HandsomeHead
Well-Known Member
That’s it - the owners will want to see progress. They’re ambitious. They’ve spent a lot of money and Villa aren’t buying guys like Coutinho just to cement mid table finishes.It took him 3 seasons to win the league here. He was never turning things around in less than 1 there, but EPL has very little patience for building something
I imagine the set of objectives Gerrard would have been given when he arrived in October was: last season - get them into the top half of the table; this season - have them challenge for a European place; next season - have them challenge for a CL place.
So far, he’s falling short. If he doesn’t have them on track for objective no.2 by the end of the year, that could easily be it for him.