Every time a player is failing persistently to deliver for his side, rumors stat prevailing in the air suspecting his desire to play for the club even though player himself is passing through an injury which never led him play with full caliber. Liverpool is one such side whose 26-year-old English forward Daniel Sturridge is the one player who has not been in his best form in last two seasons. In fact, he tried his comeback on several occasions but failed to impress anyone and his injury that kept troubling him on the field. Looking at his continuing failure on the field and not keeping himself fit to be included in the side, many start calling him not a desiring player for the Reds and highly doubt his loyalty towards the side, but rubbishing all the reports of him linking with any other club, promising forward answered those spreading the rumors that he may be not interested in playing for the Anfield side, he said in his recent interview, “I don’t pay any attention to it whatsoever. The majority, probably 95 percent of the people who talk and say things about me, don’t actually know me.
“Even some of the people who’ve played with me don’t actually know me. Because they’re a teammate, doesn’t necessarily mean we’re friends or we talk outside of work. But anybody who knows me will know that I’m one of the most ambitious people out there.”
Moreover, he also raised the bar by taunting over the critics who are constantly doubting his intensions to play for the side and added, “And for people to say, ‘Oh he don’t try enough or he doesn’t want to be fit,’ do you honestly believe I’d want to just be sat down picking up wages when I’ve dreamt of being a professional footballer ever since I can remember? I don’t think I’d want to be here now, just to be sitting in my apartment, twiddling my thumbs every day — because pretty much that’s what I do.
“I can’t go out, really. I’m not here having fun with all my mates. I live alone. My family’s close but all my friends live down south. I’m here to work. I’m not here to have fun. I’m not here for a jolly-up. Liverpool, for me, is work. It’s a job. It’s something I take seriously and for anyone to question my integrity, it’s disrespectful.”