Aston Villa expected to appoint Gerrard as new boss soon

BIRMINGHAM − Premier League club Aston Villa is confident that they will be able to appoint Rangers’ Steven Gerrard as their new manager in the coming days.

Ever since Dean Smith was sacked last Sunday, the Scottish premiership club boss has been the number one target for owners Nassef Sawiris and Wes Edens and chief executive Christian Purslow.

According to the Daily Mail, once Steven and Aston Villa are granted permission to communicate directly, negotiations over salary and length of contract is expected to proceed smoothly after Rangers is compensated £2.5 mil (RM13.96 mil) for the former Liverpool and England captain.

Villa players are ready to be trained next week by the 41-year-old ex-midfielder ahead of their Premier League meeting with Brighton on November 20.

It is widely expected that Steven will end his three-and-a-half-year reign at Glasgow in the next 48 hours and that his key allies at Ibrox − assistants Tommy Culshaw and Gary McAllister, first-team coach Michael Beale and head of performance Jordan Milsom would follow him. – Agencies, November 11, 2021