Steven Gerrard believes a move to Liverpool has provided Stewart Downing with the perfect stage on which to showcase his undoubted talent.
The Reds spent big in order to lure the winger away from Premier League rivals Aston Vila over the summer, with £20million invested in a player they hope will flourish on Merseyside. Downing has made a quiet start to life at Anfield and is yet to hit the heights he scaled so impressively at Middlesbrough and Villa.
There have, however, been signs of late that he is starting to find his feet, with an impressive performance put in while donning the colours of England in a friendly date with Sweden on Tuesday.
He will now be looking to transfer that form onto the domestic stage, and his captain at club level is confident the 27-year-old will prove to be a shrewd acquisition for Liverpool. Gerrard told LFC Magazine: "I think the move was perfect for him at this point of his career. He was the star at Middlesbrough and I think he moved up to Villa and proved he could be one of the best players in the league.
"I think at the age he's at it was perfect for him to sign for us. I felt he was a player we needed and that we were a club he needed to be at. He now has a platform here to prove over the next five or six years that he's one of the best players in the league. He can really nail down that left-side role and make it his own."
The Reds spent big in order to lure the winger away from Premier League rivals Aston Vila over the summer, with £20million invested in a player they hope will flourish on Merseyside. Downing has made a quiet start to life at Anfield and is yet to hit the heights he scaled so impressively at Middlesbrough and Villa.
There have, however, been signs of late that he is starting to find his feet, with an impressive performance put in while donning the colours of England in a friendly date with Sweden on Tuesday.
He will now be looking to transfer that form onto the domestic stage, and his captain at club level is confident the 27-year-old will prove to be a shrewd acquisition for Liverpool. Gerrard told LFC Magazine: "I think the move was perfect for him at this point of his career. He was the star at Middlesbrough and I think he moved up to Villa and proved he could be one of the best players in the league.
"I think at the age he's at it was perfect for him to sign for us. I felt he was a player we needed and that we were a club he needed to be at. He now has a platform here to prove over the next five or six years that he's one of the best players in the league. He can really nail down that left-side role and make it his own."
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