KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum Gerard Houllier steps down as manager of villa

With all respect to Hughes it was actually Hodgson who laid the foundations for him to have the season he did.

That's a bit harsh

I too tired of Houllier's lame excuses at the end of his reign, much as I did at the end of Rafa's, but like the Spaniard Houllier always had Liverpool's best interests at heart

Also he was a genuinely nice guy and I for one didn't understand why he even sought the job at Villa - given his health

villa are nowhere near the club of lfc they need someone like martin o'neill they need a manager made for the PL witch houllier isn't. its a case of horse's for course's and a manager like hughes, coyle or moyes would do a much better job then houllier at villa. nothing against houllier he seems a nice enough man but he isn't and never was the right man for villa. and you comparing job at lfc to the job at villa shows how little you really know about football. maybe you should stop looking at lfc past glories for a second and watch a game of football

hughes had to remind that team how to play football and not just defend their 18 yard box

Ive forgotten more about football than you'll ever know. Villa have done nothing when you consider the size of the club with every manager they had recently and they all been um British including Martin O'Neil. If your two ignorant to see what Houllier can bring to a club with his methods than your sadly at a loss.

Ask Fulham fans if they'd have him back. Failing that try asking West Brom fans if they like Hodgson.

Again your lack of knowledge lest you down and is making you look foolish once more.

why would fulham fans want him back? they finished 8th last season playing nice football

Are you reall this stupid or you putting it on?

Hodgson joined the club when they where more or less down but some how managed to keep them up with the odds stacked hugely against the club. He turned Zamora in to an England international and took the club to its 1st European cup final. Thats why Fulham fans would want him back.

Dont be taken in by Hughes and this so called attractive football your banging on about. Wales had to endure his 451 footbal for years and failed to make a major championship with some of the most talented players Wales has ever had at one time.

maybe you've forgot more about football of the last century than i'll ever know. but football that happening now, no. where were villa finishing under o'neill? and where have they been all this season under houllier? but yeah im sure houllier is a better manager for villa than o'neill. all houllier did at villa is fall out with players for no reason make them train with the reserves because he is silly old man. he did an awful job at villa and theres not a single villa unhappy that he has left. he like you couldn't be more out of touch with today's football

i said nice football, witch fulham do play now. and that hodgson argument is just a non starter, hodgson did a brilliant job at fulham and he looks well on his way to doing another brilliant job at west brom. but that doesn't mean fulham fans would have him back. finishing 8th is a very, very good season for fulham and they are playing better football so why would want to change manager? would you have rafa back? he made us into the number 1 ranked team in europe, so by you thinking we should get rafa back, he brought us torres, alonso, reina, mascherano players none of us had ever really heard of and turned us into a world-class team. so let's get rafa back