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All the latest news and analysis from Anfield on the Liverpool Echo's dedicated LFC Facebook pageSpeaking to TNT Sports, Gerrard said: "He's been given a really key role. I think he'll have a big boost being back in Spain tonight, back where he's from.
At the same time, he's got to connect Arsenal's play. He's got a pivotal role.”Zubimendi is the fourth failed transfer Gerrard has mourned.
I coached Villa against West Ham before he went to Arsenal, I didn't realise how big he was because hadn't met him in person."You get in the tunnel and think, 'oh my god, that's some profile for a midfielder'. He was calm in possession, an animal out of it, up and down, I really like him as a person as well."I think he's really getting into that class where he's becoming a world class midfielder.
