I played with Steven Gerrard but thought Liverpool icon's team-mate was a more likely manager

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In the latest episode of The Managers, Mick McCarthy and Tony Pulis sat down with the shot-stopper and gained his views on some of his former teammates.When Pulis asked which colleague struck him as having the qualities to go into management, Foster paused before he said: "I don't know, I'm just trying to think if there's any that actually went on to be like fully-fledged managers of that sort of team."Obviously, Frank Lampard was in the team at that time as well. You could always see he was a very clever guy.

Yeah, you could see it with Frank."When Gerrard's name arose, the former Manchester United star was quick to confess he didn't envisage a route to management for the legendary Liverpool midfielder. Foster said: "I wouldn't have ever thought that maybe he would have gone into management."Yeah, I never thought he'd go into management.

You could always see he was [obsessed] but they were all football obsessed, though at the same time so maybe you could [see it]. I've grown up with players who couldn't really be bothered to watch the telly, if there's a game on, it's just like [oh well], but you get other players that when there's a game on, they're not even talking to you."They're not looking at the phone, they're actually looking at the [TV] and they're analysing the game of what's actually going on."While Gerrard enjoyed his greatest success in Scotland at Rangers, the former Red also had periods at Aston Villa and Al-Ettifaq.