Aston Villa travel to Anfield on December 11 in the Premier League; When gotten some information about his desires for carrying accomplishment to Villa Park, Steven Gerrard said: “Long haul I figure the club might want to be back on an European level”

Steven Gerrard needs Aston Villa to play in European club contests again and has subdued any promotion encompassing his previous club Liverpool by saying his new position isn’t a “stepping stone” to managing at Anfield.

In his first question and answer session as Villa supervisor in front of the club’s conflict with Brighton on Saturday, the previous Rangers manager said it was an “honor” to have taken up the job and feels “amazingly pleased” to be a lead coach in the Premier League.

His first task will be to redress the club’s helpless run of structure, with the now-Norwich lead coach Dean Smith having been sacked after five sequential losses with Villa two points over the relegation places.

After games against Crystal Palace (November 27), Manchester City (December 1) and Leicester City (December 5), the Liverpool legend will make a trip to Anfield to confront Jurgen Klopp’s side on December 11, yet Gerrard rushed to quietness any fervor encompassing a re-visitation of his previous club.

Gerrard said: “as far as Liverpool, again I don’t figure this public interview ought to be about some other club however Aston Villa, I think we need to recognize our allies.

“I think everyone knows all around the world what Liverpool means to me but my focus is very much on Aston Villa. I’ve said that I am all-in and I can promise our supporters that that’s the case.

“I think first and foremost it’s an extremely proud moment from a personal point of you, it’s a real honour to be the manager of this football club.”

Probably the best player in Premier League history, Gerrard gets back to the English first class league six years in the wake of calling time on his retirement at Liverpool, for whom he showed up somewhere in the range of 1998 and 2015.

He has recently spoken with regards to his fantasy to deal with his childhood club one day.

Resolving questions again about his longstanding relationship with one of Villa’s first class equals, Gerrard said: “Everybody knows all throughout the planet how Liverpool affects me however my emphasis is on Aston Villa.

“You will never hear me say that it is a ‘stepping stone’ [to managing Liverpool]. For me, I am really proud and honoured to be in this position.

“I am all-in. I will give this job everything that it needs for it to be a success. I will be 100 per cent committed and I don’t think there’s anything wrong in football to have dreams and aspirations.

“They have got a world-class coach who they are very happy with. If he was to sign a lifetime deal right now, I would be very happy for them and him.”

Villa, European Cup champs in 1981/82 and Super Cup victors a year after, last arrived at the knockout phases of an European club competition in 2009 under Martin O’Neill when he coached them to the UEFA Cup Round of 32.

While Gerrard demonstrated that further improving the Villa’s league position is his main goal, the new lead coach demands the club can satisfy its potential at a mainland level later on.

Gerrard joined Villa following three-and-a-half years at Rangers, who he says he left with a “weighty heart” in the wake of finishing Celtic’s nine-year rule as Scottish Premiership champions.

“I don’t think it’s the right time now to put any specific date on that but for me more importantly it’s about focusing on the short-term which is Brighton at the weekend, we need to start winning football matches again and moving up the table.

“We’ve got a challenging game at the weekend so I don’t really want to look too far ahead of that, but with the players we have got in the squad, we should be higher than where we are.

“So it’s one step at a time and we need that win as soon as possible.”

Notwithstanding feeling bitterness towards leaving Ibrox, Gerrard concedes the chance to oversee in the English first class was too nice to even consider turning down.

The 41-year-old said: “Albeit the last seven to 10 days have gone very rapidly, it’s been a truly cheerful time for me in light of the fact that the chance to be back in the Premier League and the chance to be near my family were the two principle motivations behind why this was the right move for me.

“I pretty much knew what I was going to do because I knew it was the right move for me. The chance to be back in the Premier League, the best league in the world, to compete against the best coaches, against some of the best players. I’ve missed the Premier League and it’s great to be back.

“I think we’ve got a fantastic academy here, some fantastic staff that are doing a good job there. I have looked in from afar with the U23s side and the youth teams and they’re full of talent.”

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