Richard Keys has told Steven Gerrard to stay away from Liverpool if he still has hopes of managing in the Premier League.
The Reds icon wore the No 8 shirt one more time as Liverpool Legends beat Celtic 2-0 in a charity match on Friday.
Gerrard scored the first goal of the game from the penalty spot, and then taunted Celtic fans who threw bottles and coins at the former Rangers boss.
The 42-year-old has been out of work since he was sacked by Aston Villa in October, and former Sky Sports host Keys believes he needs to stay away from the Reds if he still has hopes of managing in the Premier League.
In a blog posted to his website on Monday, he wrote: 'If Gerrard still has ambitions to manage/coach in the PL I really think he should be swerving the legends games - the likes of which we saw at Anfield last weekend.
'Gerrard needs to distance himself from Liverpool for a few years more yet. One of his biggest problems at Villa was that their fans largely saw him as Liverpool's captain.
'It was ok to start with - Gerrard said all the right things. But as time progressed and things weren't going so well, it was an easy stick to beat him with - even though he'd had those two years at Rangers as well.'
Gerrard sent Celtic keeper Artur Boruc the wrong way during the charity game after Martin Skrtel was brought down in the box.
He gleefully celebrated in front of the Celtic fans who made their feelings known towards the former manager of their cross-city rivals - with one fan seeming to throw his green and white Celtic shirt in his direction.
Keys has criticised Gerrard, saying that even if he received stick from Celtics fans beforehand, he is a 'big boy' and should know it's part of the job.
He wrote: 'Perhaps he's given up believing that he's got a coaching career, but if he hasn't, I firmly believe he's definitely got to give those games up. Either way - he shouldn't be taunting Celtic fans as he did after scoring.
'I know it's hard and I know they'd been on at him all through the game - but he's a big boy and he knows it's all part of the gig.
'Those fans had paid their money to charity (the players always get paid btw) and so they had a right to get involved in the occasion.'
During Gerrard's time at Rangers, he led them to the Scottish Premiership title in 2021, ending years of dominance by Celtic.
Since his departure from Aston Villa, he has been regularly seen as a pundit or associated with Liverpool where he made 500 appearances between 1998 and 2015.
Gerrard's love for Liverpool is as evident as ever, and he recently worked with the club's channel for an interview with current star Mohamed Salah.
Liverpool Legends went 2-0 up shortly after the break against Celtic Legends when Chilean Mark Gonzalez doubled the hosts' advantage at Anfield, and that was how the result remained.
The LFC Foundation charity match was played to raise funds for the foundation and its partner charities, funding programmes across schools, inclusive sports, social action, health, wellbeing, and food poverty.