Steven Gerrard shares all to Gary Neville on management, Villa, Liverpool & more | The Overlap
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🗓️ 21 April 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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My full interview with Aston Villa manager and Liverpool legend Steven Gerrard is here, brought to you by Sky Bet.
Steven tells me about how he became a manager, with Klopp giving him the u18s to manage at Liverpool.
He then talks about his time with Rangers, his management style and his ambitions with Villa.
We finally chat about the Chelsea game, and how he coped with the aftermath.
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| 0:00.0 | I knew taking this job it wasn't going to be up or hook. |
| 0:05.0 | I knew we were going to have some bad days and a couple of defeats on the bounce and the press you're going to come and pundits are going to have a go, it's football. Who's had to go yet? No one's had to go off there? Eh, I don't know. Probably secretly the left. I don't know. I know it's brewing. It's in the post, isn't it? It's in the post. |
| 0:20.0 | No, you're not on the radar yet. |
| 0:22.0 | We've got other bigger fish at the moment. |
| 0:24.0 | You're all doing well. I know it's brewing, it's in the post, isn't it? It's in the post. No, you're not on the radar yet. |
| 0:21.6 | We've got other bigger fish at the moment, but you're doing well. This club's a huge club. Why has this club been like this for so long? We've got to believe if we connect each other and stay aligned, I'm hoping we can make a success of this. was open with Yegan, Yeager was open at me and I said to him, go on then, what do you see? |
| 0:37.6 | He said, take your own team, play and I said to him, go on then. What do you see? |
| 0:37.9 | He said, take your own team, play your own system, try things, make mistakes. |
| 0:42.0 | What was your lowest moment in your career? |
| 0:45.5 | The obvious one. It still pains me. That's the moment to look back and think, |
| 0:49.4 | if only I just got that right. |
| 0:52.3 | How are you and what do you do after a bad defeat? How do you take it? It's bad in it. |
| 0:57.2 | You've probably seen this. Oh it's bad. It's a shocker. What did you when you get home with |
| 1:02.5 | Alex and the kids? What are you like? Don't speak to them for a bit. On this episode of the Overlap, I travel to Birmingham to meet a Liverpool legend who's made a great start in management. |
| 1:18.6 | Stephen Gerard made over 700 appearances for Liverpool, winning eight major trophies. |
| 1:25.6 | We discuss its transition from playing into the dugout, bringing |
| 1:29.8 | a title back to Rangers and returning to the Premier League with Aston Villa. |
| 1:38.5 | Stevie, welcome to the overlap. Great to see you. And thank you for inviting us down to this |
| 1:42.7 | fantastic training ground. My pleasure. |
| 1:44.6 | So I kept getting asked a question in Valencia and I didn't have a clue what they meant. |
| 1:50.4 | And it was, they kept saying to him, what's your idea? |
| 1:53.4 | And it was probably six, seven years ago this. |
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