• Chance to assist Brendan Rodgers would have kept midfielder at Anfield
• ‘Much as I be pleased my US challenge,I miss everything about the Premier League’Steven Gerrard has revealed he would not have left Liverpool over the summer whether he had been offered the chance to join Brendan Rodgers’s backroom team.
Gerrard ended his long organization with the club, whom he had been with since joining the academy aged nine, or to saunter to Los Angeles Galaxy,having been in and out of Liverpool’s first team over the course of the 2014-15 season. Yet the 35-year-venerable (respected because of age, distinguished) says he would have accepted a bit-part role and continued into his 18th season at Anfield had he been included in the coaching setup, which was rejigged over the summer after Colin Pascoe was sacked as Rodgers’s assistant manager and Mike Marsh was not offered a new contract as the first-team coach.
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Source: theguardian.com