he texted Mourinho to say he was joing him then changed his mind - and that was playing in midfield.
No matter how close he got to leaving he still stayed, to me that's still loyal.
He's not a pass-and-move player in the mould that Klopp uses. he prefers holding onto the ball and hitting long passes - yes he COULD play in a different way if he wanted but its not his natural game.
I think you're influenced by how many long balls you've seen him hit in the latter part of his career. Early on I don't remember him spraying them around nearly as much, even still when he did hit them longer he was one of the absolute best long ball passers in the game. The point being he could play quicker when needed and I think you're wrong here but happy to agree to disagree.
He played in the DLPM role because he was forced to - his discipline improved as he didn'r have the physical attributes any more but he wasn't "brilliant" - his mobility meant we were weak through the middle.
I argued against him being played there and he proved me wrong, it's that simple really. I thought the positives we got from Gerrard playing there far outweighed the weaknesses he exposed. Considering his age and the time of transition I thought it was brilliant but each to their own.
Just because a player is talented doesn't mean he will fit in a system. Mourinho wanting him is completely irrelevant since he plays an entirely different type of game!
No I was highlighting how another manager, who could pretty much have his pick of any player in the world coveted Gerrard so highly and that manager also demanded positional awareness and tactical intelligence from his players, something you seem suggesting is the reason Klopp wouldn't want him (along with the quick passing).
Anyway - it's speculation - and had Klopp come in it would have been with an ageing Stevie anyway - i nmy opnion he would have got the chop relatively early. Certainly, he would have had trouble surviving triple session training regimes.
I'll go as far as to say I don't think Klopp would have played him nearly as much as Brendan did and most likely would have left a couple of years earlier if Klopp joined when Brendan did, any further than that and we'll have to agree to disagree HB.
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