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To start with, you have to know that Jürgen Klopp and Liverpool's player legend Jamie Carragher, well, are sometimes not on the best of terms.
Carragher is now a football expert on television and a columnist for the English daily newspaper "Telegraph" and Klopp is the coach of Liverpool FC, so the two of them are on a confrontational course in certain situations.
Because things have not been going smoothly at his former club for weeks, Carragher took up an old approach that he had already persistently pursued in October: he chalked up a failed transfer policy at the club and thus primarily team manager Klopp.
That hit the heart of the club, as Liverpool suffered the next setback in the Cup.
The team was defeated in the FA Cup with 2: 3 (1: 1) at arch-rivals Manchester United and missed the passage to the round of 16.
For Liverpool, who have been without a win in the Premier League for five games, the crisis is worsening.
Defensive as a major weak point of Liverpool
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For Carragher, that was his message, it is homemade.
Because the champions have been dragging their way through the season without head of defense Virgil von Djik for months, in October the Dutch international was operated on on the cruciate ligament.
Because Joe Gomez has not been available since November due to patellar tendon problems, the only seasoned central defender is Joel Matip.
The defense is now just as fragile as the dominance, 22 goals conceded in the league are already to be lamented, at the same time last season there were eight fewer - and significantly more own goals, namely 48 in the last, now only 37.
For Carragher, this shortage of personnel in the defense is an absurdity.
"I think the club should have responded on October 19, the day Virgil van Dijk's cruciate ligament operation was confirmed," he postulated in the Telegraph.
Side note: The transfer window in the Premier League was long since closed, on October 5th it was over.
The 42-year-old Carragher played 737 competitive games for Liverpool from 1996 to 2013.
During that time he won the Champions League
Source: REUTERS
Moreover, Carragher's request is not new.
He raised it at the end of October and incurred Klopp's anger at that time.
He said angrily: “We started the season with three central defenders, plus Fabinho and a few young players.
It would be pretty presumptuous to have four world-class center-backs.
If anyone wants to tell me we made a mistake in the transfer market, Jamie Carragher mentioned something like that - well, there are a few reasons why they do their job and not mine. "
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Klopp tried Fabinho in the FA Cup, while midfielder Jordan Henderson helped out in the league game on January 17, also against Manchester United (0-0).
Unnecessary stopgap solutions, Carragher insisted.
He said “at the time that I don't think Liverpool can win the league if they don't have a new center-back on January 1st.
To be honest, it is absurd that Klopp was forced to use Jordan Henderson in this position against Manchester United three months later and with the transfer window open. "
The criticism comes from a qualified mouth, Carragher was once one of the best center-backs the club has ever had.
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At the English Premier League club FC Chelsea, coach Frank Lampard is about to end, according to media reports.
His successor should therefore already be determined.
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For the time being, Klopp doesn't seem to want to change anything else about the malaise in defense, his current transfer plans obviously provide for access on the offensive rather than on the defensive.
According to the Daily Mail, Derby County's Kaide Gordon is imminent.
The 16-year-old right winger made his debut in the professional team of the English second division club in December.
Coach Wayne Rooney's club is said to receive around £ 1 million plus £ 3 million in bonuses for Gordon.
Money, which is sorely needed because the club is financially too weak and is already behind with the payments of the players' salaries.
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