Steven Gerrard's Curtis Jones challenge truer than ever at Liverpool after milestone moment

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"I say life because he was probably the first man to really have a pop at me at the academy, and just changed me to think: ‘Yeah, I’m not better than anybody else.’“It was a reality check in terms of the way I played and the role that he gave me. Steven would be the first to say that once I overcame a thing where I complicate things and thought I was the man because I had a [number] 10 on my back and things like that, I’d be the first man he’d pick on his team.

Coming from a man like him, who played the game, who I idolised, I thought: ‘I’ve got to change if it’s him that’s telling me’.“From there he stuck with me and I stuck with him and we worked. A year after I’m around the first team and I’m stood here now on 200 games, so he’s obviously a man that I’d like to thank as well.”Now aged 24, Jones also revealed how he has taken some of the younger players on the fringes of the Reds squad under his wing, urging them to enjoy their fledgling days at Anfield."It's mad," Jones said.

I can only thank the staff around me and the teammates around me who have always got the belief in me to keep me at the club and when I play, to trust that I can play in that many games."I can only thank my mum and the family around me, who have obviously played a huge part... the times when it was taxis into training and things like that. And that's what I'm doing so I've got a massive smile on my face.