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Stewart Downing says who was better during his time at Liverpool – Steven Gerrard or Luis Suarez

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The best probably all-round player I played with.”READ MORE: Steven Gerrard says Liverpool let a striker go who could’ve been as good as Fernando Torres and Luis Suarez“Luis Suarez, I only got him for two seasons and then he just went to another level, but you could see that coming from the first day he came in. “But as an all-round player and how much I played with him at England and Liverpool, I think it’d have to be Steven Gerrard.”Downing details Liverpool scouting jobAs well as playing for two seasons at Liverpool, Downing is currently back working for the club as a global talent scout.



Re-joining behind the scenes in 2025, the 42-year-old has explained what his current job entails and how it all came about.“The job I’m in now, I’m scouting for Liverpool at the minute,” he said. I was doing lots of media work for Sky and I was really enjoying that, something else I didn’t plan.

I thought that’d be good for me, I live literally five minutes from the training ground, so I thought I’ll do that for six months. “I stepped away and then Liverpool ended up calling me through different avenues of people I knew and I’d done a few visits coaching there, and they said there’s a job here, the scouting has come up, what do you think?