Get Millie on our books…whoever the new manager…it could be him…get him…and make him one of the new BOOT ROOM boys…please…
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I just accidentally read “Boom Boom Boys”—whatever that’s supposed to mean—AND wondered who on earth you were referring to.
Time to clean my glasses.
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Millie is the one player I’d love to see return in a coaching capacity.
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It’s not a term I like, but getting Milner back as a coach is “ a no brainer”. Make it happen.
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Can you imagine the wealth of playing experience in the PL that he has?! And his own fitness management? Would be a rockstar coach IMO!
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Iraola is just a decoy, we’re really bring Milner back as manager 
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Would be really sensible to reach out to him, but he may want a break at this point.
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Doesn’t sound like Milly. He’s probably hoping to be first through the gates at Kirkby this summer to win back his lactate test record.
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What an absolute credit to the game Milly was as a player. He’s made for management in the future, that I’m certain.
Any team under his watch will be incredibly hard working.
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What an illustrious career Milly has.
We need him at our club asap.
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https://x.com/eddiegibbs/status/2061441253292597688
Milner retires at 40 as Liverpool coaching calls grow louder
James Milner being offered another year at Brighton and choosing not to take it feels entirely in keeping with the man.
There’s no vanity in it, no attempt to squeeze one more season out of a body that has already given football 24 of them. He’d already broken the Premier League appearance record, helped Brighton back into Europe, and reached 40, still looking like a man offended by the idea of easing off. Now he’s stepped away.
That’s very Milner. He built his career on standards, usefulness, discipline, and the stubborn refusal to be anything less than fully prepared.
For me, he defined the term “utility player.” Not the spare part, not the lesser name on the teamsheet, but the footballer who could become whatever the team required. Full back, winger, central midfielder, closer, starter, leader, runner, organiser. Never the star, but always the man a manager could trust.
He feels like a throwback to a bygone age, the type who would still be impossible to speak to a day or two after a defeat. More sports competitor than footballer, really. A man who seemed to treat losing as a personal insult.
Now the obvious thought is Liverpool. Get him back in the building, on the grass, around the young lads, driving the standards. Not for nostalgia, but because some habits are worth passing on.
Milner end his playing days as one of the great professionals of the Premier League era, proof that longevity is more to do with character than luck.
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May not be the assistant coach for the first team right away, but bring him in for the youth team development, the promote to 1st team after a couple of years?
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I’m pretty sure he (alongside a few others, like Lallana from what I know) already completed a few badges in his time here.
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Normally, I’m not ever one to look at celebrities/athletes as role models. But Milner would be a perfect example of what one should be. It makes so much sense to have him guiding the kids, perhaps a lot of the adults too going by this season. He would not have accepted the laid back culture that arose at the club over the last year.
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My favourite Milner memory that kind of sums up his career was not even when he played for us, it was when he played against us in the famous Coutinho winner game in 2014. He started on the bench and watched as his City side got absolutely dominated by a rampant liverpool who started the second half 2-0 up. Seeing no improvement in his team after half time Pellegrini threw Milner on just a couple of minutes into the second half and the game turned immediately with Milner become the most important player on the pitch. They got themselves level within about 20 minutes of Milly’s introduction and looked the side most likely to get the winner. Obviously they went on to lose anyway, but through no fault of his. He showed his importance yet in a textbook example of how under appreciated he often was he immediately made way in the next game for one of City’s bigger flashier names.
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Millie was,and is a class act,
Now that he has retired we could do a lot worse than having him on the staff..
He exemplifies giving 100%.
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I’ve got two, one not so complimentary of him but hilarious anyway.
The other epitomises his indomitable spirit
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