A penny for Steven Gerrard’s thoughts right now. The former Liverpool captain will have seen the news that Jürgen Klopp is stepping down as Reds manager at the end of this season and felt a flutter in the pit of his stomach: the position he’s always craved, at last, vacant.
Yet a post that once seemed destined to go to the former England captain is now odds-on to go to his former midfield partner at Anfield, Xabi Alonso. The Spaniard was still managing Real Sociedad’s B team when Gerrard was lifting the Scottish title with Rangers - seemingly lightyears behind his old friend in the running for one of Europe’s top jobs. But the tortoise appears to have caught the hare.
