Steven Gerrard wants Xabi Alonso or Jamie Carragher as assistant if he ever gets the chance to manage Liverpool

  • Sportsmail is serialising Steven Gerrard's explosive book, My Story
  • Gerrard dreams of becoming Liverpool manager one day 
  • Xabi Alonso or Sportsmail's Jamie Carragher would be assistant choices
  • Gerrard wants to spend a week watching Bayern Munich's Pep Guardiola 

By Steven Gerrard For The Daily Mail

Published: 16:00 EST, 13 September 2015 | Updated: 18:12 EST, 13 September 2015

I sometimes allow my mind to wander and think, ‘Wouldn’t it be amazing to manage Liverpool one day?’ Right now I can’t know if I’d be good enough or if I would even be asked to do the job in the future.

First and foremost I’d have to feel confident that I could be a successful manager. I would never take the job on the back of my name — or just because some fans would like me to step in on the basis they’d once supported me as a player.

I know that being manager of Liverpool Football Club is a huge job. It needs the right man with the right credentials and know-how.

Liverpool legend Steven Gerrard's explosive autobiography is being serialised by Sportsmail

Liverpool legend Steven Gerrard's explosive autobiography is being serialised by Sportsmail

Gerrard dreams of becoming Liverpool boss and would bring in Xabi Alonso as his assistant manager

Gerrard dreams of becoming Liverpool boss and would bring in Xabi Alonso as his assistant manager

Gerrard (pictured with the Champions League trophy in 2005) would also consider Jamie Carragher

Gerrard (pictured with the Champions League trophy in 2005) would also consider Jamie Carragher

Gerrard and Carragher both know all about the highs and lows of that being immersed in Liverpool brings

Gerrard and Carragher both know all about the highs and lows of that being immersed in Liverpool brings

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So for me, at the moment, it can’t be anything more than a ‘maybe’. All I can really say is that it is a lovely dream — but I simply have no idea if it will ever happen or if it’s even realistic to talk about it.

It’s still quite fun to fantasise a little. If, totally hypothetically, I was going to become Liverpool manager one day I know who I’d love to have as my assistant: Xabi Alonso or Jamie Carragher. They are very intelligent, have a deep knowledge of football and are special men.

If I had smart people around me, and the right coaching team behind me, I like to think I could succeed as a manager.

I have completed and passed my B licence and will now take a break while I concentrate on playing football with LA Galaxy and then crack on with my UEFA A coaching licence once I’m back in England for good. The idea of becoming a manager one day is intriguing but I still really don’t know if it’s the road I will follow.

Once my playing career is over in America I want to explore various aspects of management. I would love to spend some time with a few top managers. How could you not learn a lot if you had a chance to talk in detail about management to Mourinho, Wenger, Hodgson and Rodgers?

The same goes for Pep Guardiola. I’d love spending a week watching Pep work.

Bayern Munich's Pep Guardiola is someone Gerrard would like to study over the course of a week

Bayern Munich's Pep Guardiola is someone Gerrard would like to study over the course of a week

 

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