December 11."

Of course it will be an emotional return

By my reckoning he was at Liverpool for 27 years

If you went back to a company you had worked for for 27 years, or went back to a house you had lived in for 27 years, would you not feel “emotional”?

[ChicagoLion]

Rangers say no approach has been made to speak to StevieMe

[N'ZMAV]

I coped with Terry being here. I think because he kept under the radar and did his job. It never once became about him. This however, is different, it will be Gerrard's Villa, it will be Liverpool legend, it will be a circus. And when he's sacked you can bet we'll have done the wrong thing.

Anyway, not long to wait to see his first team. Let's hope we win the next 5 and we can all shut up and be surprised.

If the fickle football fan could be summed up in one paragraph you’ve just achieved it. If you are so vehemently against the appointment you should pin your colours to the mast forever. I, for one , will be fucking delighted to point and laugh when you come on here to apologise. You will, of course, be willing him to fail so will watch carefully your posts over the coming weeks.

Oh shut up.

And here's the last paragraph of the Telegraph article..

"He is also set for an emotional return to Liverpool, the club where he made over 500 appearances, on Saturday December 11."

Of course it will be an emotional return

By my reckoning he was at Liverpool for 27 years

If you went back to a company you had worked for for 27 years, or went back to a house you had lived in for 27 years, would you not feel “emotional”?

stop being rational.

[Drummond]

I coped with Terry being here. I think because he kept under the radar and did his job. It never once became about him. This however, is different, it will be Gerrard's Villa, it will be Liverpool legend, it will be a circus. And when he's sacked you can bet we'll have done the wrong thing.

Anyway, not long to wait to see his first team. Let's hope we win the next 5 and we can all shut up and be surprised.

If the fickle football fan could be summed up in one paragraph you’ve just achieved it. If you are so vehemently against the appointment you should pin your colours to the mast forever. I, for one , will be fucking delighted to point and laugh when you come on here to apologise. You will, of course, be willing him to fail so will watch carefully your posts over the coming weeks.

Oh shut up.

And here's the last paragraph of the Telegraph article..

"He is also set for an emotional return to Liverpool, the club where he made over 500 appearances, on Saturday December 11."

Of course it will be an emotional return

By my reckoning he was at Liverpool for 27 years

If you went back to a company you had worked for for 27 years, or went back to a house you had lived in for 27 years, would you not feel “emotional”?

My point is that he hasn't even joined and already people are telling about him going back to Liverpool and the emotional stuff.