Jurgen Klopp is ‘pretty sure’ that Steven Gerrard will rejoin Liverpool following his decision to retire from football.
Gerrard called time on a trophy-laden career which spanned almost two decades earlier today that came 18 months after he ended his association with Anfield.
A potential return to the Reds has regularly been mooted for the 36-year-old but Klopp insists that no talks over a prospective role are currently in the works.
However the Liverpool manager expects Gerrard to someday link up with his boyhood club again.
He said: “I am only here 14 months so how could I be the person to say how big these people are or how it is to live with legends at Liverpool?”
“I’ve met a few, and I’ve met Stevie already and he is far away from wanting to be a legend. It is nice having him around. It is good to hear he is back in town.
“[As for] all the rest, we will see. This is not the room to speak about it. When something is announced then we will talk.
“It is clear that one day in the future there will something to announce, that is pretty sure too, but until then there is nothing to say.”
Gerrard spent time at the Melwood training ground during the MLS off-season last year and was regularly seen in conversation with Klopp during that time.
But the Liverpool manager insists that the option of returning to his former club remains and has reiterated that the door will remain open to him at Anfield.
“Steven Gerrard [scored] 186 goals – each goal is a story,” added Klopp.
“The first thing that you should all maybe learn, if someone wants to help Steven Gerrard – stop being so excited about each next step he’s doing.
“For everything in life, you need the room and space to jump in, to do something and learn something new.
“If he’s retiring as a player, then the next thing that he will do is new. If you want, he was a young player and now he is a young whatever.
“There’s nothing to talk about and I’m the absolutely wrong person to tell anything about it because maybe all of you know him better than I do.
“What I said before is that the door is always open for him, from our side.
“If he wants to make whichever career different to his former career, then we want to help him. That’s how it is, but nothing else to say.”