Controversial Senegalese forward El Hadji Diouf has launched an attack on his ex team mate and Liverpool captain Steven Gerard. He claims Gerard is egomaniac and respects no one, he said Steven would prefer to score than for the team to win.

Diouf is known to have an aggressive verbal tendencies and questionable character and believes Gerard is self-obsessed, Diouf who was called a swear-rat by the then OPR manager Neil Warnock, due to his reaction when Jamie Mackie suffered a broken leg has called himself a demi-god in Senegal who single-handedly took his country to the world cup