Well, we all knew it was coming, didn’t we? and it was only a matter of when.
Apparently Nas Sawaris was fuming when Luiz got his red card and stormed out of the directors box, with Purslow in hot pursuit. Well, I might have made the last bit up, but I just have this mental picture of Waylon Smithers fawning around Mr Burns from the Simpsons.
Whatever, somebody hasn’t messed about and to be honest I’m very surprised it’s happened so quickly after the game.
Where does this leave Purslow, I wonder?
No doubt Gerrard will walk away with a big fat payoff, which is a bit of a coincidence as I was just reading about how Liz Truss will get a lifelong yearly payment of £115,000 and a pension of up to 10% after being in power for 44 days.
How can such absolute failure justify such crazy amounts of money? You couldn’t make it up.
But it is what it is.
And so I find myself wondering who’s going to be next to manage our glorious club?
Did Sawaris have a rush of blood in sacking Gerrard, or are the stories regarding the club sounding out managers already, actually true.
I really hope it’s the latter and we have someone coming in promptly.
The thought of McAllister being a temporary coach isn’t something I want to see because I’ve never rated him ever since he was Houlliers frontman.
And then there’s the matter of the myriad of coaches that we seem to have built up. Do any of those deserve to stay?
My money says we need a total clearout, including Purslow too, because things plainly aren’t working.
There’s a pall over Aston Villa now and I genuinely wonder if changing the manager and maybe another one or two coaches would be enough to remove it.
And then, we need a renewed aim of where we want to be, to try and kickstart that feelgood factor that existed not so long ago.
But at the same time I worry about what if this next manager can’t get it right either?
Where would that leave us as a club? Would our owners continue pouring money in?
You’d have to expect that even they would have enough.
But that’s for the future.
So, basically, I’m happy, but worried at the same time .
UTV!
Sundays match should be very interesting, will the players…
Put their bodies on the line?
Find a team mate with a pass?
Run for 90 minutes?
Challenge for every ball?
(They didn’t against Fulham that’s for sure)
I’d add: Stay on their feet.
Especially Watkins; he’s still slipping over or diving at every challenge and staring at the ref to award him a free-kick or penalty, rather than getting up and retreiving the posession that he’s just given away.
After the match comments from Somerbee was that players were not playing for Gerrard, I was thinking that over the last few games we had, even Lee Hendry ex Villa player said as much. We have had an upset in the club and it was not repaired by Gerrard he had to go ..
It seems clear that Watkins isn’t enjoying his football – where has his smile gone?
Gerrard was pretty poor tactically and strategically but his weakest attribute, which in my view is the most important in a football manager, is man management. He hasn’t got a clue.
We came back from pre-season looking in decent shape and a happy looking team (with all the caveats attaching to pre-season). What did Gerrard do – publicly threw Mings under the bus and appointed McGinn as captain which I suspect completely unsettled the dressing room. He then proceeded to ignore Chambers and Archer, both of whom had impressed in pre-season.
His continual public undermining of the side when he should have been looking very closely at himself added fuel to an unhappy fire by now raging in the dressing room.
He should have gone weeks ago.
And don’t get me started on Purslow – if NSWE have anything about them he should be next through the door.
Rant over.
Apparently we made Premier League history yesterday – the first team to EVER …
Concede a penalty
Score an Own Goal
&
Have a player sent off.
Way to go Stevie.
Reminds me of the Mrs Lincoln gag.
“Well – apart from that Mr Gerrard – how did you enjoy the game?”
Okay I’m angry now. Everywhere in the media, it’s all about Gerrard rather than Aston Villa and the rubbish he’s produced. The fawning is nauseating. Poor Steven…
Bum Bum – it’s always been about Gerrard, never about Villa. We’re bigger than Gerrard whatever he and his acolytes might think.
He could have been manager for the next two years and he still wouldn’t have a clue what he’s doing and we would be in L1.
Let’s see what happens over the next couple of months.
We need a bigger trophy case then ?
Lol
Bill it somehow seems the right note for the SG era end on.
Looks like we can rule out Poch, Tuchel and Frank.
Such a sorry state of affairs.
How to solve a problem like Villa.
I’m a bit concerned I must admit about who’s next in the hot seat.
Still chuffed he’s gone. A win for us against Brentford. There’s a good team in there somewhere trying to get out! I’m sure a cloud will have been removed from Villa Park.
It’s a bit sickening the support and sympathy Gerrard is getting in the media.
https://www.90min.com/posts/steven-gerrard-what-went-wrong-aston-villa
(a good read imo)
Pretty good summing up RSS – thanks for the link.
The latest Holy Trinity show (YouTube) is worth a watch. Pete absolutely rips into Gerrard and Purslow. Although it’s meant to be a show about the Fulham debacle, he doesn’t mention the game once. Classic.
He’s definitely not Purlow’s biggest fan (-:
I see Nuno Santo’s name isn’t on the list – a little surprised by that.
I think he’s a good manager as he showed at Wolves.
A couple of years ago I thought the same thing; but during his final season at Wolves he seemed as lost & short of ideas as DS and SG in their bleaker periods. As for what happened to him at Spuds…
Maybe with the right backing (i.e. not limited to players from one particular agent- ) he could still get his mojo back.
Simeone? Ready to try his hand in the EPL?
Diego Simeone yes please.
He’s like the Darth Vader of football but I love how he ruffles the big boys feathers.
Now that would be intersting.
Probably brief, but interesting.
I’ve just read in The Guardian that Luiz has had his red card rescinded. Is this true???
Yep – it’s on the OS.
So shouldn’t Mitrovitch be charged with simulation because it was his Oscar performance that swayed the referee. Bamford all over again.
Yes. Michael Oliver is an idiot. He reviewed the incident on the monitor because he was dealing with something else and it happened behind him. He should know that Mitrovic has been done for simulation before and he needed to be sure he saw the butt not the B grade acting. There is no contact.
Now Mitrovic should serve the 3 match ban. It is a misconduct offence of the worst sort because it caused an unjustified dismissal, possibly affected the result and possibly cost a man his job.
That was all going swimmingly OLL until the “cost a man his job” bit
Mitrović, you’re a f&@king Villa legend mate.
There cheers for Aleksandar
Hip Hip
Double jeopardy as well with Mitrovitch winning an extremely harsh penalty decision.
What exactly was Cash supposed to do in the circumstances?
At last something has gone right for Villa, with Luiz’ red card rescinded. According to Ashley Preece the red card was the moment NS left the corporate box in fury and decided to sack Gerrard.
Gerrard sacked and Luiz not facing a 3 month ban. Many of us were fearful that we would scrape a draw and extend Gerrard’s reign.
I’m not normally cruel but Gerrard having to catch the team bus home from London after being sacked sums up the dysfunction that now rules at our club. I wonder if Mings offered to throw GS under the bus to put him out of his misery!
Hopefully Purslow to follow soon out the door.
So poor old multimillionaire SG (net worth $90 Million) couldn’t afford a hotel for the night???
Or a taxi? Lol!!!!
There’s no way he’d have travelled back on the bus as imagine how embarrassing that would have been?
And then imagine half of the team wanting to knock his block off or at least call him all sorts.
Either a hotel, or more likely a limo to rush him back to Bodymoor so he could collect his kit and clear off sharpish.
Glad to see Luiz’ card rescinded too, as it was never a red imo.
And yes, retrograde punishment should be introduced.
Yes just read it and good news, I looked and looked at that incident and couldn’t see contact to the head, that player should now gain a yellow for rolling around and screaming blue murder.
I want to hear the Villa faithful lift the roof off VP on Sunday. The Idiot has left the building but the mighty Villa roll on.
I’d love the squad to be deafened by our support. I wish I was going…Let any new prospective Manager know just how great our club is and we need to reclaim our place at the top table (and I don’t mean the vile proposed European Super League).
COME ON VILLA!!!!!!!!!
COME ON THE LADS..
Ruben Amorim. Is he our next manager according to the bookies? It would be another experiment almost exactly the same as Gerrard. A young manager from a league not anywhere near the same level as the premier league! And just like Slippy G, he probably can’t speak English.
Pochettino is the perfect choice. He has to consider that he has been sacked by Spurs and PSG so if we can’t tempt him with the potential of our owners wealth plus a 50,000 soon to be stadium, then maybe we will have to accept mediocrity at best.
It seems I might have been wrong.
The Telegraph have reported that Gerrard was already on the bus when he got the phone call, which really surprises me;
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2022/10/20/steven-gerrard-aston-villa-manager-danger-sack-fulham-loss/
That’s not good really, as the players would probably have known minutes after.
How do you think it went, Badger? Like this?
“Hi Steve, it’s Christian. Is the bus on the motorway?”
“Yes.”
“Ask the driver to drop you at the next Services.”
Holte
I would place a strong bet that our owners have already tried sounding Pochettino out. It appears he is not interested.
The beauty with football is that every manager fails in the modern era. I think the only two ever to get out of the Premier League in one piece were Ferguson and Wenger. So we know whoever we appoint is most certainly going to fail!
But occasionally along comes a bright new manager who surpasses all expectations. Currently Potter.
My question is how much do we know about Amorim. The basic facts are that he is 37 years old and has won one trophy with Sparta Prague and 4 with Sporting Lisbon. Regardless of not being in the Premier League these trophies are no mean feat.
Regarding having a manager with Premier experience is not the golden path to success. Potter came from Sweden and I don’t know where Pochettino came from but I know he could not speak English.
Our last appointment was made by Purslow without due diligence. He wanted his mate Gerrard and our owners trusted him. They will not make that mistake again. Due diligence would have shown Beale as having the technical awareness, whilst Gerrard was the figure head.
What I do know is NSWE will be making this appointment. It’s there money. And further, Purslow will be very lucky to remain in post.
Like yourself Holte, we want the best for Villa with the next appointment. Who it will be I just don’t know.
Amorim will certainly be able to speak Portuguese and Spanish, so that’s half the team addressed in their own language!
And I always thought the bookies were nearly always in the know
Next Permanent Liverpool Manager
Steven Gerrard
7/4
Pep Lijnders
2/1
Ange Postecoglou
9/2
Thomas Tuchel
11/2
Julian Nagelsmann
10/1
Xabi Alonso
10/1
Diego Simeone
20/1
James Milner
25/1
The media love in with Gerrard is sickening and now the bookies seem to have bought into the bug!
As I said, during that last 12 months it’s been all about Gerrard and very little about Villa and I think the fans became sick of it on the back of some of the worst most boring football I have witnessed at Villa in the last 60 odd years.
And the Mick Beale thing may be true but if I recall correctly we only won something like two of our last eleven games when Beale was still at the club. Had their been a fall out which encouraged Beale’s departure?
Jose cut his teeth in the Portuguese league and from what i recall, i think he won a trophy or two! I’ve got a good feeling about this guy…What an opportunity. Whoever comes in, i sincerely hope the adopt Brentford’s ‘No Dickheads’ policy! Utterly brilliant!!!!
Ha 🙂
That policy obviously wasn’t in place before we gave Gerrard a job.
Or Purslow, come to think of it.
I don’t know about Amorim, but any mention of the Portugese league concerns me, even though Maureen did well there.
It smacks of the Scottish leagues and I just don’t see us going for him.
I still think we won’t get anyone in before the WC window has finished, personally.
This will be a really well considered appointment.
And probably Purslow’s last chance to get it right.
What Danks can do, I really don’t know.
I’m off to look at his previous experience.
I’m a bit concerned about this guy as well.
It’s fine winning things in Portugal, but it does smack a bit of Scotland – two big clubs that really don’t do much in Europe even though the poor nature of their league means that they’re almost guaranteed a strt in Euro competitions every season. And as for paying £25m+ just to get him?
I also remember Nuno (who I quite admire all-around) made a big splash in his first year in the EPL with Wolves, but then ran out of ideas – and Portugese players to bring in.
With all of Villa’s top targets seeming to not want to try and build anything on a team currently in a relegation battle, no matter how much money the owners offer, I’m starting to think that we’ll end up with either Dyche, or Benitez….