Aston Villa have rubbished reports of manager Steven Gerrard being sacked today.

Gerrard is under serious pressure at Villa Park following a miserable start to the season which has seen his side collect just nine points from their opening 10 games.

Villa communications director Tommy Jordan took to Twitter on Monday night to rubbish claims that Gerrard has already been dismissed by the club, branding the reports "complete lies".

Jordan posted: "How many times can you publish complete lies before people unfollow the account? Not sure why anyone actually follows this account. If you do, you shouldn't."

Villa are in next in action on Thursday night, when they go away to Marco Silva's Fulham, before Brentford make the trip to the West Midlands on Sunday.