Well fancy that - a role as an understudy at the academy and he doesn't want any special treatment because of who he is.
Funny thing is, if it was somebody like Xabi Alonso being talked about coming back as a reserve coach - Pepe Reina as goalkeeping coach maybe - the same people who've been foaming at the mouth about any potential return for Stevie would've been part of the welcoming committee at Melwood for either of them, regardless of their lack of coaching experience.
I understand people not wanting him back to be shoe horned into a role because of who he is and I don't understand people wanting him back in a playing role as he is obviously well past his best now in that department. It's the contingent of Liverpool supporters that have always, not so subtly, stuck the boot in on him and continue to do so that I will never understand.
For some, this is somebody returning that they've always been jealous of.
Somebody that they know is an all time legend of Liverpool Football Club yet they've always struggled to admit it.
Somebody that they cannot accept is a player that would have been more than comfortable in any previous, past Liverpool side and is also in any mature conversation about our best ever players and most conversations about the greatest midfielders of the past twenty years.
This is a bad move in their opinion.
These are people who would prefer to define his Liverpool career on him nearly going to Chelsea and for his last two years playing here.
Why? It is very hard to say.
For us, though, the people who define Steven Gerrard for the way he drove many of the Liverpool sides he played in on, or the way in which he stayed at the club when he could have practically guaranteed himself plenty more silverware by accepting any of the many offers that he refused, this is Liverpool Football Club finding him the right role at the club as of right now. Just like it has for Kenny Dalglish before now.
Arguably Liverpool Football Club's greatest ever player working with the future generation under Alex Inglethorpe?
What is not to like about this?
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