But people are changing their opinions of him for a comment he made about Rafa? Really?
He's still my favorite ever player and the reason I started supporting Liverpool.
But I could hazard a guess: Gerrard's made no secret of him wanting to manage. Quotes like the ones he provides give a bit of insight into his football mind, which like I said in another thread, go much more in the way of a Tim Sherwood, than a good manager ("get stuck in" philosophy, emotion over reason, etc.)... some people could be worried about that, if he intends to manage Liverpool!
What Hodgson, Houllier, and Rodgers have had in common, in a way, is that they all catered, generally, to Gerrard's wishes (in regards of where to play him and when). Benitez didn't, yet he was the one who proved to be the most successful of them all. I'm not sure how to explain it well, but it seems to me with the latest and also with past comments, he always kinda acknowledges Benitez but goes right ahead to praise the other three much more. He accepts he was more successful with Benitez but then he makes a point in saying he thought he was better as a CM (notwithstanding how much more productive he was on the right wing or as a pseudo-second striker in 2006 or 2008).
I posted a lot about not liking Stevie in his apparently favorite (at the time) deep-lying playmaker role for his last seasons (due to his lack of legs to do the required defensive work)... Rodgers put him there and that probably meant for him "great man-managing skills", mmm ...
anyway, my opinion