And he will leave as one of the top three players in the club’s 134-year history alongside Kenny Dalglish and Steven Gerrard. Few, perhaps, will know what that truly means—or what it feels like to start to feel it all slipping away. “I spoke to him around the time and sort of said, don’t do what you’ve done and leave under a cloud,” Gerrard said on The Overlap. “I’m not that close to him but I took the opportunity to say you’ve been here eight, nine years, you’ve been king, you’ve got a legacy. So go on your terms, go the right way.

Source: The Guardian April 02, 2026 18:48 UTC