Steven Gerrard thought so.In fact, the Rangers manager, then just a 20-year-old beginning to make his mark at Liverpool, couldn’t believe Gerard Houllier was bringing McAllister to Anfield in the summer of 2000.In his autobiography, Gerrard said: “He seemed an odd buy,.“Okay, he was once a terrific midfielder for Leeds and Scotland but McAllister was now 35, his best days surely behind him… I rang my agent, Struan Marshall, who knew McAllister well. ‘Stru, what’s all this about?’, I asked.“‘Don’t worry, Stevie’, replied Struan, ‘Gary Mac will be brilliant for Liverpool and for you as well.
Listen to him. Learn from him’.“‘Sod off, Stru’, I said. ‘McAllister can learn off me!’ How wrong I was.”McAllister knew he had a lot to prove.
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