Jamie Carragher blasts Liverpool for being naive in the transfer market
Speaking on the Monday Night Football show, former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher has blasted the way the Reds have operated in this transfer window so far.
The less said the better about how embarrassingly bad the club have been in the market so far. It is as if they are being played around with no say in how a deal can be done.
From trying to penny-pinch for the Romeo Lavia deal to getting duped into the Moises Caicedo transfer race, Liverpool are behaving like a club that has no clue what they are on about. We are lucky that Alexis Mac Allister and Dominik Szoboszlai had a release clause in their contracts. Otherwise, we would have been sitting here with no signings.
Here’s what Carragher said about this mess (quoted by Sky Sports):
“Schmadtke has become in and he has a relationship with Jurgen Klopp – but he’s only there for the summer. That’s all he’s there for and then moves on.
“They haven’t got deals done – that is your job in that role, to get deals over the line. The two players they bought had buy-out clauses, there’s no negotiation, no big deal to go about it, you just meet the buy-out clause. So Liverpool have not got big deals over the line and it’s been embarrassing.
“That’s why I will not be critical of the owners – they were willing to pay £111m and break the transfer record. To start with Lavia, not pay a certain amount, to then go to Caicedo and then go back to Lavia, it’s an absolute mess, a joke and it’s embarrassing.”
We can praise the owners for being willing to fork out the cash for Caicedo, but where was that ambition earlier in the summer? We know that Liverpool got a sudden injection of cash (£52m) through Fabinho and Jordan Henderson sales.
So, the money that is being portrayed in public is because the club got lucky in the market from the selling viewpoint.
Had the owners forked the same amount in June, there might be a case for the recruitment department to start working on the likes of Caicedo and steal a march on Chelsea.
With about two weeks to go in the window, the Reds have to get their act together or face the consequences of it for the remainder of this season.
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Let’s be honest, without a defensive midfielder and a left-sided centre-back, this team isn’t finishing in the top four. And we won’t blame Jurgen Klopp if he walks out next summer if he feels helpless.
