I've coached with Pep Lijnders and Steven Gerrard - former Liverpool assistant is best I've seen

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So no, I was not really surprised because I think maybe if you're looking at it, during Guardiola's time at Manchester City, I think Jurgen was the one... They're both wanting to play attractive football."I think he's had one or two goals at management and I think it's two different things.

And I think Pep's realised that his skill set is as a coach."Yet despite Lijnders' time at Liverpool, McAllister is confident that it will not put the Reds at a disadvantage when they travel to City on Sunday,"I think coaches' knowledge of opponents and players and stuff, and the size of the analysis teams are massive," he said. But I think that's prevalent in the Premier League this year.

He's got 14, 15 goals already and I think the nearest to him and his team is one or two."I think there's four or five players who have scored one goal, so that suggests to me that they're looking for Haaland a little bit earlier."While Lijnders returned to the dugout with Man City, McAllister’s coaching career has remained on hold since leaving Aston Villa in October 2022.The Scot served as assistant manager to Liverpool legend Steven Gerrard with both Rangers and Aston Villa, but ultimately declined the opportunity to link up with his former team-mate in Saudi Arabia.Gerrard had been in talks about a return to Rangers as manager last month, only to decline the opportunity, with McAllister revealing talks never got as far as him being sounded out himself over possibly linking up again as number two.But he is confident that Gerrard will return to management when the time is right, and is open to the prospect of joining his coaching staff again in the future."I'm never presumptuous, but there was no (call about Rangers)," he revealed. But as you know, I'm very close to Steven."I've seen a few of his recent interviews, and obviously speaking to him over the last couple of years when he was over in Saudi, I don't think he's lost the hunger to go back in."I can see it in his eye as well.