Author of Fergusons book and journalist for The Telegraph, Paul Hayward, looked to clarify some of the comments made about the Liverpool captain. Hayward said: He (Ferguson) likes him, because he tried to buy him around the time that it looked as if Gerrard was going to leave Anfield and probably go to Chelsea. Manchester United made a show for him, as Sir Alex Ferguson describes it, so he wanted him in a Manchester United shirt and that shows he rates him. The discussion about whether he was a top, top player was in the context of Michael Carrick and why he didnt get many caps for England, because Gerrard and Lampard were more dominant personalities and had more bravado, as Ferguson put it. He was saying he was an extremely good player, a top player. But what he meant by hes not a top, top player was that hes a not a Zinedine Zidane; he was talking on the world level, he wasnt disparaging Steven Gerrard remotely. If Brendan Rodgers had actually read the chapter before getting drawn in to those questions in the press conference, he might of spotted that and realised that actually, Ferguson does rate him. He was saying hes a good player, an extremely good high-class Premier League player but that hes not in the world elite and whether you agree with that or not thats an opinion and it seems to have provoked this fury on Merseyside, some of which was directed at me! >>Yash Punkrocker
Posted on: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 05:58:33 +0000
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