Steven Gerrard is unlikely to return to Liverpool or any other EPL club on loan in January from LA Galaxy, according to Major League Soccer commissioner Don Garber.
The life-long servant to Liverpool football club ended his 17-year long spell at Anfield this summer and moved to the west coast of the United States to Major League Soccer champions Los Angeles Galaxy and already looks settled to his new team and loving the life at one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
Speculations started to circulate when Liverpool chief executive Ian Ayre hinted that a temporary return for the club’s former captain was ‘conceivable’ earlier this year after Gerrard announced his departure from his boyhood club.
Ayre also said at the time that such a move was something he had spoken to Gerrard and his representatives about.
MLS season will end in December unlike European leagues and Garber says that Gerrard may join his former club to train with them to keep himself fit and ready for the next season, but it will not go as far as a loan switch according to him.
Speaking at the Soccerex football business convention in Manchester, Garber told British media: “I don’t think so. And I had not heard that was something that was being contemplated.”
Garber added that he was keen to avoid a repeat of the situation in which David Beckham missed part of the MLS season after being loaned from the Galaxy to AC Milan in 2009.
“It doesn’t happen as much as it used to,” Garber said, referring to such loan arrangements. “David knows very well that I was really upset with the big hoopla and the massive commitment we made and then David went and played in Milan.
“And people in our country said: ‘What? He plays for two teams? And you are trying to build a sport?’
“It was a challenge getting people to understand that.”
Despite Garber’s comments on former England midfielder David Beckham not joining AC Milan on loan in January 2010, Becks joined Milan on loan that term and Liverpool fans will be looking to see the repetition of Garber’s comments being false again.