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Liverpool will offer Daniel Sturridge a bumper pay-rise – to stop him feeling like Luis Suarez’s poor relation, write Alan Nixon and Neil Moxley of the Sunday People.

Suarez’s £200,000-a-week pay packet dwarfs his fellow striker’s £70,000-a-week and Kop chief Brendan Rodgers wants the England hitman closer to parity.

Ex-Chelsea star Sturridge took a pay cut to move to Anfield from Stamford Bridge, but his form since his arrival has been sensational and he is a certainty for England’s World Cup squad.

Now Sturridge – who scored in yesterday’s 6-3 win at Cardiff, with Suarez getting a hat-trick – will see his wages double to £140,000-a-week.

Kop chiefs worry that a successful World Cup will make Sturridge a wanted man throughout Europe and don’t want his head turned by lucrative offers.

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Fellow World Cup hopeful Jordan Henderson, 23, is also in line for a pay boost but full-back Glen Johnson, also on the way to Brazil this summer, won’t be so lucky.

Johnson, who earns £100,000-a-week, has a year left on his Anfield contract but, at 29, may find he is offered less to renew, which could trigger a £10m bid from Real Madrid.