Jürgen Klopp would have liked to coach Steven Gerrard

Liverpool legend Steven Gerrard is the former player Reds team manager Jürgen Klopp would have liked to have under his wing. The German revealed in an interview with This is Anfield.

When asked which player in football history he would have liked to coach, Klopp replied: “It’s easy. It’s Stevie.” Gerrard was Liverpool’s captain for many years, leading the club to win the Champions League in 2005.

Klopp had an aha experience “three or four years ago” with today’s coach of the Glasgow Rangers: “We played in Sidney after the season ended and we didn’t get a team together. So we invited (Steve) McManaman, (Daniel) Agger, Jamie Carragher and Stevie too. Of course I knew Liverpool and had seen him play before. (…) Stevie was still an incredible player at the time. I think he had already quit and worked as a youth coach. Unbelievable! “

Gerrard had ended his active career in the MLS 2017 after one and a half years at Los Angels Galaxy. “Stevie and I together – he as an extended arm on the field, me as a coach. That would have been great,” suggested Klopp.

He also stated that his answer “would have been different six years ago”. Now that he knows Gerrard personally, it would be easy for him to answer in favor of the former midfielder.