Steven Gerrard, one of the game's very best,has announced today that he is retiring from football after nineteen years of success at the top of the sport.
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has only been at the club since October 2015, and did not manage Gerrard, but has only the warmest of words to say about one of the finest talents to have ever walked into Anfield.
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"I'm only here 14 months. How can I be the person who says how big this person is? He's a great person." Klopp said of the Champions League winnerin a press conferenceon Thursday.
Gerrard may have retired from the game, but was recently linked with a coaching appointment at MK Dons. It appears to be his intention to pass his wisdom and experience on to future stars.
The first thing you should all maybe learn if someone wants to help Steven Gerrard is stop being so excited about each next step. For everything in life you need room, space to jump in and do something and learn something new. If he's retiring as a player the next thing he will do is new.
He was a young player, he'll be a young whatever. There's nothing to talk about and I'm absolutely the wrong person to talk about it because maybe all of you know him better than me.
Steven, brilliant player, World legend. Congratulations for what you did for football! #Gerrard ï'Œï�» pic.twitter.com/zsskrCEnwN
What I said - and it's a law - that the door is always open for him. From our side if he wants it's an open door and I'm sure he will want. And if he wants to make a different career from his former career we want to help him, that's how it is. Nothing else to say and maybe that was already too much.�
Gerrard's achievements go before him, most famously including the Champions League victory over AC Milan in the 2005 final. Alongside Kenny Dalglish, Gerrard will go down in history as one of Liverpool's proudest products.