“I think Liam is as good a coach as I’ve ever worked with. He was incredible in his coaching ability. I was more of the manager, dealing with players and everything. So I learned a lot from him from,” Rooney said of his former assistant coach on the BBC’s Wayne Rooney Show

Branded a “golden generation”, Gerrard was part of an immensely talented squad that failed to get beyond the quarter-finals of a major tournament under a number of different managers