"Carragher said something like: 'I don’t want to play against him every day in training"

Luis Suarez and Steven Gerrard provided the Liverpool faithful with a number of fond memories. These days, the striker is playing for Atletico Madrid whilst the Englishman is managing Aston Villa.

The manager recently appeared on 'The Overlap', and Gary Neville wanted to know who was the best striker Gerrard ever shared a dressing room with. The Liverpool legend did not have to think about it for too long.

"Torres or Suarez? I’d say Suarez just because he had everything. I mean how long have you got to describe him. I played with some top players, your Alonsos of this world. Mascheranos, Torreses, but Suarez was just different. No matter what, who you were playing you just felt he was going to win you the game. Any game, didn’t matter who it was", he explained.

The first time he had Suarez playing in front of him, Gerrard knew he was a special striker. "I remember walking off one of the main sessions that we had done with Carra. And me and Carra were like 'my God, this player has got bundles, he’s got plenty'. I remember Carra saying something like 'I don’t want to play against him every day in training', you know he was that intense in training", he remembered.

Gerrard believes that even Suarez himself was not aware of his ability back in his Liverpool days: "He could embarrass you. Even embarrass you with things I don’t think he realised he was doing. He was a ricochet merchant. He’d run over you. He’d dominate you. He’d bully you".

To finish, Gerrard revealed why Suarez ended up at Barcelona. He explained that he attempted to calm the tension between the player and the then manager, but it was to no avail. "He had that situation with Brendan Rodgers where I tried to be a bit of a go-between but there’s certain situations where you have to back away. Let him and his people deal with it themselves. Not that I didn’t want to help but sometimes the situation was bigger than it was", he closed.