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

good luck ged. feel a bit sorry for him. he should never have been appointed villa manager in my opinion.

as i've already said its horse's for course's and houllier is a completely wrong fit for villa. you really have no idea what your talking about. i said MAYBE albrighton wasn't ready under o'neill, i don't know maybe he was and o'neill just didn't like him. so do you think houllier did a good job at villa? better than o'neill? now im just talking about villa not what houllier has done at lfc or in france just villa. i hope houllier comes back to the PL and again you'll see how innately average the man is in the PL.

So Albrighton wasnt ready with 5 days to go before last season started? Thats when O'Neil walked out.

Given time I think Houllier would have consistantly got Villa into the top six and done well in cup competions. All young home grown players that have played under Houllier having nothing but praise for him. You wouldnt know this though as you've only started following the club since 2005 no doubt.

houllier had a major effect on gerrard and carras careers lets not forget

Carragher was going nowhere until Houllier sorted his discipline out and focused him on his football.

Some people are to ignorant to acknowledge this other things he did for the club.

well i was only 15 in 2005 i didn't really follow football until i was 13/14 so i couldn't tell you much about houllier's reign at lfc but wasn't he at home ill while we we're winning the 6 trophies in a year? (i think it was 6). again don't care what he did for liverpool that was years and years ago i care about now, and now houllier did an awful job at villa and would of continued to do an awful for as long as he was there. and top 6 consistently you're on crack. who are villa replacing because man utd, chelsea, arsenal, man city, spurs and liverpool are all much, much better teams. and houllier didn't give albrighton his big break kevin macdonald did

Excellent here we go again.

Your talking about things you have no idea about.

Just think if we'd lost to Chelsea in the semi final that year you'd probably be following them now.

no my whole family are liverpool fan's and you didn't answer my question
was houllier ill when we were winning those trophies or not? and i have never said he did a bad job at us i have been talking about villa but your obsessed with the past

Just because Hodgson overachieved massively at Fulham that doesn't mean that Hughes hasn't - with the players at his disposal he clearly has - just like Chris Coleman, who was forced to sell all his best players and got sacked when results inevitably went downhill subsequently

I think people on this site really need to grow up

Are we really inapable of recognising Hughes as a good (not great by any means but good)manager just because he played for man utd

If so it's absolutely pathetic...

Whats Hughes playing with Utd got anything to do with it? You brought that up. If your dig is aimed at me all I stated was that Hughes do welling because of the foundations that Hodgson laid.

Rather ranting and raving maybe you'd be better reading posts a little more carefully.