Steven George Gerrard MBE (born 30 May 1980) is an English professional football manager and former player who manages Scottish Premiership club Rangers.
He spent the majority of his playing career as a central midfielder for Liverpool, with most of that time spent as club captain, as well as captaining the England national team. Widely regarded as one of the greatest midfielders of all time,
Gerrard was awarded the UEFA Club Footballer of the Year award in 2005, and the Ballon d'Or Bronze Award. In 2009, Zinedine Zidane and Pelé said that they considered Gerrard to be the best footballer in the world.
Celtic business smarts to seal Kyogo deal saluted as former striker loves message it sends
dailyrecord.co.ukThe way Scott McDonald sees it is very simple.If you suddenly find yourself swimming in a deep pool of Saudi oil money, then you might as well buy yourself something nice with it.
Like a pair of golden handcuffs for the most important player you have left. And that’s precisely what Celtic did yesterday morning when, before Al-Ittihad’s millions had even dropped into the bank account, the club had announced that star striker and talisman Kyogo Furuhashi had been tied down on a new four year contract.“Look, it’s smart business by Celtic,’ McDonald said as he looked back on a tumultuous few days and weeks in Glasgow’s east end from his new home on Australia’s Gold Coast.
News travels fast. The former Parkhead poacher went on: “They’ve taken some of the money they’ve brought in from Jota’s sale and the first thing they’ve done with it is use it to protect a player who is arguably their next biggest asset.
What they are saying here is that, ‘We can’t let another one go!’.“I’m sure that’ll come as a relief to the fans who have been left reeling a little bit by seeing Jota follow Ange Postecoglou out of the door.
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