

Jermain Defoe has also remained with Rangers, having joined Gerrard’s backroom staff in the summer by agreeing a new one-year playing contract with the ‘Gers but starting his own coaching career as player-coach. While there has been no word of if he is leaving Rangers, Dr Waller did previously work at Villa as club doctor under Houllier. Mark Waller was appointed club doctor at Rangers in July 2018, having held such a post at Anfield for most of the nineties and noughties. Sign up here - it only takes a few seconds!

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Get all the latest Liverpool breaking news, team news, transfer rumours, injury updates plus analysis of what's next for the Reds. However, the Liverpool connection does not end there, with a couple of other former Reds employees serving at Ibrox during Gerrard’s three-year reign. With all of them but McAllister leaving Liverpool to join Gerrard at Rangers, and now following him to Villa Park, you can assume they would remain part of his backroom team if the Reds legend ever made a managerial return to Anfield. On Saturday, Villa confirmed the appointment of the quintet, with McAllister and Beale named as assistant head coaches, Culshaw installed as technical coach, Scott Mason appointed lead analyst, and Milsom handed the position of head of fitness and conditioning. Meanwhile, Scott Mason joined Rangers’ analysis team from Liverpool the following summer in 2019, and has also made the move to the West Midlands. READ MORE: Inside major Liverpool changes after FSG mistake that led to anger and apologies

STEVEN GERRARD: Reds legend names five former Liverpool coaches in Aston Villa backroom staff READ MORE: Arsenal striker 'open' to exit amid Liverpool transfer rumours Gerrard also lured Michael Beale, Tom Culshaw and Jordan Milsom to Rangers from Liverpool when stepping down from his post as Under-18s manager, with the trio taking up roles as first-team coach, technical coach and head of performance, and they have now all followed him to Villa Park. Now chief executive at Aston Villa chief executive, boyhood Liverpool fan Purslow couldn’t resist the temptation to bring Gerrard to Villa Park and reunite with the former midfielder, having served as managing director at Anfield back during the former England international’s playing days in the final year of Tom Hicks and George Gillett’s doomed ownership of the club, along with FSG’s opening months in charge.īut the Liverpool connection in the West Midlands does not end there following confirmation of Gerrard’s backroom staff at Villa Park, with five of his team at Ibrox joining him in making the move south of the border.įormer Reds midfielder and first-team coach Gary McAllister was named as Rangers’ assistant manager following Gerrard’s appointment in 2018, and has now returned to Villa Park having served in the same role under Gerard Houllier in 2010/11. Having led Rangers to the Scottish Premiership title last season, ending Celtic’s 10-in-a-row hopes in the process, the Reds legend decided it was time to take his first Premier League managerial steps when Christian Purslow came calling. Steven Gerrard might have just taken over as Aston Villa manager, but that’s not going to stop speculation linking him with the Liverpool job in future.
