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title: "Diouf slams former Sunderland defender"
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published: "2016-02-25T16:40:25Z"
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# Diouf slams former Sunderland defender

Former Sunderland winger El-Hadji Diouf has [today launched a stinging attack](https://www.sunderlandecho.com/sport/sunderland-afc/latest-safc-news/safc-match-analysis/ex-sunderland-forward-launches-x-rated-attack-on-former-teammate-1-7749980#ixzz41B6VUwUP) on former teammate Anton Ferdinand.

The Senegal man played with Ferdinand under Roy Keane during an unsuccessful six-month spell on Wearside where the former Liverpool man failed to score in 14 games.

![Pete Norton/Getty Images Sport](https://cdn.readeverything.co/https://media.readsunderland.com/readsunderland/2016/02/83021388.jpg)

Keane signed Diouf for £3-million from Bolton Wanderers in the summer of 2008 but Diouf was out of the door just six months later due to a series of poor performances and an even poorer attitude.

35-year-old Diouf has today had some strong words to say about his time on Wearside and in particular Anton Ferdinand.

> “We were not fighting, I sorted him out, before we were separated. I said to him, ‘Let’s go to the gym, I will take you on.’ He did not want to. I said, ‘You are like your brother… you walk like him, you eat like him – write your own story.’

![Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images Sport](https://cdn.readeverything.co/https://media.readsunderland.com/readsunderland/2016/02/90034790.jpg)

> “Inevitably, it was difficult in terms of atmosphere, I spent six months there. We were not a team. There were little w\*\*\*\*\*s in the group who thought they were the best but they were crap. Anton, he was the number one w\*\*\*\*r.”

Diouf has now retired from football, in a career which promised so much but delivered very little, with the Senegalese man remembered more for his controversial and destructive personality rather than his footballing ability.