El-Hadji Diouf Comments on Steven Gerrard Retirement, Time Together at Liverpool

Former Liverpool winger El-Hadji Diouf has re-opened his feud against ex-team-mate Steven Gerrard after giving his views on the English icon’s retirement, going as far to claim the midfielder was “afraid to look” into his eyes. 

In an interview with French broadcaster SFR Sport (h/t MailOnline’s James Dutton), Diouf elaborated upon the rocky relationship he held with Gerrard, as well as another former Anfield team-mate, Jamie Carragher:

People told me at Liverpool, there was some guys you could not touch, but I touched them. That is why it was complicated for me. 

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Stevie G and Jamie Carragher, the two scousers.

When I arrived I showed him he was nothing at all. He was nothing at all. I asked him to tell me in which big competition, Euros or World Cup, people think about him.

The controversial ex-forward appeared on SFR Sport alongside former France and Arsenal midfielder Emmanuel Petit, who drew praise from Diouf due to the fact he won the World Cup in 1998.

The ex-Senegal attacker made clear he admired Gerrard’s ability on the pitch but never saw eye to eye with him off it:

I repeat. I respect the player, very big player, but the man, I do not respect. And I told him, I let him know that. With all my respect I let him know. For me in Liverpool, he was not just a player like …

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