Blackburn's El-Hadji Diouf: My former Liverpool team-mate Jamie Carragher 'has done nothing with his life'
I was a bigger name than him at the time, says Senegal international
Blackburn Rovers' El-Hadji Diouf has launched an attack on Liverpool stalwart Jamie Carragher, insisting that the defender "is nothing".
The 29-year-old still carries mental scars from his two-year stint at Anfield, during a period when the pair did not even talk to each other.
The verbal volley began when the Kop favourite decided to take a swipe at the ex-Red by writing in his autobiography that former boss Gerard Houllier made a mistake by bringing in Diouf ahead of Nicolas Anelka.
"In all my years at Anfield, I have never met a player who cared less about winning or losing," wrote Carragher.
"His name - along with that of Salif Diao - still makes even the toughest Liverpudlians shudder in fear."
Now, however, Diouf not only returned the favour with interest, but also took a pop at a famous fan chant 'we all dream of a team of Carraghers' sung to the tune of The Beatles' Yellow Submarine.
Diouf told The Sun: "If Liverpool had 10 players like Carragher, then they would never win anything.
"Carragher, for me, is nothing. He's like a make of ketchup or mustard to a normal person, not important. I played for Liverpool for two years and Carragher never spoke to me. That's life, some people are like that.
"We didn't have a team at Liverpool. We had the English somewhere and the French boys somewhere. If it's like that, you can do nothing together.
"Carragher is just a guy who loves to talk. But Carragher doesn't sell papers, Carragher doesn't sell shirts."
Then Reds boss Houllier signed the forward for a fee believed to be in the region of £10 million from Lens, and the Senegalese player is unhappy that the defender chose to bring up the issue only now.
He said: "When I played at Liverpool, Carragher could have talked to me then - but he didn't.
"He was jealous of me - that's why he talked about me. Because when I came to Liverpool I earned more than him and I was a bigger name than him.
"I took my country to the World Cup and to the finals of the African Nations Cup.
"So Carragher can't criticise me because, to me, he has done nothing with his life."
Both Diego Maradona and Pele have named Diouf among their list of 100 of the world's best footballers, and he said: "I'm not going to listen to what Carragher says.
"I listen to the big men, the greats of football. Both said very good things about me."
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