‘Winning Is Difficult With Or Without Suarez’ --Ex Liverpool Captain Gerrard, Retired England Player Believes Team Is Stronger

Steven Gerrard, who just recently announced his retirement as captain from the England national football team and Liverpool Football Club, has said that winning the title would be 'difficult with Luis Suarez and it will be difficult without.'

Suarez transferred to Barcelona this summer, and Liverpool is now in doubt themselves if they can do it without the striker.

"Of course it (winning the title) will be difficult, it would be difficult with Luis and it will be without. All the other teams will grow and improve in the summer," he said.

"But the reason I have that belief and confidence is because of the experience of all the other games last year, and also the manager has been here for a bit longer, and because of the signings he is making. I'm pretty confident we can get right involved in it again."

"We are a good team, with a good manager, that is getting stronger. The confidence is rising in the dressing room and we have got to show that we are the real deal.

"With 10, 12 games to go, people were maybe expecting us to drop away a lot sooner than we did. But we handled the pressure superbly well and we played some unbelievable football.

"We are not there to just make the numbers up. There is genuine belief that we can be in there.

"Good sides don't just have one good season. They keep trying to fight for what they want. Chelsea do it. Manchester City do it. Manchester United have had a one-off bad season and they will be back. Arsenal have made a couple of really good signings.

"The league is going to be very, very tough but we know we are one of the sides that has got a genuine chance of winning it. I believe that."

With reports from: independent.co.uk