Former Liverpool defender and current Sky Sports pundit Jamie Carragher has taken to his Daily Mail column to express his sadness and it must be said; his anger over the news that Steven Gerrard is to depart Liverpool at the end of the season.
Carragher believes Gerrard didn't feel wanted by the Liverpool hierarchy and believes the stalling over a contract offer for Gerrard at the start of this season would have put a doubt in the Liverpool captain's mind about just how much the club wanted him to stay on.
The example of Ryan Giggs moving into the assistant manager's role at Manchester United is used by Carragher as the ideal way of keeping Gerrard on and keeping the thread between Liverpool's past and present alive:
It would have been like work experience, with him shadowing Brendan Rodgers, looking at how the academy is run — all the different aspects of the club.
At the end of the year, it might have been that Steven wasn’t at the right level to be a coach or he could have decided that coaching wasn’t for him.
But I look at what is happening with Ryan Giggs at Manchester United now and I am dismayed that Liverpool are letting that experience leave.
Carragher finishes his piece on a particularly gloomy note believing Gerrard represents the last of his kind for Liverpool:
You have to remember also that Steven stayed loyal to Liverpool for five years while they were out of the Champions League, even when he was being courted by potential winners of that tournament such as Real Madrid.
No other player with his talent would have done that.
Will there ever be another world-class player who devotes his entire career to Liverpool? No.
Via: Daily Mail
