Liverpool news: Steven Gerrard will be at Liverpool in the MLS off-season working on his coaching badges. Gerrard has struggled in America and will likely put pressure on the LFC hierarchy to get a short term loan deal to play. I hope Klopp rejects the idea of him coming back IF it is to play.
Klopp has welcomed Gerrard to train and work on his coaching badges at Liverpool, but despite subtle pressures, rejected the idea of getting him in on a loan. Klopp has balls.
Incidentally, Fabrice Muvamba is at Liverpool working on his coaching badges too.
Its balls but also a good move. Man is past it, even in MLS he started brightly but now LA Galaxy fans don't want him. He is good but he just does not put in a shift anymore and was the reason for their early exit.
Great presence to have train with the club over the winter break so to have him will be good for Klopp but as a player for the squad, he can do better.
BTW, just realized Juninho (former Lyon and Vasco midfielder) retired in 2013... surprised he was never looked for the ISL. He was a good leader while with the Red Bulls but to damn slow!
Gerrard won't come to India or anywhere else for that matter. He wanted to stay at Liverpool but Rodgers dithered and, and Gerrard took this as that Rodgers only wanted him to be a squad player. And Gerrard doesn't do a squad role. As delusional as Rodgers was, even he realized that Gerrard was more of a disruption than a aid but he had no balls and didn't tell Gerrard to leave, but rather Gerrard made that decision on his own.
It is not the playing side I am worried about, but the about the power and influence Gerrard has over Liverpool. In the past, he has rejected ideas put to him by previous managers, and he became bigger than the club. For example, in 2007 summer, when Rafa asked him who he thinks should LFC bring in as a marquee expensive forward, Gerrard said Michael Owen from Real, but Benitez bought Torres, and Gerrard wasn't happy in the beginning with that. Jay Spearing, a decidedly average player from the academies was kept on for far too long because Gerrard knew Spearing's family. Under Klopp, with Liverpool moving in a different direction, we certainly do not need the power that Gerrard brings to Liverpool. I don't mind him getting his coaching badges and giving the reserves and youth players some encouragement, but that will be as far as it goes. Just wait and see, while Gerrard is with Liverpool only coaching over the winter, and if Liverpool hit a bad patch of form on the pitch, there will be calls from the locals to include him in the team, and they will start questioning Klopp for not including him.
Robbie Keane is in excellent form and for him, it works there, so I think they should try and keep him there. I probably shouldn't say this, but Keane was kicked out of Liverpool when they realized he liked snorting a certain white powder during the off-season occasionally.
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