Liverpool midfielder Curtis Jones has recalled the tough management of Steven Gerrard.

Jones worked for the Al Ettifaq coach with Liverpool U18s.

He recalled to the We Are Liverpool podcast: "There was a game that he said, this is was what stuck in my head a lot - where I wanted to show him that anything you need from me I'll do it - we'd been beaten by Fulham and he said I'd been tackled and the lad had stood over and said something while I'd been on the floor.

"He turned around to me and said, 'what did you do about it?!' I said, 'I can't remember', and he said, 'well, I'll tell you, you did nothing!'

"I sat there and thought, 'you're right'. This is my club, there are people like you who have played your whole life here and even came back to the academy and now you're a coach, you want to give your all to the club. There are people like me, I'm a Scouser myself, I don't understand the situation I'm in. I need to grow up here and need to be a man.

"Just after that, we built a connection to where he saw 'okay, he's willing to go out here and work'. We built a connection. It wasn't always good - to where he was telling me off. I took it on board and done it. That's why I say he was a massive, massive part of it because he wasn't afraid to tell me when I was wrong.

"At the same time, he'd tell me when I was doing well."