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Stevie to return sooner rather than later?

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According to The Record, Brendan wants to bring Stevie back and hand him a player/coach role at Celtic. There was also talk over the weekend Klopp was going to offer him a coaching role as he and his family haven't settled in LA, and was looking to return to the UK asap. I'd welcome him back on the coaching staff. Would others?
 
I think it's too soon for him to come back here given he has no coaching experience. I think a year at Celtic as player/coach would be a good move for him.
 
Start with Celtic. Win the league there a few times, and the Champions League too, while learning from Rodgers about management.
 
LeTallecWiz said:
Start with Celtic. Win the league there a few times, and the Champions League too, while learning from Rodgers about management.
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Learn what not to do as a manager, haha. Could be a good move for him. If his family are homesick, not so sure they'll swap LA for Glasgow, pretty sure they'll only come back to Merseyside
 
Good move, he could still do a very good job in that league.

Plus he could get one last hurrah in champions league
 
hmmmmm1 said:
Good move, he could still do a very good job in that league.

Plus he could get one last hurrah in champions league
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If Celtic make it in the Champion League..

I doubt they will though.. they got beat by a tinpot team last time out in the Playoffs and that was after getting re-instated after being trounced by another tinpot team in the earlier round

Oh and BR is in charge who's European experience is well.. not the best...
 
I'm not convinced Stevie's cut out for coaching at all. If he had been, I'd have expected him to do more of it on the pitch while skippering the side. By all means let him dip his toe in the water somewhere else, but I'd want to see how that went before even considering taking him on the staff at LFC.
 
If he doesn't come back here, he should go to Newcastle and learn how to become a manager.
 
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If his legendary status as a player does nothing other than help us recruit players (which it has done in the past) then it would be silly not take him. What young scouser (or any young player) wouldn't be impressed upon meeting Stevie G at Melwood? Never mind the prospect of being coached by him.

If he's any good at coaching then even better. A player of his skill is bound to have some skills as a coach.
 
Judge Jules said:
I'm not convinced Stevie's cut out for coaching at all. If he had been, I'd have expected him to do more of it on the pitch while skippering the side. By all means let him dip his toe in the water somewhere else, but I'd want to see how that went before even considering taking him on the staff at LFC.
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Yeah, although - with the help of no research at all - it does seem that players who become managers are always split into just two camps:

1) "He was always going to be a manager, even from a young age as a player, he was interested in the coaching and tactical side of the game, and he was doing his badges while still playing. He was always asking me questions and was eager to learn

2) "To be honest I never really expected him to go into management when he was a player, he never seemed that type who would be interested"
 
refugee said:
If his legendary status as a player does nothing other than help us recruit players (which it has done in the past) then it would be silly not take him. What young scouser (or any young player) wouldn't be impressed upon meeting Stevie G at Melwood? Never mind the prospect of being coached by him.

If he's any good at coaching then even better. A player of his skill is bound to have some skills as a coach.
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Souness, Barnes, Rush, Fowler, Mcmanaman?

He should be at Melwood in some capacity - ambassador or something like that. But let us leave the coaching and managing to technical people who are more qualified. Unless Stevie proves himself elsewhere to be an innovative coach and manager.
 
refugee said:
If his legendary status as a player does nothing other than help us recruit players (which it has done in the past) then it would be silly not take him. What young scouser (or any young player) wouldn't be impressed upon meeting Stevie G at Melwood? Never mind the prospect of being coached by him.

If he's any good at coaching then even better. A player of his skill is bound to have some skills as a coach.
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I'd nearly say the opposite. He possibly didn't require or absorb as much coaching as other players due to his ridiculous level of natural talent.
 
Aidan O' Neill said:
I'd nearly say the opposite. He possibly didn't require or absorb as much coaching as other players due to his ridiculous level of natural talent.
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Also the problem with Fowler. How could he coach what he could do? I doubt even he knows how he did half of it, much less pass on his "secrets".

"I just hit it right into the corner"

Er, cheers.

You can't coach that kind of ridiculous talent.
 
Aidan O' Neill said:
I'd nearly say the opposite. He possibly didn't require or absorb as much coaching as other players due to his ridiculous level of natural talent.
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Coaching isn't necessarily about turning people into world class players. There's load of mundane tasks that coaches have to do such as fitness drills, fundamental drills, positioning drills.....basically drills in general. If he's crap at coaching then he can easily do some of the lesser tasks as the club will still benefit from his presence (as mentioned earlier). Even playing against him in a match would help a youngster learn.

People are talking as if every coach needs to be world class at everything, which isn't true. They just need to be be able to contribute to the coaching team. And if Stevie is able to attract new players and/or inspire youngsters then he's well on his way to being a positive influence without us knowing anything about his coaching skills.

And I'm aware this might be a contentious sentence, but I trust our existing coaching team (and even the board) to not hire someone that will bring more negatives than positives to the club. So if Klopp wants him for the first team or reserve team coaching staff, or the academy want him for the kids then I think he brings many obvious benefits and many potential benefits.
 
I remember that really insightful anecdote about Glenn Hoddle's management. As a very gifted player he often seemed to use coaching sessions as an opportunity to show the assembled players just how fucking great he was, in particular a bemused David Beckham, who got the full treatment from Hoddle about how to take a free kick properly, which just amounted to Hoddle doing it again and again, saying "watch this".
 
refugee said:
Coaching isn't necessarily about turning people into world class players. There's load of mundane tasks that coaches have to do such as fitness drills, fundamental drills, positioning drills.....basically drills in general. If he's crap at coaching then he can easily do some of the lesser tasks as the club will still benefit from his presence (as mentioned earlier). Even playing against him in a match would help a youngster learn.

People are talking as if every coach needs to be world class at everything, which isn't true. They just need to be be able to contribute to the coaching team. And if Stevie is able to attract new players and/or inspire youngsters then he's well on his way to being a positive influence without us knowing anything about his coaching skills.

And I'm aware this might be a contentious sentence, but I trust our existing coaching team (and even the board) to not hire someone that will bring more negatives than positives to the club. So if Klopp wants him for the first team or reserve team coaching staff, or the academy want him for the kids then I think he brings many obvious benefits and many potential benefits.
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I agree with your faith in the coaching team, but I don't know whether having Stevie just putting the bollards out or something would feel right either to him or to the club. Just giving him that kind of subordinate role could be problematic IMO and I wouldn't be surprised if such an arrangement didn't last.
 
He's welcome back here anytime he wants as far as I'm concerned.

He's Stevie ffs, he's the main man, the Talisman, Mr Liverpool for the past 15 years.
 
I'd be interested to see what approach Stevie takes as a manager. He hated the Benitez approach but arguably it assisted him to be one of the world's best Attacking midfielders.

He has played under a number of excellent managers for Liverpool and England. Evaluating the pros and cons of each approach and developing a clearly defined strategic plan or a set of principles could work. Unfortunately ..I can see Stevie ditching such plans after a few poor results and internalise his frustration until BANG! Epic sulking and shouting.
 
He reminds me a bit about Keegan, in the sense that when Kevin was positive it felt as though it infected the whole of Anfield, but when he was in a foul mood, jeez, everyone was tense. Steven can be superb around a club if he's in the right mood, but he's horrendously bad when he's feeling negative. Klopp's working so hard to shake the club out of the horrible defeatism and fatalism that's engulfed it in recent years, save for a brief spasm under Brendan, I think Gerrard is just the kind of mercurial figure he can do without. At least until we win something.
 
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