Liverpool were held to a 1-1 draw by Chelsea last weekend at Anfield and it looks like Gary Neville has managed to spot something weird about their manager Jurgen Klopp.
The Anfield outfit have picked up seven points from their first three matches in the Premier League as they look to have shaken off the setbacks from last season.
But according to Neville, something was not right about the Liverpool boss and the pundit’s even tried to scrutinise it a bit.
“I was at the game on Saturday, Liverpool v Chelsea, and I said after the game – sometimes you can’t put your finger on it [but] something’s not right,” Neville said on to the Webby & O’Neill YouTube channel, as quoted by The Mirror.
“Not bad. There’s no massive spirit issue, or the manager falling out with players. Nothing like that.
“But there is something just missing. I remember going three years ago and thinking ‘we [United] are in trouble’. Two years ago thinking, ‘we are in serious trouble’.
“The crowd. The players. The speed of the football. The front three. Alisson and Van Dijk came. Oh dear. They are going to win the league.
“You can just feel it and see when something is right. It’s just not there [now], that team has gone a little bit just over the edge.
“They are not the team they were two years ago. They are a good team by the way – they will win a lot of games. They’ll go close.
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“Last season for [Liverpool] to finish third was unbelievable. [Klopp is] still doing a great job.
“And by the way, they are going to make a profit in this transfer window. They’ve got no money – that is one of the things with Liverpool. They haven’t got the money other clubs have got.
“He’s doing an unbelievable job with the resources. He may have wanted more support in the transfer market. He might have wanted two or three big players. He’s seen that at Chelsea, City and [United].”
Liverpool have made only one major signing this summer in the form of Ibrahima Konte and to make matters worse, Jurgen Klopp has also seen a few of his first-team players move out.
So naturally, the German will not be happy with how the board has handled the summer transfer window.
When clubs like Man United and Man City are spending wild money in the market, the Liverpool boss has hardly gotten a chance to refresh his squad from the 2019/20 season. At the end of last season, he also lost Gini Wijnaldum as a free agent and Liverpool have failed to bring in an apt replacement for him.
While Liverpool have made a positive start to the season but once the European games come along, it will be really hard for Jurgen Klopp to rotate his squad. And he will be under even more pressure when the Africa Cup of Nations starts.
