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In Steven Gerrard's 2015 autobiography, My Story, the former Liverpool captain gives only fleeting thought to the manager he might one day become.
In one paragraph in the book's fifth chapter, in which he compares the different approaches to man management taken by former Liverpool managers Rafael Benitez and Brendan Rodgers, Gerrard briefly sketches a portrait of the kind of boss he would want to be. "I'd try to fuse the best of Rafa's tactical thinking with Brendan's skill as a man manager," he writes.
Later on, he states that he cannot see himself becoming "a coach who puts up the cones, takes sessions, sets up possessions, shooting practice and all the routine day-to-day drills.