Former Liverpool star Michael Owen has revealed that the Reds wanted to get rid of talismanic midfielder Steven Gerrard two years before his actual departure to LA Galaxy back in 2015.
Steven Gerrard is considered to be one of the greatest players to ever grace Liverpool football club playing over 500 League games for the Reds in a career spanning from 1998 till 2015 helping the club to win three League Cups as well as a Champions League title.
Gerrard won the Liverpool Player Of The Season on four occasions but left the club back in 2015 to join MLS side LA Galaxy and announced his retirement just a year later in 2016. But Gerrard’s former teammate Michael Owen has explained that Liverpool wanted to get rid of their then club captain even sooner.
Owen recently published his autobiography and in a column he wrote that if Gerrard had the chance to remain at Anfield he would, “In Steven’s case, I severely doubt whether he really wanted to go and play in the States in 2015. I’ve heard that the club wanted him out two years prior to when he actually left. I’m sure he would rather have wound his career down at Liverpool, playing increasingly fewer games until he reached a point where he could be integrated into the coaching staff. This only happened later in his case. But instead, because he’d become so symbolic and so powerful, I believe he was forced out in the short term. Steven was bigger than the club.”
