Jamie Carragher revealed that he had been confronted in the locker room by a former teammate after comments he had made on a former Liverpool striker.
Carragher was talking about the debate of fans of overlap, was brought by Sky Bet, on his experiences as an expert alongside his colleague who became the player who became Paud Scholes.
The Liverpool icon has become one of the most popular experts in Sky Sport and is well considered for its tactical ideas.
However, one of the dangers of a transition to the expert’s game is that former players can be forced to comment and sometimes criticize their former teammates.
This was the position in which Carragher found himself, after saying that his former club needed to sell one of their strikers, to be confronted with the player in the locker room in a end -of -season match.
“It was Daniel Sturridge – he was still playing at the end with Jurgen Klopp,” Carragher revealed.
Jamie Carragher revealed that Daniel Sturridge had confronted him for saying that the club should sell it
Sturridge played 160 times for Liverpool, scoring 68 impressive goals, adding 20 assists
He was also part of the team that won the sixth Champions League of the Club by beating Tottenham
“You can’t believe it, but when I stopped playing for a few years, Liverpool asked Steven Gerrard to spend a end of season match in Australia.
“Liverpool could not sell the tickets to fill this stadium in Australia, so they asked me, Stevie and Steve McManaman to play with the team.
“I said they needed to sell Daniel Sturridge, and he confronted me in the locker room when we got there. And I said to myself: “Fair Play, of course you.”
“There is nothing worse than someone who is backing down, so I was not going to do it. Sometimes if I was a player with a journalist, I could say something and they would go back and said sorry, but no, just before.
Scholes also spoke of a united man’s player asking to meet him following something he had said about the duty of the climb.
The player has apparently remained unhappy with his comments and asked to meet on the training field, but the acquiescence of Scholes did not receive an answer.
Carragher is often surrounded by Sky Sports Studio by other ex-players who turned to work in the media after their retirement, and he thinks that the commercial success of the Premier League has had a big role to play in this area.
“We are lucky is not us – the Premier League is the biggest and the best. There are so many jobs and roles – not only in this country but also in other countries. We are lucky that we played in the Premier League and now what the Premier League has become.
Carragher told how he respected Sturridge for having confronted him, but was held in opinion
Paul Scholes also revealed that he had to take care of a player who had remained unhappy by his comments
“When I’m in a big match – my whole life was to watch Everton when I was a child and play for Liverpool all my career, then go to Anfield or Manchester United and I watch the best players.
“You can walk in stadiums and changing rooms, and you think” everything is fine! “”
“Sometimes I stop and I think I’m lucky. He almost has the impression that the Premier League has taken up the world now.
“We are looking at and we have done well in our career, which gives us these opportunities (expert).
“There are now many other opportunities for ex-players now because the Premier League is so large.
“Sometimes I have the impression that the conversation before the game is better than the game itself!”