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Gerrard set to manage Liverpool U18s next season

Midfielder will step up Academy coaching career

Steven Gerrard is set to take charge of Liverpool's U18 team from next season.
The Reds legend has been working at the club's Academy since January having taken a floating role across numerous age groups, but will take over the U18s in the summer.
He has regularly been seen on the sidelines with the U18s since he started and travelled with them for their 2-1 defeat at Reading last Saturday.
Gerrard's appointment will lead to a reshuffle at Kirkby, with current U18s coach Neil Critchley potentially moving up to the U23s.
Mike Garrity has been in temporary charge there since the departure of Michael Beale in December, but Critchley is highly thought of by Academy director Alex Inglethorpe, as well as first team manager Jurgen Klopp, and has played a big role in the progression of a number of the club's most talented youngsters.

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Curtis Jones of Liverpool talks with coach Steven Gerrard during the Liverpool v West Bromwich Albion U18 Premier League game at The Academy on February 4, 2017 (Photo by Nick Taylor/Liverpool FC/Liverpool FC via Getty Images)
Gerrard turned down the chance to manage League One side MK Dons in order to return to Liverpool after ending his playing career, and it is understood that this kind of progression was always planned for the 36-year-old, whose dedication and work ethic have been in clear evidence since his arrival at Kirkby.
 
Give the guy a chance. Neil Critchley has zero charisma, no playing career worth discussing and is no great tactical mastermind, so Gerrard's hardly got a lot to live up to. Let's see how he fares at that level.
 
gkmacca said:
Give the guy a chance. Neil Critchley has zero charisma, no playing career worth discussing and is no great tactical mastermind, so Gerrard's hardly got a lot to live up to. Let's see how he fares at that level.
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I hope he is a massive success, and I've no doubt we're going to give him the tools to try.

I'm just saying my gut feeling that he won't succeed. I've been wrong on tons of stuff so there's no reason why this shouldn't be any different


Leo said:
Exactly.
I love how all the experts on here think they know what type of persona makes a good coach.
It's never black and white.
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Did I say I was an expert?
Once again, lovely sarcasm and zero attempt to debate.

Cool story leo.
 
One thing they've lacked at that level (as I've bored people saying) is someone who'll make them care about winning and hate losing. At the very least Gerrard will change that. If that's all he does, it'll be plenty. If hr develops and shows real ability as a coach, that'll be wonderful. But it's a positive step in the short term at least.
 
So what's the inside word on Gerrard. Is he all about the club as it's publicly branded?

Is he somewhat kind and decent to normal people? Moaney old lady?Harry Hubris?

or Sound Seamus?
 
gkmacca said:
One thing they've lacked at that level (as I've bored people saying) is someone who'll make them care about winning and hate losing. At the very least Gerrard will change that. If that's all he does, it'll be plenty. If hr develops and shows real ability as a coach, that'll be wonderful. But it's a positive step in the short term at least.
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I'm sure it will also help with recruitment. Many young players will be starstruck when offered the opportunity to be coached by him.

Edit: Admittedly, we have to be able to sign players in the first place
 
localny said:
So what's the inside word on Gerrard. Is he all about the club as it's publicly branded?

Is he somewhat kind and decent to normal people? Moaney old lady?Harry Hubris?

or Sound Seamus?
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He's one of the few players of that generation I've never met in person. Not even bumped into or passed in town or anything.

I've had a chat with Carra though, & he said stevie is sound & spends loads of time talking to young fans, the only time he is a 'bit of a twat' (his words) is before a match when he gets all psyched up or after a defeat. He didn't often go out socialising with other players but would go round to their houses a lot of the time.

Didn't talk about him anymore than that, & I didn't want to be that cunt who just sits asking questions either.
 
FoxForceFive said:
He's one of the few players of that generation I've never met in person. Not even bumped into or passed in town or anything.

I've had a chat with Carra though, & he said stevie is sound & spends loads of time talking to young fans, the only time he is a 'bit of a twat' (his words) is before a match when he gets all psyched up or after a defeat. He didn't often go out socialising with other players but would go round to their houses a lot of the time.

Didn't talk about him anymore than that, & I didn't want to be that cunt who just sits asking questions either.
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I've met him. He seems alright. A bit miserable as you'd expect, but willing to chat to fans.
 
SummerOnions said:
What happened to Beale?

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A club in Brazil made him an offer to be assistant manager. He was unable to refuse. So he's in Sao Paulo. He's still alive because he gave that interview about Sakho the other week.
 
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Oncy said:
I think he will be good.
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Perhaps too good. He will be so much better than the players he will be coaching, taking the piss out of all of them in the training sessions, then start having those old delusions, and convince the boss to give him another chance.
 
Oncy said:
I think he will be good.
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Yeah me too - Why on earth wouldn't he be? MASSIVE experience and great respect within the club. Done his badges etc. Although having said that the same could be said for Giggs and Neville and see what happened to them thundercunts. Anyway I'm sure he'll do well.
 
dantes said:
A club in Brazil made him an offer to be assistant manager. He was unable to refuse. So he's in Sao Paulo. He's still alive because he gave that interview about Sakho the other week.
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Ha I thought it was weird he was giving insightful interviews...

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This is why it's a good idea to have Gerrard at the Academy:



Gerrard has long held concerns about the player development system in this country, worrying particularly about hunger levels. On gaining some distance from Anfield, Melwood and Kirkby during his sojourn in Major League Soccer, he revealed his disquiet over coffee in LA, noting that “Galaxy have a lot of young players who listen and want to learn — their attitude has blown me away compared to some attitudes back home”.

It was a theme that Gerrard returned to on Saturday evening, conversing with Glenn Hoddle, Ian Wright and the presenter Jake Humphrey on BT Sport’s Premier League Tonight programme. Gerrard riffed on the DNA of a winner. “I was obsessed,” he said. “I was obsessed at moving people out of the way and just going into training in my car obsessed with being the best player in training every single day. If I didn’t, I’d go home and think about it and try to do it the next day. You have to be obsessed. When you get that little sniff, that little bit of hope . . . even though they’re your team-mates, you’ve got to be obsessed to move them out of the way, and once you’re in, they’re staying out of the way and they’re not coming back.

“The word talent frustrates me. I love talent and I love seeing it, but for me since I’ve gone into the Liverpool academy and watch a lot of academy games of late what is important is these players need to understand the other side of the game: fighting, winning, tackling, going where it hurts, letting your lungs burn, really digging deep.

“The end of games when young kids want to give up, you can’t do that at Premier League level or Champions League level so, for me, just as important as talent is the other side of the game. Mentality is the word we’re looking for.”




My god this kind of thing has needed noting inside the club for years. I suspect that, although he's seen a bit of the youth set-up in passing during his time as a senior player, it's probably only now, close up, that he's seen just how laid back the players are these days, and it's shocked him. If Gerrard does nothing else apart from instilling a more competitive edge to player development, he'll have done plenty.
 
gkmacca said:
This is why it's a good idea to have Gerrard at the Academy:



Gerrard has long held concerns about the player development system in this country, worrying particularly about hunger levels. On gaining some distance from Anfield, Melwood and Kirkby during his sojourn in Major League Soccer, he revealed his disquiet over coffee in LA, noting that “Galaxy have a lot of young players who listen and want to learn — their attitude has blown me away compared to some attitudes back home”.

It was a theme that Gerrard returned to on Saturday evening, conversing with Glenn Hoddle, Ian Wright and the presenter Jake Humphrey on BT Sport’s Premier League Tonight programme. Gerrard riffed on the DNA of a winner. “I was obsessed,” he said. “I was obsessed at moving people out of the way and just going into training in my car obsessed with being the best player in training every single day. If I didn’t, I’d go home and think about it and try to do it the next day. You have to be obsessed. When you get that little sniff, that little bit of hope . . . even though they’re your team-mates, you’ve got to be obsessed to move them out of the way, and once you’re in, they’re staying out of the way and they’re not coming back.

“The word talent frustrates me. I love talent and I love seeing it, but for me since I’ve gone into the Liverpool academy and watch a lot of academy games of late what is important is these players need to understand the other side of the game: fighting, winning, tackling, going where it hurts, letting your lungs burn, really digging deep.

“The end of games when young kids want to give up, you can’t do that at Premier League level or Champions League level so, for me, just as important as talent is the other side of the game. Mentality is the word we’re looking for.”




My god this kind of thing has needed noting inside the club for years. I suspect that, although he's seen a bit of the youth set-up in passing during his time as a senior player, it's probably only now, close up, that he's seen just how laid back the players are these days, and it's shocked him. If Gerrard does nothing else apart from instilling a more competitive edge to player development, he'll have done plenty.
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Can't disagree with a single part of that macca

Hope to christ he makes a good show of it
 
There's another great bit in that article, about Gerrard getting rejected by the FA's School Of Excellence at Lilleshall.

Soon after, when their young stars came to Melwood to play their Liverpool counterparts, Gerrard fucking tore into them for 90 minutes and when the FA coaches came over to talk to him after the match, he just walked off.

Boss.
 
manwithnoname said:
There's another great bit in that article, about Gerrard getting rejected by the FA's School Of Excellence at Lilleshall.

Soon after, when their young stars came to Melwood to play their Liverpool counterparts, Gerrard fucking tore into them for 90 minutes and when the FA coaches came over to talk to him after the match, he just walked off.

Boss.
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He put that in his book. Not that he holds a grudge or anything
 
refugee said:
He put that in his book. Not that he holds a grudge or anything
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Holding a grudge is part of the reason he's such a fucking great player.

I suspect it featured in the Times article because Henry Winter wrote both. Obviously I haven't read the book, though.
 
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