FORMER LIVERPOOL CAPTAIN Jamie Carragher believes the club didn’t do enough to keep Steven Gerrard at Anfield.
Writing in his Daily Mail column, Carragher makes comparisons to the way in which Ryan Giggs has been treated at Manchester United, promoted to a player/coach under David Moyes, filling in as a caretaker manager before taking on his current role as an assistant to Louis van Gaal.
Carragher feels something could’ve been done to avoid Gerrard leaving the club he’s served for so long.
I cannot help feeling Liverpool’s hierarchy should have done more to ensure he remained at Anfield. Surely they could have come up with an arrangement that would have benefited all parties in the short and long term?
“Over the next 12 months Steven could have been given a role on the staff to combine with his playing duties. It would have been like work experience, with him shadowing Brendan Rodgers, looking at how the academy is run — all the different aspects of the club. At the end of the year, it might have been that Steven wasn’t at the right level to be a coach or he could have decided that coaching wasn’t for him. But I look at what is happening with Ryan Giggs at Manchester United now and I am dismayed that Liverpool are letting that experience leave.”
Speaking to football magazine twentyfour7 in 2013, Gerrard revealed his dream would be to manage Liverpool once his playing career came to an end.
