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Steven Gerrard was a lot of things for Liverpool; a captain, a goalscorer, a midfield dynamo, and even an agent - that is according to a former Reds star who says he was tapped up by the man

Jermaine Pennant says Steven Gerrard tapped him up during a match(Image: BPM TIM EASTHOPE)

Jermaine Pennant claims Steven Gerrard tried to tap him up during a match a few months before he joined Liverpool.

And when Gerrard ran over mid-match to ask Pennant who his agent was, he knew the interest was genuine.



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"He [Gerrard] knew I was a good player," Pennant said on talkSPORT.

I was playing against Liverpool and he came running over to me during the game, saying, 'Who's your agent?' I said it was Sky Andrew and that was the last thing he said - I was bamboozled.

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"So I ran over to him and said, 'Do you know him?' At this time, the game is going on.

I'm thinking, 'Why's Steven Gerrard asking me this?'"

Gerrard and Pennant were team-mates were three years at Anfield

Birmingham were in a relegation battle at the time, but that didn't stop Pennant from throwing positional organisation to the wind to ask Gerrard, now 44, a follow-up question.

Why is he peeling off to the left - he plays on the right!' But I've gone off to speak to Steven Gerrard!

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"So I said to him, 'Why, do you know him?' He's gone, 'Nah, nah, nah'.

Then I've said, 'Do you want his number?' So after the game, I phoned my agent and I said, 'Steven Gerrard wants your number.