Steven George Gerrard MBE (born 30 May 1980) is an English professional football manager and former player who manages Scottish Premiership club Rangers.
He spent the majority of his playing career as a central midfielder for Liverpool, with most of that time spent as club captain, as well as captaining the England national team. Widely regarded as one of the greatest midfielders of all time,
Gerrard was awarded the UEFA Club Footballer of the Year award in 2005, and the Ballon d'Or Bronze Award. In 2009, Zinedine Zidane and Pelé said that they considered Gerrard to be the best footballer in the world.
Steven Gerrard's secret Rangers pursuit of Aberdeen star who refused to do the Dons dirty
dailyrecord.co.ukJoe Lewis has revealed Steven Gerrard wanted to take him to Rangers but he couldn’t do the dirty on Aberdeen.The big keeper had verbally agreed a new deal with the Dons when the Light Blues declared their interest back in 2019.
Lewis admitted it was flattering but he had already given his word to Derek McInnes at Pittodrie and knew he couldn’t walk out on them for one of their major rivals.Lewis said: “We played Rangers away and we lost 2-0 at Ibrox.
I had a really good game. Rangers made contact with a few people after that game and so I was aware of their interest. They had asked a few questions and knew I was into the last year of my contract.
I had verbally agreed to an extension with Aberdeen and I wasn’t going to go back on that. Rangers are a big club but I wouldn’t have felt comfortable going to there from Aberdeen.“It wouldn’t have felt right and also I had verbally agreed a new deal with Aberdeen.
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