Harry Winks has revealed how he wrote a letter to Steven Gerrard asking for advice when he was seven years old, but never received a reply.
Despite being a boyhood Tottenham Hotspur fan, the England international admits the Liverpool legend was his childhood hero.
However, the 23-year-old, who will sit out Sunday's trip to Anfield through injury , never received a reply from Gerrard.
Going on to make it as a professional footballer regardless, Winks joked there are no hard feelings despite the snub.
"Steven Gerrard was always someone I looked up to," he told Sky Sports . "I actually wrote him a letter years ago, but never got a return!
"I didn't expect him to, I think I sent it to the Liverpool training ground when I was about six or seven years old!
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"It said: 'I really want to be a professional football, I really want to be like you! Can you give me some advice and some help on what you think I need to do?!'
"I don't even know if I sent it to the right address, it probably got lost in the post office somewhere along the way.
"Have I told him? No! I've never met him."
