With Liverpool’s appalling challenge for the title this season pretty much over, I think it may be time for Steven Gerrard to leave ‘his’ club in order to win the one trophy that eludes him and the one he so desperately craves.
For Steven Gerrard not to win the Premier League before the end of his career would be astonishing and would really hurt the man himself.
I admire his loyalty and his insistence of wanting to win it with the club whom he has played for his whole footballing life, making his 500th appearance last weekend, but surely there comes a point when he wants more than a runner-up medal.
Gerrard will be 30 next year and I believe if he does not leave Liverpool now then he will never be able to add the Premier League trophy to his honors list which would be a crying shame.
Don’t get me wrong, the Liverpool captain has an impressive CV with two FA Cups and League Cups apiece, one Champions League and one UEFA cup, as well as two Community Shields and UEFA Super Cups.
But even Gerrard himself has come out and said he would swap all those trophies for the Premier League, a trophy Gerrard or Liverpool have never won since it’s birth in 1992.
He was minutes away from moving to Chelsea in 2005 but at the very last second his heart took over his head and he couldn’t bear to part with his boyhood club. I wonder if he regrets that decision?
If Gerrard had moved south to London, I believe he would have won the Premier League by now but would it mean as much to him, I think it would because he needs that trophy.
You can’t tell me that Gerrard is not jealous of watching his England team mates like Frank Lampard and Wayne Rooney challenging for the title year in year out.
Liverpool’s best chance to win the League was last season and everybody at the club knows that. They were so close at the end and but for home draws to teams such as Stoke City they would have made it.
Gerrard is entering a critical point in his career next year. He is going to South Africa with an England team in their prime and tipped for victory.
If, and it’s a big if, England do come back with the World Cup, will Gerrard want another painful season of domestic failure with Liverpool after the ultimate high?
He has some big decisions to make and if I was him, I would definitely consider the move otherwise the CV will read Premier League runner-up for the rest of his life.
Gary Taylor
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Can understand the logic behind the thinking but would he really leave his beloved Liverpool behind to win the title?
Cant see it working out for him at Chelsea, Lampard and Gerrard never seem to gel for England so why should domestically it be any different?
Which realistically just leaves Manchester United…
And we all know how well Manchester United and Liverpool get along
Can’t see him leaving Liverpool now for another premiership club, he had the chance to go to Chelsea, definitely wouldn’t go to United and unlikely to move to City; as far as the premiership is concerned its likely to be his biggest regret on an otherwise outstanding career