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The Telegraph reveals Aston Villa’s compensation package for Gerrard and five coaches

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Aston Villa will be able to pick up Steven Gerrard and a five man backroom staff for just £3m.

Permission was granted tonight for Villa to speak to the former Liverpool skipper with the appointment now appearing to be just a matter of timing with Villa’s social media team hard at work.

Coaches Michael Beale, Gary McAllister, Tom Culshaw and Jordan Milsom are included in the job lot from Ibrox.

Having Gerrard under contract until 2024 was viewed as some sort of security for the Ibrox side but it seems that the compensation package is the same as the transfer fee paid last year for Cedric Itten.

The Telegraph reports:

It is understood Villa have paid around £3 million to ‘sign’ Gerrard and his team, with the appointment driven by chief executive Christian Purslow and fully approved by owners Nassef Sawiris and Wes Edens, plus sporting director Johan Lange.

Villa are currently 16th in the Premier League after five successive defeats, which spelled the end of Smith’s tenure on Sunday.

Gerrard’s first game will be Brighton at home on Saturday week. He is also set for an emotional return to Liverpool, the club where he made over 500 appearances, on Saturday December 11

Derek McInnes, Robbie Neilson, Alex Rae, Nuno Espirito Santo and Shelley Kerr are among the early favourites to replace Gerrard with Graeme Murty expected to take training on Monday ahead of a permanent appointment being made.

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  • Pan says:

    Mr Murty!
    What the hell are you doing still associated with that lot?
    Do you realise the damage you have done yourself?

  • Chris says:

    Defoe is a possibility as there’s no compensation to pay cheap as chips, but something doesn’t feel right ??HH

  • Peter Cassidy says:

    Have not stopped laughing not slippy anymore just mr happy the bigots going ape $hit on the bigot blogs lovely .

  • Exiled in Ard Mhaca says:

    To quote REM ” Its the end of the world as we know and I feel fine”. Damn right I do.

  • Robert Downey says:

    That’s about right, £3m.
    I see some ex Sevco players saying it should be more in line with the compo got for BR.
    What you have to remember is BR was a lot more experienced and a lot more successful.
    1 trophy from 9 is not a good success rate.
    You get what you pay for these days.

  • Tommy McQuillan says:

    He’ll get found out down there for being the numpty he really is. It has to be said he has no pedigree as a manager and Aston Villa must be looking forward to life in the Championship because that’s where they’re going. They’ll probably be the first club relegated and you just know the players will be thrown under the bus the second things start to go wrong. He never won a league Celtic threw it away and he’s a charlatan, posing as a manager when he hasn’t a clue. I’ll give him till the end of the season and he’ll be sacked, I’m extremely confident of that.

  • Jim kearney says:

    Litterally same as Brendan Rogers 30 pieces of silver

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