5 best players to move from Europe to MLS

#3 Steven Gerrard

Los Angeles Galaxy Training & Press Conference

Steven Gerrard’s career will be forever associated with Liverpool. He spent 17 years with his boyhood club, scoring 120 league goals for the Reds in a spell that spanned over 500 games, earning him the Champions League in 2005.

By the time he moved to the LA Galaxy, though, he was past his 35th birthday and would spend little more than a year with the Californian outfit.

He was hastily integrated into the team barely a month after the end of the 2014-15 Premier League season, featuring in a friendly on July 11 against Club America before his competitive bow came just three days later in a US Open Cup quarter-final loss to Real Salt Lake.

His MLS debut could scarcely have gone any better as he scored one and laid on another as LA beat the San Jose Earthquakes 5-2, though he would find the net only once more before the end of the season.

Gerrard would last only one further season in America, having struggled to cope with the extensive travel times and dramatically varying climate that the league posed.

He is another who went to the US expecting riches in terms of trophies but could not deliver, despite an All-Star game appearance in 2015.