“It would have been a big error that I would have made had it not been for Steven Gerrard," The Uruguayan striker reveals In his new book Crossing the Line.
"We spoke about this when I went to Melwood to pick up my things at the end of the summer and he said: ‘You did the right thing, you waited until the best moment.’
“He had told me to play well for Liverpool, give it another year and it will be Bayern Munich, Real Madrid or Barcelona coming for you and then you can go where you want, because you have the quality to play at any of those three clubs.”