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title: "Evans: Liverpool should have kept Gerrard"
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language: "en-GB"
author: "Ste Hoare"
section: "Liverpool News"
published: "2015-06-10T09:23:08Z"
modified: "2015-06-10T10:22:28Z"
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# Evans: Liverpool should have kept Gerrard

Former Liverpool manager Roy Evans thinks his old club should have done more to keep Steven Gerrard.

The former captain left Anfield for Los Angeles at the end of the season but Evans thinks the midfielder “*still has a lot to offer*“.

Speaking to *Sky Sports News,* Evans said: “*I’m talking as a supporter now and I think they should have tried hard to keep Steven. People say they offered him half the contract he had. He gave up England to play for Liverpool but Brendan Rodgers didn’t play him in the Real Madrid game, Man U game, all the big games, he sort of left him out*.”

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He continued: “*People say he is getting older but for me he still has a lot to offer. I think Liverpool has to forget about the potential in many ways and they have to get players who know they are going to do the job. We have a great academy with a lot of lads with good potential coming through the academy and we have to look at them sometimes*.

“*Jordon Ibe and people like that have signed a contract so hopefully with a mixture of some experience and some younger kids we’ll have a better squad and at least a better attacking option. Throughout the season, Daniel Sturridge has been injured for most of the time and sometimes Brendan has played without a striker which has been very difficult for the fans to take*.”