Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher has directed his anger in opposition to the membership’s gamers after a humiliating Champions League defeat at house to PSV Eindhoven.
As an alternative of blaming Reds supervisor Arne Slot, Carragher feels that it’s these days the staff’s gamers letting everybody down, whilst he additionally made the large declare that it seems like Virgil van Dijk and Mohamed Salah principally glance completed on the very absolute best stage.
Talking on CBS Sports activities within the video clip underneath, Carragher advised he couldn’t see Slot getting the sack, while insisting that he sought after to look Salah particularly pop out to deal with the enthusiasts after the membership’s terrible fresh shape.
Jamie Carragher on Arne Slot, Virgil van Dijk, and Mohamed Salah
Phrases on Slot, VVD, Salah & on how for much longer this may cross on ?#LIVPSV #ChampionsLeague
Carragher mentioned he’s “angry” with Liverpool’s gamers, and advised we’re beginning to see a glimpse of the membership’s long run now that key figures like Van Dijk and Salah are previous their easiest.
“Liverpool’s not a sacking club,” the previous LFC defender mentioned. “Liverpool are different from almost every club in European football – the manager is the king, the manager gets time.
“Liverpool have never sacked a manager who’s won the league. Never in their history … I couldn’t believe at the weekend that people were talking about the manager’s job, when I spoke to Liverpool supporters after losing at home to Nottingham Forest.
“I’ve always been in the camp that you stick with the manager, I’m angry with the players if I’m being totally honest.
“But it does get to a stage with any manager at any club where I always use this word “untenable”, the place it feels it could possibly’t cross on any more. I’m now not slightly there but for my part, on the subject of the executive, however I do know a large number of supporters might be.
“I’ve had a lot of time to think about it because I knew the game was over long before the final whistle. I think what you’re seeing now is, Liverpool in 2018 under Jurgen Klopp sort of starts this journey … we’re now, what, seven or eight years later, and the catalyst for that run was Alisson, Van Dijk, and Salah.
“Alisson’s injured a lot now, he doesn’t play so much. But you watch Van Dijk now, not the same player, and Mo Salah looks like his legs have gone. I don’t like criticising them, and I think some of the criticism of them this season as players has been harsh.
Virgil van Dijk reacts after Liverpool’s defeat to PSV (Photo by Stu Forster/Getty Images)
“You always look for leaders in your team to step up when things are not going well. And I’ve been critical of Salah off the pitch, I want him to come out and do an interview tonight and speak to the Liverpool supporters about what the players are going to do, about what’s going on in the dressing room, giving the supporters hope that things are going to improve.
“But I don’t like criticising them on the pitch because they’re absolute legends for what they’ve done, and their legs have just gone. Van Dijk now can’t help other players, he needs help himself, and that just means he’s a normal centre-back like I was, maybe he’s not super human right now.”
Carragher questions how just right some Liverpool gamers actually are
Carragher added that he has some issues going again to remaining season about how just right the remainder of those gamers are, suggesting that they’ve in large part been carried through the superb type of Van Dijk and Salah within the fresh previous, however that they’re now failing to step up as the ones two cross into decline.
“I look at some of the others…step up…can you only play well when they play well?” Carragher added. “Their seasons remaining season had been off the size and everybody else loved that, profitable the league, they’re all league champions, they’ve were given that on their CV, but if they’re now not there, the place are they, the place are the others?
“That’s why I am getting offended in regards to the communicate of the executive, but it surely’s inevitable, one thing may just occur, however on the subject of the gamers and the best way they’re acting now, that isn’t appropriate for Liverpool Soccer Membership.
Extra Tales / Newest Information
“I actually think and maybe I thought this a little bit last season – are some of them good enough if Liverpool want to win the biggest trophies? You saw against Newcastle in the Carabao Cup (final), you saw against PSG away from home last season, woeful performances, and they’ve been carried by some of the greatest players the club have ever had.
“This is maybe a snap shot of the future for Liverpool when Mo Salah moves on, when Virgil van Dijk moves on, and when Alisson moves on.”
How unhealthy do you suppose this Liverpool disaster is now? Does Slot wish to cross or is it a case of offloading a few of these suffering gamers? Tell us your ideas within the feedback!
