Don't quite know the agenda this Simon Hughes fella has but it's bordering on obsessive with his 'scoops' and supportive opinion pieces regarding return of over the hill legends. Hughes, quite simply, doesn't realise that this is a new start, (A RESTART as Klopp said) and that we don't need any soggy sentimental tokenism like this. Should he train? Sure he could, but he should stay out of first team matters entirely. Gerrard, perhaps, wants to come back and put on the red shirt again but doing so would just be in order to serve a self fulfilling agenda. If he thought in regards to doing what is best for the future of the team, he'd realise that such an idea is pure folly. Given the tripe he wrote in his latest autobiography I somehow doubt he has the humility and/or awareness to believe or accept that is the case.
While some bemoan how he departed others will quite rightly ask 'what took it so long'? People like to find faults in how he departed Liverpool but that's just nit picking in the extreme. To argue that he should have been kept on in a coaching role goes against the grain of merit associated with the success of Liverpool FC. How about he get his coaching badges then return to the club like every other hard working, hard spending coach in this country? The idea that he only had to offer 'inspiration' as a coach to make him a success at the club is pure fantasy. They are such pithy grounds for keeping a player/coach on.
Somehow we allowed a cult of personality to surround Gerrard to the point where we were merely serving his interests as opposed to the club as a whole...as Rodgers found out so painfully last season and arguably throughout his tenure here as Liverpool manager.
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