Doing extremely well so far, currently holding Chelsea at half time. Facing the top 3 teams within his first 7 games too this will always be the highest proportion of difficult games he’ll face in a league.
Well, this aged poorly.
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Just fucking sign him back up.
I hope he doesn’t get the Anfield job unless he properly proves himself first. Got a long way to go from where he is currently at with Villa before he deserves that, imho. I think he’d really need to first do well there - get them into europe next season and then do on another run the season after before ideally doing even better at another club for 2-5 years before he should be considered in the mix.
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I think he probably needs to win a trophy but I don’t see the need for him to move on from Villa. 3-4 years at Villa, get them Europa league consistently and a few domestic trophies and that will be him proved.
But unless things go drastically wrong he will probably be our next manager. I would live that but I also echo your sentiments, he does need to do something in the PL first
Before Jurgen landed it is likely we would have taken Stevie in a heartbeat. Even as player/manager considering the dross we had to endure with some of the management appointments before… A sort of ‘Nothing could be worse than them’ philosophy. However, whether we realise it or not, Jurgen has not only coached the players at his disposal to achieve more, but he has also coached us as fans in understanding the finer points of what makes a good manager great.
Watching Jurgen in action whether it be in conducting interviews or as the gurning fanatic running up and down the touchline demanding more from the players for the sake of the club and its fans… He has epitomised what LFC is, and has always been about since the days of Bill Shankly…
These are big shoes to fill when he eventually meanders off into the sunset… I for one hope Stevie becomes the whole package beyond his past efforts for the club, and our success continues unabated.
I would imagine, as of now, Jürgen would advise HWG to go with either of the two next best German coaches or his Dutch mate and let the low-hanging Scouse fruit ripen a bit longer.
Stevie Slip, nothing to forgive, just something that happened. Still, some nice yin/yang and karma possibilities for today. Go Stevie! Go Villa!
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For the umpteenth time…
Everyone goes on about the slip but that isn’t what cost us the title that year. It was wrong refereeing decisions in two consecutive games over Christmas: goal disallowed at Man City, which was never offside, and Eto’o not being sent off at Stamford Bridge
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Or the 50 goals we allowed. No, I get it. I’m sure Gerrard still thinks about it, though. But my larger point is this. Go Stevie! Go Villa! Go Coutinho!
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I’ll put it this way, if about 16 of the other sides did what Villa did today, 92 points would be more than enough.
They aren’t tired because no one does, play against a team who bothers every week like we have to 90% of the time and they’d be lucky to get 80
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Yeah , more teams do a Villa or a west ham as opposed to bending over the last 4 years , we would have won 2 more leagues easy.
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The only reason why they stood a chance against City was the Gerrard factor and the madness of matchday 38.
Not rating the Villa squad. Stevie has work to do or he might get sacked next season.
West Ham, Palace and Southampton took points of City. All with a similar tactical approach but they also had to put in a lot physicality and intensity.
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Don’t think he’s in trouble unless he hasn’t improved on position/points total this time next year, or obviously they find themselves in the bottom 3 at some point.
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He has a lot of money to work with and ambitious owners. Don’t think he will have a crazy amount of time.
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Agreed. I have zero idea where this plucky underdog nonsense is coming from, Villa have a talented squad and Steve underachieved.
Also, Villa owners sign Steve’s paychecks, not FSG, so not sure why so many apologists. I saw the usual “savants” in the post match thread wagging their fingers, in their usual elitist way, at those being critical of Steve.
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I think it’s more that he’s only been in the job for half a season, hasn’t had a pre-season with his players, hasn’t made any signings other that Coutinho so it isn’t really his team yet and it’s really premature to start writing him off as a failure.
He’s certainly not above criticism either. But perhaps at least give him a full season before deciding he’s a shit manager.
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Yeah I don’t think he’s a shit manager but I also think he’s a bit overrated.
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