Jamie Carragher

Is it the fact that maybe Liverpool are not going to change slot at the end of the season?

He doesn't get on with the manager?

Is it the fact that he just feels like maybe his legs aren't there anymore?

What is it that's made him do it?

Of course, and he got his way in.

I don't know if it's come from above, but I think there's definitely... What makes you say... No, no, no.

Look, to be fair, I don't know Liverpool Football Club at all.

I have no knowledge of their backroom team.

I honestly believe if Liverpool's hierarchy are telling their manager and their coach who to pick, that would be a cross line that I don't think they would cross.

I don't think they'd cross that line.

Well, I...

We've seen this a hundred times, though, with England and with United, where a player is... It sounds crazy.

They are just too much hassle and too big a player to drop.

That's right, it feels like that to me.

So the hassle that comes from dropping a...

Name it, go on, name it.

David Beckham back in the day at United or with England, Wayne Rooney or with... And that's where the pressure comes from above.

Leaving them out is too much hassle.

I don't think the pressure's on the manager going, you have to... No, I don't think it's the pressure from above.

I think it's from the external pressure and the actual fact that it becomes just such a sort of... Big story.