Aston Villa manager Steven Gerrard has revealed the words of advice he got from Jurgen Klopp when he was starting as a coach.
Gerrard was coaching at the Liverpool academy in 2017, spending 18 months working under the German who is still leading Liverpool to success.
Gerrard, a club icon and a successful manager at Rangers in Scotland, says that he had a very open and frank relationship with Klopp.
"I was open with Jurgen, he was open with me," Gerrard told Gary Neville on The Overlap.
"I said to him 'go on, what do you see from ex players that have been in the game?' and he said he sees so many players who've had good careers and automatically think they can go into the coaching side and they'll be a success.
"For me the key is going back to the beginning, taking your team at a level where there's no careers and making mistakes. He said he makes tonnes of mistakes every day - I said it doesn't look like it.
"But he said taking the U18 team here, don't take the U23s because I give and take players. Take your own team, play your own way, your own system, try things, it doesn't matter. I think that 18 months gave me the confidence that I could take a job like Rangers, I probably took that too soon."
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