Steven Gerrard has rekindled his feud with former Liverpool teammate El Hadji-Diouf. The duo were colleagues at Anfield for two seasons after the Senegalese striker's £10m transfer from Lens in 2002, before he was sent on loan to Bolton Wanderers in 2004 ahead of joining Sam Allardyce's side permanently.

It has subsequently come to light that the pair didn't see eye to eye, with accounts of them even having confrontations in the dressing room during a pre-season fixture. Appearing on the Rio Ferdinand Presents podcast, Gerrard revealed his thoughts when Diouf completed his switch to Liverpool.

When questioned whether he was disappointed with Liverpool's transfer approach during his stint at the club, Gerrard responded: "We got recruitment badly wrong at times. Badly wrong at times.

"I'll give you one example. We had the chance to sign Nicolas Anelka [who had been on loan at Anfield] or El Hadji Diouf. And we bought El Hadji Diouf on the back of a four-to-five game period in a World...