Jamie Carragher has blasted Raheem Sterling for 'taking on' the Liverpool Football Club.

Reports emerged on Monday evening that the 20-year old forward has told manager Brendan Rodgers he wants to leave the club this summer in order to chase silverware.

Sterling has been the subject of plenty of coverage in the press regarding his reported contract demands and now Carragher has joined the chorus, suggesting that the England international needs to keep his mouth shut.

"For a 20-year-old kid to be taking on Liverpool Football Club over a contract - to the pit of my stomach that just winds me up, it angers me," Carragher said on Sky Sports' 'Monday Night Football'.

"The lad is from London and he obviously wants to go back home. It might not be about money. It may be about trophies or playing in the Champions League.

"If it's about trophies, Liverpool had a chance for a trophy this year - in the FA Cup semi-final at Wembley against Aston Villa. Where was Sterling?

"If you want trophies, they don't get given to you, you have to earn them, you have to play well in big games.

"What did Liverpool do in the Champions League? Nothing. What did Raheem Sterling do? Nothing.

"To do what he's done now, there's nothing worse than that. You keep your mouth shut - get on with playing football.

"You can't have a 20-year-old kid going up to the club asking for this and that every year. It's your job to take the club to these places."