Former Rangers and Aston Villa manager Steven Gerrard frontrunner for Leeds United job
Former Rangers and Aston Villa boss Steven Gerrard is reportedly a frontrunner to take over at Leeds United after Sam Allardyce’s exit.
According to the Times [2 June], Angus Kinnear is expected to lead the chase for appointing a new head coach after Victor Orta was shown the door in the past few weeks.
Gerrard, who has not been in a job since Villa sacked him, has a career win rate of 62 per cent – with his best performance at Ibrox for the 55-time SPFL champions.
Risk?
Had Gerrard been moving straight from Rangers to Leeds, most fans would’ve been on-board with this appointment.
His time in Scotland cemented him as one of the hottest up and coming managers as he managed to end Celtic’s dominance there.
He guided a troubled Rangers side that was in the bottom tier not too long ago, to an unbeaten league-winning season in Scotland.
Along with that, he got them to play some exciting football with overlapping full-backs and fluid attacking sequences.
However, when the spotlight was on him at Aston Villa, he struggled at a team that finished in the European places for the first time in years.
Leeds may be an easier job as they’ll be favourites for most games just like Rangers were but it’s still not the best appointment possible and the Whites need to expand their search beyond UK-based managers.
