Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers admits there is no way that Jamie Carragher will bow out quietly when he plays his final game before retirement against QPR on Sunday.
Carragher, 35, has spent his whole career at Anfield, winning the Champions League, two FA Cups and three League Cups, and the Merseyside-born star will fittingly bow out as captain for his 737th and last appearance for the Reds.
The former England defender started the season behind Martin Skrtel and Daniel Agger in Rodgers’ plans. But in recent months he has played his way back into the team and has finished the season in impressive form.
And Rodgers claims Carragher has been training as hard as ever despite the imminent end to his career.
“He’s in the final week of his career, going into the game against QPR at 35 years of age,” Rodgers said.
“He knows he’s retiring, but after training on Thursday he was still in the gymnasium, preparing himself with the same commitment that he has shown his entire career.
“He could have had a lazy day. He could have had a bit of lunch and then shot home, but he was in the gym preparing his body and doing his core work, his flexibility and preparing himself to the maximum to be his best.
“And that says it all about him; that at the end of his career, he is still preparing as if it was his first game.
“He knows the intensity and the passion and the quality that is needed because he has been there.”
Luis Suarez is suspended and defenders Martin Skrtel, Daniel Agger and Martin Kelly are all set to miss out through illness and injury, while Raheem Sterling, Joe Allen and captain Steven Gerrard are also absent.
