Do you think deep down Gerrard regrets not testing himself at an elite club? His career has been one largely of failure at club and international level littered with errors in big games. Maybe the pressure of more regular big games is one reason he did not want to move to an elite club. His poor record in big games such as two goals in 42 games v Chelsea and going eight years (I think) without scoring v United are two big reasons why Liverpool never won the league
Another fan obsessed by a legend. Of course he doesn't regret it you complete tool, the guy has gone down in history as probably the greatest Liverpool player of all time. I'm sure he'd rather be remembered as that rather than some money hungry Chelsea premier league champion. But you're probably still upset that he turned down Roman Oil Ltd.
We got Essien and Ballack, better players who dovetailed better with Frank. Gerrard is a Liverpool legend, but not a real legend like Maldini or Giggs
The thing he regrets is the dross he's had to play with, and under, at the club for the vast majority of his career. The players and certainly all the managers he's had to endure deserves a medal in itself.
Rodgers said Gerrard will always be welcome back at Anfield while he's still in charge. When does Gerrard's contract officially end?
That's very magnanimous of him. I'm sure that means a lot coming from a failure who will be quickly forgotten when he leaves the club.
...I guess so .. he'd probably have been far happier working as a setter in a brick factory and playing semi-pro for Huyton ... ... he played for the club he loved and would have supported even if he hadn't played - he went on to captain them and to lift the highest trophy possible in European football ... he must be kicking himself that he wasn't more of a football mercenary and didn't move to a club where he could have replaced sentiments like loyalty and pride for money and the glory of knowing that he was winning things because his club had more money than most rivals and could therefore attract other such footballing mercenaries ... surely as a boy he must have dreamt about playing for Ruben Kazan or whichever club goes on to buy the best players in Europe over the next decade ... or perhaps he just dreamt of playing for Liverpool .. his team... his Liverpool .... but then I'm just a romantic .. and bugger, surely he could also have chosen a different country to play for?
Gerrard is the best English Midfielder the premier league has had. He could have played at any club, but if he'd moved to the Chavs he wouldn't have been remembered as the legend that he is as it would have tainted his career playing for a club who have simply bought their way to the top. At Liverpool he earned his Champions League medal and with the club he loved. No better fitting for a great player who was loyal to his roots
Hard to pick one really, as for different reasons there are some good candidates. Vieira and Keane are probably the best battling midfield enforcers although Vieira was more skilful Giggs, Scholes and Cantona were also immense players Lampard has to be up there too and as much as it pains me to say it, I think Fabregas will go on to be known as one of the best the premier league has seen. But for all round play, I'd probably give it to Gerrard.
That famous midfielder Cantona. Or the general Giggs! No wonder HIAG mocks you. Anyone who knows anything about football knows Scholes is head and shoulders above Gerrard, who is poor technically especially under pressure
Nicely informed article from the OP. My compliments! I don't think Slippy would have been even half the player he was, had he moved to another club. If he hadn't played for LFC, I think he'd have ended up as a hod-carrier or a bouncer at one of Meseyside's seedier night clubs. Or, perhaps, a gypsy. I think it was the act of pulling on that red shirt that drove an (otherwise) very average player into becoming a dogged fighter. Had he played, for example, for Arsenal, I think he would have struggled to convince Wenger that he was good enough for the reserves. As someone has already pointed out, he was continually bottling it in the big games, and that is certainly not the stuff of legends. Stan Collymore is a bigger LFC legend than Gerrard!
No big game bottler Stan. Gerrard said yesterday that he was suffocated by the pressure of playing for Liverpool. Imagine the pressure of playing for United or Chelsea. Or laughably Real, like he could handle the pressure there with his ordinary technique and poor passing. The odd Hollywood ball does not cut it at the Bernabeu
