– Many look to the ownership. What’s happening right now, I don’t blame FSG for one bit of it, I don’t. I will now be criticized by some supporters sections for defending the owners. I have no job in Liverpool, says Jamie Carragher.
– It feels like there are so many areas that are not working right now in Liverpool. Some of them are on the field and some of them are off.
Not just defeat, but class difference
The former centre-back highlights how the team has clapped together, especially away from home. Losing to Brentford, Brighton (x2) and Wolverhampton is fine, but it has happened in sensational and humiliating fashion.
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– There are probably three of the worst away losses, not only under Klopp but in Premier League history from Liverpool. To lose so badly. They have not only lost, they have been completely beaten. It could have been 5-0 to Wolves.
– The Brighton match should have ended worse. They don’t just lose to these teams by the one goal, they get completely outplayed.
Was money available
Among supporters, you will find several who believe that Fenway Sports Group is too hard on the wallet. “Carra” points out how the club’s model has previously received praise from almost all sides, and that funds were set aside for a midfield reinforcement.
– People say they haven’t injected enough money. But what Liverpool have been best at is actually selling and bringing in money that allows them to spend £75m on a centre-back, £60m on a goalkeeper, £50 on Naby Keïta. But right now, they got to the end of last season – there was money there for a midfielder.
– They tried to buy the boy who went to Real Madrid, so it was £60-70 million there for a midfielder.
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When there was no Aurélien Tchouaméni in the summer of 2022, those who manage transfers must take their share of the blame for not bringing in an alternative.
– They couldn’t get him and Jürgen Klopp and his team, or the recruitment team decided that we don’t need to buy a midfielder. It is their responsibility. And then we got to this season and from day one against Fulham, they haven’t been able to handle the intensity of a Premier League game of football and they’ve just been absolutely overrun in every Premier League game they’ve played, literally .
