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Steven Gerrard: Liverpool legend was slammed by El-Hadji Diouf live on TV

El-Hadji Diouf certainly isn’t the most popular figure among Liverpool supporters.

The Senegalese forward earned a move to Merseyside in the summer of 2002 after his standout performances at that year’s World Cup in South Korea and Japan.

Liverpool paid around £12 million for his services, but they certainly didn’t get value for their investment.

In 79 appearances across all competitions for the Merseyside outfit, Diouf scored only six goals – a woeful return for a forward.

As well as failing to impress on the pitch as a player, the often-controversial Diouf never really speaks glowingly about his time at Liverpool since departing.

And in November of 2016, he took aim at Steven Gerrard live on French TV.

On the day the Liverpool legend announced his retirement from football, Diouf didn’t hold back one bit.

Speaking about Gerrard and Jamie Carragher on SFR Sport, he said: “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.

“When I arrived I showed [Gerrard] 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.”

Diouf was sat next to Arsenal icon Emmanuel Petit in the studio and the Frenchman intervened by using the 2005 Champions League final as a way to defend Gerrard’s legacy.

But when the 1998 World Cup winner couldn’t remember what year Gerrard produced his famous heroics against AC Milan in Istanbul, Diouf couldn’t resist have another dig.

“Here is the proof, even you cannot remember,” the former Bolton Wanderers man said. “You are talking about Euros and World Cup. Today I owe you respect [Petit], I owe respect to Mr [Zinedine] Zidane because you did win

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