Steven Gerrard back at Liverpool, trains with the first team

Gerrard with current Liverpool Manager Jurgen Klopp at the Melwood training center

Steven Gerrard made his return to the former club Liverpool to train at their Melwood training ground for the first time since joining the MLS club LA Galaxy in the summer. The Kop legend got a warm welcome from his old teammates and the new manager Jurgen Klopp at Melwood, reports the Mirror.

The talismanic Merseyside midfielder parted ways with his boyhood club after 27 years, in 2015, after announcing an 18-month deal with LA Galaxy worth around £4m a year. Gerrard later claimed he would not have left Liverpool over the summer if he had been offered the chance to join then manager, Brendan Rodgers’s backroom team. Although on his temporary return to the club, when speculated, Gerrard ruled out a return to a playing role with Liverpool and insisted he was back only to train at Melwood during the MLS close season.

Earlier, Red’s manager Klopp also ruled out any suggestion of Gerrard rejoining in a playing role, saying: “He’s a Liverpool legend, of course, but his contract as I know is in the USA. But now his break starts and I told him: ‘When you are here, of course, you can come whenever you want, you can train with us if you think it is good for you. Of course our doors are always open for him, that is clear.”

Gerrard beamed with joy while talking about training with his old club under Klopp, “I'm very excited to go in, obviously I've been there for a very long time and I've come out for a short period but I'm looking forward to be going into the new set-up, to having a look at what Klopp's all about tactically, what he demands of his players and how much he's changed since the Brendan [Rodgers] era.

“You just watch him in those interviews and you just love watching him. He's got that infectious personality and I'm excited to go and spend some time with him.” Gerrard said.

Watch Gerrard with former teammates and Klopp