'I don’t see him ending up anywhere abroad. I don’t see that in him, learning a new language and going down that route, I think Championship would be the way.'
after their 3-0 loss to newly-promoted Fulham with caretaker manager Aaron Danks presiding over a 4-0 win against Brentford at the weekend.
And his former Liverpool team-mate Murphy thinks Gerrard will now have to drop down to the Championship if he wants to carry on working in England.“He’s not going to get another Premier League job. He has failed, ultimately, and you have to take two steps back sometimes. “I do think that when he got the Villa job that it was very overtop, the expectation of what was going to be achieved. Their net spend this summer was 14th or 15th in the division, so where do you expect to be? Where he left them is where he found them, really.
Ex-Crystal Palace chairman Simon Jordan agrees that Gerrard’s opportunities to manage in the Premier League in the “near future” will be few and far between.“He has ample time at Aston Villa. I know it was only a year, but in a year you get to understand what needs doing at a football club and put things into action.