"The position is not the issue. When you are a young player breaking through you want to play in your favourite position, you are desperate to get into the team," said Gerrard.
"But I am 26 now, I have to think of the team first. If the manager needs me to do a job on the right or the left I have got to accept it.
"He knows where I would like to play but I also understand that there is a job to be done for the team and I need to do what the manager wants me to do.
"I have heard he has said the order of priority is "team, club, supporters, players" and I agree with that. It is not about individual players, it is about the team.
"Last season we finished third in the league and we got 82 points, a club record, and we won the FA Cup. And 75% of the time I played on the right."