Liverpool’s Steven Gerrard becomes surprise favorite for Premier League job

Steven Gerrard has been out of work since being sacked by Aston Villa in October 2022

Former Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard has emerged as the surprise favorite to replace Steve Cooper at Nottingham Forest.

Gerrard has not been in the dugout since his tenure at Aston Villa ended in October. The dismissal of the former England international comes after a poor start to the season.

However, the 42-year-old is now the bookmakers’ favorite to take over Cooper from the struggling Forest. As of this writing, he is considered a 3/1 favorite at SkyBet. The change of opportunity comes just days after Forest named Ross Wilson as its new chief football officer. Wilson was Rangers director of sport during Gerrard’s managerial tenure in Glasgow.

The pair worked together at Ibrox between Gerrard’s arrival in June 2018 and his departure to Villa nearly three-and-a-half years later. During their time together at Ibrox, Rangers won the Scottish Premiership.

Earlier this month, Gerrard revealed he had turned down opportunities at club and international level since he was sacked by the Villa Park club. He said: “You have to reset, wait and be patient for the fire and the fight to come back.

“Since leaving Villa I have had opportunities to manage at club and international level, including a great opportunity in a foreign league, but none of them suited me at the moment. In the meantime I enjoy being an Uber driver for my girls and my children.”

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However, it has now emerged that Liverpool have pulled out of the race to sign the English star, according to ESPN. The money needed to fund the deal is beyond the club and they will be going back to the drawing board in a bid to revive their aging midfield.

The Reds have already sent scouts to watch the 26-year-old in Sporting’s Europa League match against Arsenal. And St Juste have now hinted at why Liverpool are stepping up their interest in him.

“My concentration, my aggression, my vision of the game, being a leader, being technically proficient. I like going out and even playing centre-back, it’s all part of my game,” he told UEFA via O Jogo. .

“My speed? I inherited it from my mother, she was an athlete and was always very fast. But I also trained a lot for that, especially my strength, to keep that speed.”

“You absolutely have to be able to read the game, know where the danger is coming from, the positioning. When you’re in the right position, sometimes you don’t need to be fast. You can channel that energy into other stuff.

St Juste was instrumental in Sporting’s victory over Arsenal in the Europa League. He played all 210 minutes of both sets together. He made a crucial block against Gabriel Martinelli to prevent the Arsenal star from scoring and opened up that game-changing intervention. “It was a very important intervention in the game, I was very happy with it. We were close to the Arsenal box, we lost the ball and Martinelli took the ball and won the shot. We had three more defenders waiting for him, but he did it.” great skill,” he added.

“I knew it was possible to stop him. You can see what I look like and realize that when he attacks I had to accelerate to catch him. So Morita tried to cut the ball off and he succeeded, c was to kick the ball and then I realized I had to step in. “Recognizing these situations is also part of my skills, knowing that I can handle such a situation. So I had to run, but it turned out to be a good result. I think my colleagues thought it was a major cut.

“It was also important for the game and for the fans. It was important to show that the job wasn’t done, even if the opponent is only against our goalkeeper, something can be done to avoid the goal.”