Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher has revealed that he advised his former team-mate Steven Gerrard to take up the Rangers manager's job as he believed there was no better place than Ibrox to start a career in management.
The 38-year-old kicked off his career as a senior side manager from 1st June at Rangers and has overhauled the squad at Ibrox.
The Gers have enjoyed a good start under the Liverpool legend and are yet to lose this season, having progressed through to the group stage of the Europa League.
Carragher insists that once the offer from Rangers arrived and Gerrard asked him about his opinion, he at once told him to take it because the environment would suit him.
"When Stevie told me about the offer from Rangers I said, ‘take it’. There is no ideal place to accept your first job", Carragher wrote in his column for the Telegraph.
"Start near the bottom and people say you do not know enough about the lower leagues. Start at the top and you don’t have the experience for a big job.
"What you have to understand about Steven Gerrard is he lives for that high pressured, football environment.
"I don’t see him leading smaller championship or League One clubs, but an institution with 50,000 passionate fans filling the stadium every week? That is his world.
"Glasgow is perfect for him."
