Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher has tipped his old teammate Steven Gerrard to potentially succeed Jurgen Klopp as Reds manager.
The Anfield great has been doing a fine job in charge of Scottish giants Rangers over the past year or so, and Carragher believes his former colleague could one day replace the German at the helm of the European champions.
“With managers it’s all about timing, really,” he said, as per the Daily Mirror. “Who knows when Jurgen Klopp is going to go? Stevie could be having a difficult time here, he could be somewhere else or he could be absolutely flying at Rangers and people are thinking he’s made for the Liverpool job.
“Stevie will be in the reckoning because he is Steven Gerrard. But more importantly, because he is doing really well as a manager. There’s no doubt that the more experiences he has will enhance him in his managerial career, but there’s nothing to say he couldn’t go straight from Rangers to Liverpool.”
OPINION
Carragher is absolutely spot on, here. While Gerrard will always be an attractive managerial proposition for Liverpool because of all he achieved at the club as a player, he needs to be doing well at Rangers if he is to get the opportunity to manage his boyhood club. If he goes and blows it at Ibrox then there’s no way he’d be trusted at Anfield, no matter what he did for the club as a player. We’ve seen with Frank Lampard at Chelsea and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer at Manchester United that you can get a job based partly on your status at a club, but you also need to have been doing well in your previous job as well. Luckily for Gerrard he is doing that right now. However, Klopp can stay in charge of the Reds for as long as he wants really, so Gerrard is basically operating contingent to Klopp’s whimsy. That’s what happens when you are a Champions League-winning boss, though. Gerrard simply has to focus on winning the league with Rangers first before he even gets a sniff of the Liverpool job.
