As Roberto Firmino leaves his club, Steven Gerrard's new problem in Saudi Arabia

Everything seems to indicate that Steven Gerrard's coaching project in the Saudi Pro-League with the Al Ettifaq team is not going as he had hoped and imagined, and the poor results have forced the coach to talk urgently with the high command of the institution in order to ask for a couple of reinforcements to help the situation of the group.

To understand how bad it has been for Gerrard in recent weeks, it is enough to mention that his team has not been able to win in eight games played in almost two months, occupying eighth place in the overall table, being far from their goal that they had set at the beginning of the campaign, which was to fight for the title at all times.

It seems that Gerrard is not happy even though the institution has spent a lot of money to bring in players such as Jordan Henderson, Georginio Wijnaldum, Demarai Gray, Jack Hendry and Moussa Dembele, asking the Anfield legend for more investment to return them to the fight for the top places, being this request complicated as it has been mentioned on more than one occasion the possibility that Steven will soon be dismissed from his position as Al Ettihad coach.

This bad season that Steven Gerrard is having with Al Ettihad is showing the bad moment that this coach is going through, not being yet fully capable of taking the reins of a team that, despite not being relevant at world level, has aspirations to be one of the clubs with the best investment of figures in the Saudi Pro League, failing the former midfielder in this first attempt, generating great losses to the club that through the bad results is that it has ceased to be supported by its fans every time they play at home.

Gerrard facing last chance in Arabia

With only one game left in 2023 for Gerrard and his players, the coach is already looking ahead to the second half of the Saudi Pro League season, hoping that the squad can grow with another couple of big signings, but it is a risky bet that if he cannot improve even with the new recruits, He will come off very badly as a coach, not having a place in many places after having failed in a place where football is supposed to be just developing, and it should not be a great challenge for someone so experienced who lived great times with Liverpool.