Sad way to see him end his career struggling to make the team for the LA Galaxy and not doing well for them when he did. Great player for Liverpool but, just didn't work out over there
Yeah, I was just reading he was a non-entity his substitute role yesterday with the game passing him by. If truth be told, he should of hung it up after '13/'14. His last year at Anfield the season after his legs just went was a write-off and it was hard to watch him. You listen to him, he blames himself so much for the Chelsea game (which is ridiculous as we wouldn't of even been in that position without his drive and leadership. But the mind is a funny thing), I think he so wanted to both put that right with L'pool, and now lead LA to something.
When your legs go, your legs go. You need to know when to hold your hands up and say I can't do this any more.
That time is overdue for Steven. The prospect of having him back at the club in some capacity whilst he learns more about the coaching side and completes his badges I just don't see much of any downside to as some do. He won't be involved with the first team set-up so no disruption there. He's no bigger personality than Klopp is, who wouldn't even be entertaining the idea if he wasn't more than happy with it, so no distraction there. Having him out at Kirkby and back involved would be perfect. What a boost for the young lads already there to be coming in everyday knowing they'd be working with Steven Gerrard? And what an example he'd be to them in everything you need to do to have a good, long career in the game. Not to mention he'd be an extra selling point to new kids and their parents ..... Come here, and you'll not only be brought up the right way with everyone having your best interests at heart, you'll get to be coached by this fella' .....
Munich and Milan spring instantly to mind on great clubs that are littered with ex-players from Director level on down. Often club legends. On a wider scale its another thing we get SO wrong in England IMHO. The way we completely discard players at 35 or so when they still have SO much to offer within the game. You look at the so called English 'Golden Generation' at National level that Gerrard was a part of. How many of them are still in the game after playing? Or will be the next couple of years when they finally retire? Gary Neville had a very brief go at coaching. (Albeit going around it the completely wrong way.). Sherringham (does he even count as part of that group?) managed at Stevenage but is now back out of the game. And that's about it. The likes of Neville, Ferdinand, Scholes, Carragher, Hargreaves all jobbing on TV when they could be contributing so much more to the game and Utd and L'pool in particular. If they'd only been asked and wanted by their respective clubs after their playing usefulness was at an end. Edwin van der Sar is the darn 'Marketing Director' at Ajax for Pete's sake. Because Ajax wanted him still involved at some level and he wanted to stay involved with his club.
We get SO much wrong for me in this Country it's untrue.
