Steven Gerrard | Al-Ettifaq Manager

[FatTails]

He did well early on, and seemed to quickly get to grips with the job, but then it started slipping away from him, and Villa slipped down the table.

 

[#88]

He did well early on, and seemed to quickly get to grips with the job, but then it started slipping away from him, and Villa slipped down the table.

Slippy G.
Delighted for him.

 

[Flexdegea]

Surely the title has to be changed to sack watch

 

[izec]

Will get sacked this season

 

[youmeletsfly]

Will get sacked this season

My prediction is he'll get sacked in 5 games.

 

[BluesJr]

Fraudulent. As suspected.

 

[Skills]

Hehe this is great

 

[TheLord]

Two or three similar sloppy performances and he will have slipped from the manager's role!

 

[Someone]

Gerrard & Lampard had no business managing at the top level. Both will be sacked this season.

 

[Semper Fudge]

Disappointing he couldn't fluke it long enough to con his way into the Liverpool job.

 

[SilentWitness]

Absolute poo. Has loads of money to play with and he’s still wank.

 

[Judas]

Disappointing he couldn't fluke it long enough to con his way into the Liverpool job.

Yep really wanted him to manage them and do terribly, Klopp might be replaced by someone decent now.

 

[Buchan]

Gerrard was immediately put on ‘fraud watch’ when Beale left the setup and now we know why.

 

[tomaldinho1]

My bet for first sacked this season, spent heavily and they’ve regressed.

 

[Blood Mage]

Will be the first manager to get the sack. Villa have a better team than their performances and results would suggest.

 

[Lay]

Will be the first manager to get the sack. Villa have a better team than their performances and results would suggest.

Lampard might beat him to it

 

[V.O.]

I don't think there's any excuse to not be getting top half with that squad. Bit early for the sack still, but he didn't show any more with the tail end of last season either.

 

[Dumbstar]

Where's the villa fan on here? How is he doing tactics and playing wise? Is it a mess as the results are suggesting?

 

[Beans]

Lampard might beat him to it

Just watched some of Forest vs Everton, Everton lacked passion and cutting edge. Can see them going down.

 

[visiting villain]

he might make a good sporting director but he is utterly clueless with any type of management. made our worst midfielder the captain, our tactics are bombing forward fullbacks and 5 attacking players with the cbs and Kamara/Luiz in defense.

One of the worst managers i've seen at Villa in my lifetime so far

 

[FootballHQ]

He has to go.

 

[CarbonStoolBites]

Not looking good for him, that team on paper should be doing much better.
He really needs to step it up soon, or he’ll never be in the run for the Liverpool job after Klopp.
We need him to do well at Villa.

He has to go.

Who would you want in? Poch might be a good shout.

 

[phelans shorts]

Lampard might beat him to it

No chance. He’s liked by the fans and after Usmanov having his assets frozen they’ll really struggle to pay him off.

 

[Castia]

Gerrard or Lampard first to get fired this season

 

[FootballHQ]

Where's the villa fan on here? How is he doing tactics and playing wise? Is it a mess as the results are suggesting?

There's no real tactics tbh, Palace completely outplayed us first half and we were lucky to go in 1-1. So had a chance to tweak things, maybe put on Douglas Luiz to try to get some tempo in central midfield but he stayed on the bench and only came on at 3-1.

His only response was to put Ings on so he's just one of those managers too simplistic in his approach which we all feared based on the more measured analysis of his time at Rangers.

Our next three games are West Ham, Arsenal and Man. City. As a guide Dean Smith had 10 points from first 6 games last season. We'd need 7 points from those three just to match that.

 

[Beans]

He should market those rubber pads you put under your carpet. "This does not slip," says Steve.

But they do, they do slip.

 

[Skills]

There's no real tactics tbh, Palace completely outplayed us first half and we were lucky to go in 1-1. So had a chance to tweak things, maybe put on Douglas Luiz to try to get some tempo in central midfield but he stayed on the bench and only came on at 3-1.

His only response was to put Ings on so he's just one of those managers too simplistic in his approach which we all feared based on the more measured analysis of his time at Rangers.

Our next three games are West Ham, Arsenal and Man. City. As a guide Dean Smith had 10 points from first 6 games last season. We'd need 7 points from those three just to match that.

Sounds like his approach to management is the same as it was as a player

 

[FootballHQ]

Not looking good for him, that team on paper should be doing much better.
He really needs to step it up soon, or he’ll never be in the run for the Liverpool job after Klopp.
We need him to do well at Villa.



Who would you want in? Poch might be a good shout.

I would love Poch and genuinely think he'd consider us. Yes we're not Spurs but we still have some players he'd rate and could drill into his pressing system. Plus after his PSG stint he'll probably prefer building a club up with a good budget compared to dealing with endless egos. Might aswell ask the question as someone like Newcastle probably will in two years time.

If Leicester are losing to Southampton at home that suggests Rodgers will be leaving them shortly and I'd be o.k with him aswell. Fizzling out at Leicester but they've still finished 5th, 5th and 8th under him with an FA cup and european SF thrown in so pretty decent body of work for team that was 13th in prem when he took over.

 

[FootballHQ]

Sounds like his approach to management is the same as it was as a player

Making John McGinn the captain when he's never been the same at prem level since doing his ligaments in late 2019 says it all.

We need some strategy for this team and Gerrard simply dosen't have enough knowledge or experience as a manager to provide it.

Still early in season to put things right, I mean it took about 9 games for Spurs to sack Nuno and they haven't regretted that decision.

 

[hatchetmac]

Making John McGinn the captain when he's never been the same at prem level since doing his ligaments in late 2019 says it all.

We need some strategy for this team and Gerrard simply dosen't have enough knowledge or experience as a manager to provide it.

Still early in season to put things right, I mean it took about 9 games for Spurs to sack Nuno and they haven't regretted that decision.

Ole is free if not Big Sam is available

 

[Winzaghi]

Where's the villa fan on here? How is he doing tactics and playing wise? Is it a mess as the results are suggesting?

It's worse actually. He's no better than Tactics Tim at this point. Literally no positives to take from these games. The players looks like they are procedurally generated before each match and have never met.

 

[Camilo]

Rumour in Scotland is that hearts are lining him up as their next boss.

 

[ShoePolish]

Think Poch might fancy Villa. They'd be smart to start sounding him out now.

 

[Swedish_Plumber]

Gerrard & Lampard had no business managing at the top level. Both will be sacked this season.

At least there was logic in Gerrard getting the Villa job. How Chelsea came to the decision of giving lampard the role is still baffling.

 

[Winzaghi]

Think Poch might fancy Villa. They'd be smart to start sounding him out now.

Purslow will give his mate plenty of rope and drag this out until it's completely untenable, by which point it'd probably be too late for Poch.

 

[Sandikan]

Disappointing he couldn't fluke it long enough to con his way into the Liverpool job.

Exactly this.
Although now Klopp signed on for so many more years, Gerrard would have had to have sustained the early decent success for years.
And if he did that maybe he was good after all!

 

[Klopper76]

At least there was logic in Gerrard getting the Villa job. How Chelsea came to the decision of giving lampard the role is still baffling.

Vieira’s a better manager than both of them imo.

 

[reddev3]

I would love Poch and genuinely think he'd consider us. Yes we're not Spurs but we still have some players he'd rate and could drill into his pressing system. Plus after his PSG stint he'll probably prefer building a club up with a good budget compared to dealing with endless egos. Might aswell ask the question as someone like Newcastle probably will in two years time.

If Leicester are losing to Southampton at home that suggests Rodgers will be leaving them shortly and I'd be o.k with him aswell. Fizzling out at Leicester but they've still finished 5th, 5th and 8th under him with an FA cup and european SF thrown in so pretty decent body of work for team that was 13th in prem when he took over.

I think he would jump at the chance, he's not getting another massive club until he kind of proves he has it/still has it. If he couldn't get the Utd job after all that noise and us not really being very good he's got no chance of getting better at the moment.

You're a big club, have a really talented team, spend money and best of all it's a premiere league club so he will have all the eyes on him which is what he wants/needs so he doesn't fade away into mediocrity.

He could really do something there and it looks like a great fit all round. It's no brainer really as even if he turns out to not be elite everybody knows he's a very good manager and still relatively young.

 

[Someone]

I wonder why most English players avoid going for coaching jobs first with a top manager to learn instead of becoming managers right away.

Lampard would've been welcomed to coach at Chelsea for example, and working with someone like Tuchel would've been great for him. Feels like in 2 years Gerrard, Lampard, and Rooney will be all pundits.

 

[No Love]

If this keeps up, DJs in the Birmingham area will need to invest in headgear pretty sharpish.