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Steven Gerrard: ‘Rodgers forced me out’

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Liverpool legend reveals former-manager made him quit the club

LA Galaxy midfielder Steven Gerrard has revealed he only left his boyhood club Liverpool because Brendan Rodgers kept leaving him out of big games.

The Anfield legend shocked the footballing world when he revealed that he’d be leaving the club in order to join the MLS side, and he’s now revealed that it was the former-manager that forced him out of the door.

Rodgers lost his job a few months after Gerrard left the club, and he was replaced by Jurgen Klopp, who has openly admitted that Gerrard can return to the club in order to train if he wants.

Speaking about his decision to quit Liverpool, the midfielder admitted that missing out on big matches made him want to quit the club, but because of the love for it, he didn’t want to stay in Europe.

Gerrard Reveals All

He told Eurosport: “It was simple: I didn’t want to compete against Liverpool. Liverpool is my team, the team that I love, the team that I will always support for the rest of my life.

“And I was at that stage at that age where the manager, Brendan Rodgers, was playing me less and less; I was missing big games on the bench.

“That’s not what I enjoy – it’s not the Steven Gerrard I want to be – so I thought the time was right to try something new, something different.”

Written by Alex Batt – @AlexBatt

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