Steven Gerrard comments on Brendan Rodgers speak volumes after Celtic exit

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Steven Gerrard once confessed that his departure from Liverpool was influenced by Brendan Rodgers, and he was devastated when the manager left just a few months later. A decade after being dismissed by Liverpool, Rodgers has stepped down as Celtic boss.

However, Rodgers' role in Gerrard's exit left a sour taste in the mouth of the legendary Reds captain, as Rodgers had told him he wouldn't be a first-team regular if he stayed at the club beyond the 2014/15 season, reports the Mirror. His exit occurred merely months before Jürgen Klopp's arrival at Anfield, who revolutionised Liverpool's trajectory.

Steven Gerrard left Liverpool under Brendan Rodgers (Image: Getty) "But obviously being under Brendan's management at the time, I was getting told my game time was gonna get less and less. "But in hindsight, if I'd have known what was gonna come off, 100 per cent, I'd have signed the year extension, and I'd have put up with four to five months of Brendan to get six months of Klopp, for sure." Rodgers has now departed Celtic with immediate effect, after the club's principal shareholder Dermot Desmond unleashed a scathing critique of the manager following his resignation.