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Steven Gerrard has opened up about his sacking from Aston Villa , admitting that he quickly lost the dressing room before being relieved of his duties.

A 3-0 defeat to Fulham in October 2022 proved to be the final straw for co-owner Nassef Sawiris , who stormed out of Craven Cottage, clearly convinced that it was time to make a major change.

At the time of Gerrard’s dismissal, the average tenure of a Premier League manager stood at two years and four days — more than double the length of Gerrard’s spell at Villa Park.

Speaking on the Rio Ferdinand Presents podcast, Gerrard said: "The Villa thing was really tough at the end because the first six months of Villa, I felt like we had control of it, and we had Villa where maybe we should have had them.

"I think the stats,

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