Steven Gerrard: We’ll challenge for the title next season!

Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard has admitted that although he is heart broken over losing the title this year, that the team have big plans to perform even better next year.

Gerrard, who helped his squad to a 2-1 victory over Newcastle at home on Sunday, is obviously disappointed that the team missed out to Manchester City in the race for the title. However, he is refusing to be disheartened.

Gerrard said: “I’m absolutely devastated. I can’t sugar-coat this. I’m personally gutted for the fans who have been magnificent.

“But we can’t be too down. It was a fantastic season, but we need to bounce back and go one better.

“It’s taken me until I’m 33 to have the experience of a proper title race so the experience for these young lads in the squad is going to be vital.

“There is a lot of ability in the squad moving forward and hopefully we can keep improving.

“But we have to congratulate Manchester City because they have been the best over the 38 games.”

He went on to say: “The top four was the target and if someone asked me if we would go into the last day of the season in the title race I wouldn’t have believed them.

“Our target was the top four all the way through. But after going on the run of 11 wins, we started believing.

“We gave it our best shot. Unfortunately we fell short of that.

“If that point at Crystal Palace or the win today had got us into the top four then we would be celebrating for weeks now.”

Despite Skrtl’s own-goal after 20-minutes of play, the Redmen fought back, securing two Second half goals from Daniel Agger and Daniel Sturridge

Rodgers firmly backed Gerrards comments saying: “Now we have got the belief.

“We will get better. We are a young group. We will add more players. We have got a lot of young players who will be better for it.

“I think there is huge potential once you add players to it. Some of the clubs around us have got world class, top players.

“We will definitely strengthen and we will be better next season. We’ve scored more than 100 goals which is remarkable.

“We will come back and be mentally and tactically and technically ready. We would prefer to finish top but we’ve finished just behind City.”





