On this day in 1998: How Steven Gerrard’s Man Utd trial years earlier paved the way for first Liverpool contract

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Liverpool legend Steven Gerrard put pen to paper on his first professional contract 28 years ago today. Arguably Liverpool’s greatest ever player, Gerrard is a Red through and through.

Credit: Visionhaus/Getty Images Gerrard has told the story of his United trial on many occasions, but on the anniversary of his commitment to Liverpool, it’s worth revisiting the decision that might have changed everything. Steven Gerrard explains why he went on trial at Man United It seems an odd choice for a Scouser, a boyhood Liverpool fan, to want to go to United.

I looked around other clubs partly to pressure Liverpool into giving me a YTS contract.”He did get that Youth Training Scheme contract, and three years later he signed a full professional deal to keep him at Anfield. Who is the bigger Liverpool legend, Salah or Gerrard?