Former Aston Villa star Paul Merson would be happy with Steven Gerrard or Frank Lampard taking the manager's job.
Dean Smith was fired this week - the fifth managerial casualty of the Premier League season - after Villa suffered a fifth consecutive defeat at Southampton last Friday.
The club will now look for a replacement with Rangers boss Gerrard the bookmakers' favourite and former Chelsea manager Lampard also among the frontrunners.
"It's going to be hard to prise Steven Gerrard away, he's managing a massive club in Glasgow Rangers," Merson told Sky Sports.
"He's got them buzzing again; he stopped Celtic winning 10 in a row, they are in the Europa League, and they've got a chance of winning the Scottish Premiership.
"Everyone wants to manage in the Premier League. That is no disrespect to the Scottish Premiership. Rangers and Celtic are bigger clubs than probably half of the teams in the Premier League.
"But it's the Premier League, and when you start out managing, I'm sure in the back of people's minds if you could get a job like Aston Villa - wow."
On Lampard, Merson added: "He's managed Chelsea, where he did a great job in steadying the ship at the time.
"If you look at all the kids who have come through at Chelsea since, and then look at Aston Villa's academy, it's very good as well.
"On Friday night, Dean Smith had five or six players from the academy in the squad for what was his final game. I would like to see a Frank Lampard or Steven Gerrard get the job."
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