Jamie Carragher reveals the previous Liverpool team-mate who confronted him within the dressing room after the Reds icon mentioned the membership ‘wanted to promote’ him

Jamie Carragher has revealed he was confronted within the dressing-room by a former team-mate after feedback he had made about an ex-Liverpool striker. 

Carragher was talking on The Overlap Fan Debate, delivered to you by Sky Bet, about his experiences in punditry alongside fellow former-player-turned-pundit Paul Scholes. 

The Liverpool icon has grow to be considered one of Sky Sports activities’ hottest pundits, and is nicely regarded for his tactical insights. 

Nevertheless, one of many perils of a transition into the punditry sport is that ex-players will be pressured into commenting on, and sometimes criticising, their previous team-mates. 

This was the place that Carragher discovered himself in, after claiming that his former membership wanted to promote considered one of their strikers, solely to be confronted by the participant within the dressing room at an finish of season sport.  

‘It was Daniel Sturridge – he was nonetheless enjoying on the finish with Jurgen Klopp,’ Carragher revealed. 

Sturridge performed 160 instances for Liverpool, scoring a powerful 68 objectives, including 20 assists

He was additionally a part of the facet that received the membership’s sixth Champions League by beating Tottenham

‘You would not imagine this, however after I stopped enjoying for a few years, Liverpool requested me and Steven Gerrard to go on an finish of season sport in Australia.

‘Liverpool could not promote out the tickets to fill out this stadium in Australia, so that they requested me, Stevie, and Steve McManaman to play with the staff. 

‘I might mentioned that they’d wanted to promote Daniel Sturridge, and he confronted me within the dressing room once we received over there. And I assumed, “Truthful play, good on you.” 

‘There may be nothing worse than somebody backing down, so I wasn’t going to. Typically, if I used to be a participant with a journalist, I would say one thing they usually’d backdown and make an apology, however no, simply entrance it.’

Scholes additionally instructed of a Man United participant asking to satisfy him on account of one thing he had mentioned on punditry responsibility. 

The participant was seemingly left sad along with his feedback and requested to satisfy on the coaching floor, however Scholes’ acquiescence didn’t obtain a response. 

Carragher is commonly surrounded within the Sky Sports activities studio by fellow ex-players who’ve turned to work within the media following their retirement, and he believes the industrial success of the Premier League has had a big half to play on this. 

‘We’re fortunate aren’t we – the Premier League is the largest and the perfect. There are such a lot of jobs and roles – not simply on this nation however in different nations too. We’re fortunate that we’ve performed within the Premier League and now what the Premier League has grow to be.

Carragher instructed how he revered Sturridge for confronting him, however stood by his opinion

Paul Scholes additionally revealed he needed to cope with a participant who was left sad by his feedback

‘After I’m at an enormous sport – my entire life has been about going to look at Everton as a child and enjoying for Liverpool all my profession, then going to Anfield or Manchester United and I’m watching the perfect gamers.

‘You get to stroll round stadiums and dressing rooms, and also you assume “it’s alright this!”

‘Typically I do cease myself and I believe that I’m fortunate. It virtually feels just like the Premier League has taken over the world now. 

‘We’re taking a look at ourselves and we’ve executed okay in our careers, which provides us these [pundit] alternatives. 

‘There are actually many different alternatives for ex-players on the market now as a result of the Premier League is so nice.

‘Typically I really feel just like the speak earlier than the sport is best than the precise sport itself!’