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Liverpool icon Jamie Carragher has discussed his previous pursuit into coaching before opting for punditry.(Image: The Overlap/YouTube)

Former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher has revealed that he tried coaching and punditry after retiring from professional football.

Former teammates of the defender have moved into punditry with him, while some of those that he shared the Liverpool dressing room have moved into management - including Steven Gerrard and Craig Bellamy.

Since hanging up his boots, Carragher has featured on the likes of ITV for their international coverage.



Now, he features predominantly on Sky Sports for their Premier League coverage and CBS Sports, as part of their Champions League crew.

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The 47-year-old has revealed that he flirted with coaching but ultimately found that it wasn't for him.

"As I got to the end of my career, probably different to Scholesy and I was thinking, 'what do I want to do' so I started doing my coaching badges and at the same summer I went to Euro 2012," he told the Overlap Fan Debate.

"I was still a player so I wanted to try a little bit of both and see what I liked.

I didn't enjoy the coaching and I loved the summer, just being around people talking football.

"I was with Roy [Keane], there was a panel of three pundits but there was four of us and we split the games, Gareth Southgate, Roy Keane, me and Roberto Martinez, the people you're spending time with, chatting in the bar, I enjoyed it, I dipped my toe into both before I finished and went down the punditry route.

"But I do with players coming out of the game, you always want the most successful ones, who have played in the biggest games but they want to do the best games as well - which is normal.

"I don't think the best players, no disrespect, will be at Norwich on a Friday night with the travel, me and Gary were in the zorb balls bashing in to each other."

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Now, Carragher believes the future of punditry with broadcasters such as Sky Sports could look rather different.

He added: "The future of punditry might be 10-game deals, if you notice a lot of people, they don't want to put themselves in one.

"So I when I went in at at Sky, you were with Sky none of this crossover but now it's like people are on Sky, BBC, something else.

"Sky and other companies have almost had to bite the bullet a little bit and just say, 'ok, we accept that people aren't with one team'.