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Gerrard: Crucial Carragher stays with Liverpool

tribalfootball.com Updated September 2, 2012, 6:05 am

Steven Gerrard says it's crucial Jamie Carragher is kept on at Liverpool.

Carragher is struggling to command regular first-team football and has entered the last season of his contract.

"Jamie won't be fully appreciated until he's gone," said Gerrard to the Daily Mail. "When you're local I think it can get overlooked, how important you are in the set-up. He does so much for the club on and off the field.

"The kids here really look up to him. The stuff he does in his spare time, he's a real role model for the club and I don't think everyone fully understands what that means.

"I'm sure the club realise and, hopefully, they will do their best to keep him around. He performs such an important role here."

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