Never piss off Pongo, Stevie - he’s from.Birmingham. 
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Pongo?
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Gerrard has been sacked.
Not that surprising considering Villas performances.
Where are you hearing this?
Nothing on Beeb or SlySports
My brother is a Villa fan. He usually lets us know about signings before they are confirmed.
Loads of shit on twitter about him being out pissed in a pub but nothing concrete.
Aston Villa are interested in former Tottenham and Paris St-Germain manager Mauricio Pochettino as a possible replacement for Steven Gerrard. (Telegraph - subscription required)
Some Danish journo claiming on Twitter that Gerard has been sacked and that Pochettino has already agreed to take over.
This:
If he has lost the Villa job, and it only seems a matter of time, his chances of becoming manager at LFC at some point in the future look to have become almost nil.
It’s a shame in a way, as he’ll forever be a legend, but it always seemed like a romantic dream rather than a realistic option. Somehow I can imagine Alonso doing better as a trainer, but he might be too nice to succeed at the top level.
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I always wondered how much of his managerial performance was down to Stevie and how much Beale.
Question still remains unanswered in my opinion but of greater importance now they have separate paths.
Captain hindsight here, but maybe for the longer-term benefit to his prowess as an up-and-coming manager, it would have been wiser to watch and learn from Jurgen at LFC…
We will never know now eh
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Good thing is it’s still early in the season and he did not left Villa on a relegation spot.
Probably still three or four PL teams that would offer him a job but those are hotseats.
Time to go abroad but the language barrier makes that really difficult.
Well this is very unwelcome news. Entirely expected, but unwelcome all the same.
Any Red who says they wouldn’t have enjoyed Stevie one day taking the helm is lying.
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Maybe he’ll take over from Southgate after the WC 
I’m not lying. I would only have enjoyed it if he was a dead cert for success. I didn’t get to see the King’s first spell in charge, let alone his playing career, so the main memories I have of him are rather tainted, sadly.
He could do without that.
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He was never going to get much time at this specific club. That’s why I thought that his choice of moving there was an uninspired one. Villa sack their managers very soon, that’s what they do.
As a young and upcoming manager, you avoid that type of job, that is all. Compare this with Klopp’s prudent career path, and you understand very quickly that Gerrard was blighted by the money and the spotlights of the PL, far too soon as was good for him.
Difficult to say where his career goes from there. Probably downwards, at a lesser club. But he’d be well-inspired to chose his next job very, very carefully this time. Maybe, if he gets that opportunity, take over a club in the Championship with a realistic chance to fight it out for a promotion spot, with owners ready to give him time to build a genuine project. I can’t see him taking over a club abroad.
Chances are also that he might ditch the manager career for good, we’ll see. In any case, he still can earn money by imitating Carra and playing pundit. A far easier role: talking shit and earning good money for it.
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He’s not actually confirmed as sacked is he?!
Villa have actually been pretty stable with their managers over the last few years. Gerrard is their 3rd in 5 years (Smith and Bruce before him, each had 2 seasons).
I don’t entirely agree that it was the job to avoid, he did it at Glasgow, and took the chance when it came - he could have gone to a lesser club and done better or worst, but he had to take the job when it came I think.
Gerrard is a footballing hero of mine - I have no problems with him remaining as that, and not becoming a failed Liverpool manager. Would love him to get the chance to lift the PL as the Liverpool manager, but honestly, I don’t think he’s got that in him.
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Of course, I should have been clearer.
There were a million hurdles for him to get over before the job would have been his…I certainly wasn’t saying it was his by right.
Fair point…it ain’t official.
Once those drums start beating but…fucking hyenas…
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