Charlie Adam has recalled how Luis Suarez and Jamie Carragher used to “kick lumps out of each other” during training sessions at Liverpool.
Suarez spent three and a half seasons at Anfield between January 2011 and the summer of 2014, setting countless records — some of which have since been broken — and establishing himself as one of the best strikers on the planet during his time at the club.
The Uruguayan, who has been a regular source of support to fellow Uruguayan striker Darwin Nunez since he joined Liverpool, came agonizingly close to driving Liverpool to its first-ever Premier League title during the 2013-14 season, ultimately leaving for Barcelona at the end of the campaign where he took his game to an even higher level.
Reds legend Carragher called time on his career a year before Suarez left, and former Liverpool midfielder Adam has recalled how fired up the pair used to be in training.
“I’ve never seen a guy like him on a daily basis,” Adam told No Tippy Tappy Football of Suarez. “Training was – horrible is a bad word, but just demanding, wanted to be the best, mess people around.
“Every day, he played the way he trained, he was like a school kid in a playground. I’ve seen him and Carragher kick lumps out of each other on a Friday like, ridiculous, and it was just ‘get on with it’, he’d just get on with it. He’d leave one on Carragher, Carragher would leave one back on him. But then he’d take it to Saturday.”
Adam added: “He’d go and play for Uruguay, he turned back up training Friday morning because of flights and different things.
“When I was there, I remember at the time there was a lot of South Americans from… in Liverpool but they were at Man City, there was other clubs, and they’d share a private jet coming back together.
“So they’d all fly back and he’d train on a Friday morning, said ‘no no no no, I want to play on the Saturday’ — it’s just relentless what he did.”
