Aston Villa have denied rumours that Steven Gerrard has been sacked.
On Monday night Twitter was overloaded with claims that the former Liverpool captain had been sacked alongwith some tall tales of a night out being enjoyed in his home city.
Football Insider ran with the story of the sacking which prompted Villa’s PR Manager Thomas Jordan, formerly of the Evening Times and Sunday Post to take to Twitter to claim that their story was lies.
How many times can you publish complete lies before people unfollow the account? Not sure why anyone actually follows this account. If you do, you shouldn’t. https://t.co/ud2xAs47Y5
— Tommy Jordan (@tommyjordanav) October 17, 2022
Unconfirmed reports tonight suggest that Aston Villa have today parted company with Steven Gerrard. Thought the performance was good yesterday but results just haven’t gone their way at all. The pressure at a club like Aston Villa is always on and it just wasn’t working #AVFC
— Josh Bunting (@Buntingfootball) October 17, 2022
Aston Villa would be ‘perfect’ for Mauricio Pochettino after being linked with Steven Gerrard’s job #AVFC https://t.co/UpdqQjQtze
— talkSPORT (@talkSPORT) October 17, 2022
Mauricio Pochettino is the name most linked with taking over from Gerrard but it looks like an act of wishful thinking from Villa fans that the former PSG boss would join a club more used to relegation battles than Champions League nights.
Villa’s performances have been as dismal and uninspiring as their manager’s media appearances with Gerrard constantly giving off the vibe that he is too good for the job and is uncomfortable working with players not as wonderful as he is.
The army of former Liverpool players now in the media have sprung to his defence but fifth bottom place with nine points from 10 matches confirms that Villa are in for a season long battle.
Losing Michael Beale to QPR took away the ‘brains’ of the management team with Gary McAllister looking as hopeless as Gerrard as they sit on the bench with two wins and three draws this season.
P45 BOOM!