Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp will do whatever he can to help Steven Gerrard. Gerrard was recently handed a coaching role in the Liverpool academy.
The 36-year-old will rejoin his club on February as a full-time coach. Gerrard left Liverpool for MLS side LA Galaxy ending his 17-year association with his boyhood club. He has always had this desire to take up coaching as a profession. A few weeks ago, he rejected a chance to manage MK Dons when they approached him.
Klopp had earlier proposed a place in his coaching staff to the ex-England midfielder. The German is famous for nurturing talents and would be the ideal person to guide Gerrard who is also undergoing his UEFA A coaching badges.
The German gaffer said, “We had a very good, very long talk together
“Everyone in this room knows better than I do he is a wonderful guy and it was important to know what Steven wants and he said he wants to be a manager in the future. That’s cool.
“From my side I said everything I can do to help him on his way to be the best manager he can be, I am ready for this and I’d like to do it.
“Now he is at the academy it is good for us and for him it is perfect. Being a manager is a job you have to learn and when a person like Steven Gerrard and the player he was is ready to make the steps, that is wonderful news for football.
“Combining his playing experience with all the things he will learn from now on will be a bright future. It is brilliant.”
