Just a fort night ahead of the prestigious Champions league game between defending champions and five time winners of the cup, Real Madrid coach has some glimmering words about Liverpool skipper.
Ancelotti who managed Milan for eight years, winning two Champions league with the side as come out ahead of his teams fixture against the Mersey side club, saying he wanted to pair Steven Gerrard and Andrea Pirlo in the middle of the field and even tried to persuade him leave Liverpool, but his love for Liverpool was exchangeable.
Ancelotti said:
“Gerrard’s a leader. A great player, the most important figure that Liverpool have. He is the Paolo Maldini of Liverpool.
“He’s one of the players I would have loved to have coached. And I thought about him so many times in the past when I was at Milan.
“But it was impossible because he was very much linked with Liverpool. We had sounded him out but Gerrard’s bond with Liverpool was unbreakable.
“I don’t remember exactly what year it was but we did try. Of course, I wanted to pair him up with Pirlo, it was a fantastic combination. Putting Gerrard in midfield with Pirlo, it would have been fantastic.”
It would have been a dream partnership with Pirlo's vision and distribution and Gerrard's hard tackling and athleticism in the midfield that could have been a midfield which the any team would have envied. But both the men are of utmost honour and grace persuading them to leave their loved things, is a hard as it gets.
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