Paul McGrath tells Steven Gerrard to get Tyrone Mings back in the Aston Villa team
Aston Villa legend Paul McGrath has told Steven Gerrard to put Tyrone Mings back in the team despite their apparent feud.
Mings was stripped of the captaincy in the summer and dropped from the starting line-up for the opening Premier League game of the season, where Villa were soundly beaten 2-0 by newly promoted Bournemouth.
Gerrard said after the game that he was dropped partly due to his reaction to losing the captaincy and said he would only get back in the team when he got back to his best, but McGrath took to Twitter to have his say on the matter.
“Tyrone Mings is good enough for Aston Villa, in my opinion he ticks all the right boxes,” he said.
“So how do you lose the armband and your place in seconds? You don’t so who said what to who? No one cares get him in the team. Respect.”
Sorry Paul
McGrath is a God at Villa Park, but unfortunately on this occasion he’s wrong because the manager has to have the final say.
Mings has been a good servant for the club but the club want to improve and he is a player who can clearly be improved upon according to Gerrard, which is what matters most right now.
Whether the reason for the fall out is personal or purely professional is realistically irrelevant, because the England international isn’t being completely alienated.
Gerrard has made it clear what the player must do to get back in the side, and it’s up to Mings if he would rather sulk on the sidelines or sit up and work hard to convince the manager he was wrong.
He shouldn’t be playing just because he’s Mings and with Diego Carlos’ arrival this summer, he now must prove himself as worthy which can only be a good thing.
In other Aston Villa news, Ian Wright was “very, very concerned” by the defeat to Bournemouth