Former Reds striker El Hadji Diouf again slammed former
team-mate Steven Gerrard after the Liverpool great announced his
retirement.
Gerrard, 36, announced on Thursday he was retiring from professional football and Diouf, who spent two seasons at Liverpool and has criticised the midfielder previously, didn’t hesitate to launch missiles at him again.
"When I arrived, I showed him that he was nothing," Diouf told SFR Sport.
"I asked him, 'What great competition have you played and where do people remember you?' It wasn't [Zinedine] Zidane.
"The player, I respect him. He's a great player. But the man and the person not. I let him know.
"For me, he was a player like everyone else. He had to keep up well, and play as he knew how to do, but don't go to the coach to report what happens in the dressing room."
Diouf believes Gerrard became scared of him, adding: "He knows that I don't mince words.
"He did not look in my eyes because he was afraid. And he was afraid to speak to me.
"And when I arrived at Liverpool, it was he who asked me for my jersey, not the opposite."
source: tensports.com
Gerrard, 36, announced on Thursday he was retiring from professional football and Diouf, who spent two seasons at Liverpool and has criticised the midfielder previously, didn’t hesitate to launch missiles at him again.
"When I arrived, I showed him that he was nothing," Diouf told SFR Sport.
"I asked him, 'What great competition have you played and where do people remember you?' It wasn't [Zinedine] Zidane.
"The player, I respect him. He's a great player. But the man and the person not. I let him know.
"For me, he was a player like everyone else. He had to keep up well, and play as he knew how to do, but don't go to the coach to report what happens in the dressing room."
Diouf believes Gerrard became scared of him, adding: "He knows that I don't mince words.
"He did not look in my eyes because he was afraid. And he was afraid to speak to me.
"And when I arrived at Liverpool, it was he who asked me for my jersey, not the opposite."
source: tensports.com

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