"?Former Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard has suggested that there are no opportunities at this current time to join Jurgen Klopp's backroom staff, despite admitting to remaining in contact with the Reds manager.
The Kop legend taking his UEFA A Licence and keen to enter management after he retires from domestic football come the end of the MLS season in October. However, According to the virtual reality company Laduma, as quoted by the Liverpool Echo, Gerrard has suggested he is happy to see Klopp have success at his boyhood club with his own backroom staff: "People need to understand that Jurgen Klopp is his own man."
"He's got his own team of people around him that he is very happy and content with."
"Of course I've got a huge Liverpool connection and Liverpool is in my heart and always will be but there's nothing to really comment on."
"There's no future decision to work with Klopp, I get on really well with him, we're in contact but there's no job opportunity there at the moment."
Steven Gerrard: I speak to Klopp but there's no job for me at @LFC ... for nowhttps://t.co/OTWo09EWmr pic.twitter.com/CqgKqOCpbf
However, Gerrard has admitted that should he be offered a chance to return to Anfield in the form of a coach, he would be the first one to let the media and the fans know: "If I had something to say I wouldn't keep supporters waiting."
"I'm not the type of person that will keep something under my hat and sort of wait and delay but there is absolutely nothing to say on my future beyond this MLS season at the moment."