With Manchester United rival Ryan Giggs celebrating his 40th birthday this week and still able to make a significant contribution, Brendan Rodgers is confident Steven Gerrard will be able to do the same. It is exactly 15 years since the 33-year-old made his first-team debut and having featured in all 12 Barclays Premier League matches so far he is still going strong. "(They are) two players who have unquestionable quality and it is just really about fitness, and at this moment in time with Stevie his fitness is holding up very well," added Rodgers. "He will be 34 at the end of this season and I look at his fitness and him playing and I think he is as fit as he's ever been. He is looking after himself. "Of course that player he was maybe 10 years ago, being dynamic and making those lung-bursting runs forward, goes out of your game. "But as you have seen with Ryan Giggs you adapt and change. Looking at Steven I think he can play as a number two centre-half later in his career. "When you are playing against certain teams where they have got one up I think he can play as a right-sided centre-half and build the game from behind. "The way he passes the ball he is as good as anyone in the world, short and long. "It is a possibility he could go on but it will always be determined on fitness. "For the senior players it (importance of recovery) is always the case. Your body is different to when you were 16-21 and it is really how you look after yourself. "The players who go on and play late into their thirties it is not what they are doing in these last couple of years it is what they have been doing since they were 16: how they have been focused on their work, how their professionalism has allowed them to perform at that high level and that steely determination to succeed." ----------- Thoughts?
Put Gerrard anywhere and he will do a good job - as mentioned on the other thread though, I think most of us would prefer him to be playing up the other end of the field.
Rodgers sounding like Roy of the Rovers manager there, if he bombs at CB would he stick him in goal? lol
CF or RW maybe could try at some point, but defence no chance, or at least i hope not. also his point about Giggs going until he is 40, so what probably a one off it happens, but wait until Stevie has got to 35-36 and see how he is then before making stupid comments like this.
Anyone can see he's on a rapid descent in terms of his physical ability................then again, maybe not anyone, maybe your ****ty stream is too grainy to see him wading around the centre of the pitch......
Exactly what our manager is saying - adapting with the best of them. Can't believe you couldn't beat us with stupid old Gerrard on the field Saturday
15 years 644 apps 161 goals 140 assists 3 League Cups 2 FA Cups 1 Champions League He'll do a good job wherever he plays in my opinion. Over the years he's played in pretty much every position on the pitch and understands each position enough to play them. **** the haters, the guy is one of the best ever in the PL. Haters always gonna hate
Well Gerrard already has years in hand on Giggs due to the number of matches that he has played, the number of minutes and the number of tackles. After all Ferguson kept him wrapped-up in cotton-wool.
I think Gerrard at CB could potentially work against park the bus teams with one striker. Suddenly we have an extra ball player and a leader who can see the whole field.
So Rafa wanted him to work forwards as he aged to becoming a striker. Rodgers wants him moving backwards as he gets older to become a centre back. Lets give him a go in goal
Gerrard is capable of playing anywhere. Stick him at CB for one game and he'll be superb. However, stick him there for a dozen and he'll stink once he gets board of being disciplined. I like the idea as he is certainly capable of playing the ball out of defence but I reckon it would make us more of a long ball team when he continuously attempts to play the strikers in from ten yards outside his own penalty area! Also, he's a top player and probably the number one legend of Liverpool Football Club but lets not try to put square pegs in round holes. He is either good enough or not, don't try to fit him him through sentimental value or because of the Steven Gerrard name! I love Gerrard to bits and the day he retires will be a very sad day for the club, possibly more so than when Jamie Carragher retired, but unfortunately every players playing days have to come to an end eventually.
Depends on your number system. Brazilians see that as a cb I believe, 6 is a wing back I know, and 3 is too.
We're talking about a English club, in an English League, involving and English player with a British manager. I'm pretty certain a number two is a right back in England and Britain
