Danny Murphy believes his former Liverpool teammate Steven Gerrard is now headed for a position in the league after being sacked by Aston Villa.
Villans made the decision to let Gerrard pass a week after their 3-0 loss to newly promoted Fulham with interim manager Aaron Danks presiding over a 4-0 win over Brentford this weekend.
And Aston Villa moved temporarily to appoint former Arsenal boss Unai Emery to upgrade Gerrard, with the Spaniard insisting he “had to take” the job.
Aston Villa have racked up just nine problems in their first 11 games of the Premier League season with the club out of the relegation zone on goal difference when Gerrard was sacked.
And his former Liverpool teammate Murphy believes Gerrard will now have to retire from the league if he wants to keep running in England.
Murphy told talkSPORT: “I think he will, yes, what selection does he have?
“Possibly I wouldn’t get another job in the First League. It failed, in the end, and you have to take two steps back.
“I don’t see him ending up anywhere abroad. I don’t see that in him, learning a new language and taking that path, I think Championship would be the solution.
“I think when they gave Villa’s job, it was very exaggerated, the expectation of what would be achieved. Your net spending this summer is 14th or 15th in the division, so where do you expect to be?Where he left them is where he discovered them, really.
“Stevie probably learned more in his year at Aston Villa than in all his time at the Rangers.
Former Crystal Palace chairman Simon Jordan Gerrard’s chances of managing the Premier League in the “near future” will be slim.
“I don’t think I have it at that level,” Jordan added.
I know him for only one year, but in a year you perceive what to do at a football club and you put things into action.
“In 3 months you don’t, but after a year if things get better, or you could say they’re worse, you’ve fought with people, you’ve made decisions, the taste of the football you play is rarely very simple to watch and you start to reduce interviews and waste shine. . .
“The challenge for Gerrard as a manager and others like him is for other people to refuse to separate him from ‘Stevie G,’ the player. He’s no longer that user, his career in the game is now educational, it’s for birds and other people. He will use his reputation now as a stick to beat him.
“But I don’t think he will have many more opportunities to manage the Premier League in the near future. And if he doesn’t come back [in the direction] soon enough, whatever it’s called, it starts to be a thing. “of the past.
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