Emphatic Jurgen Klopp verdict shared as Liverpool…

Emphatic Jurgen Klopp verdict shared as Liverpool players told to listen

As the Reds survey the wreckage of their hideous 3-0 defeat at Wolverhampton Wanderers, here's your Liverpool FC evening headlines on Sunday, February 5.

Jamie Carragher names one exception to 'change everyone' Liverpool theory

Jamie Carragher believes Liverpool may need four or five new players to turn around their troubles, but the last person he would be replacing is Jurgen Klopp.

The Reds appeared to plunge into crisis on Saturday as they suffered an embarrassing 3-0 defeat at relegation-threatened Wolverhampton Wanders in what was Klopp's third consecutive away loss in the Premier League. With a host of key players absent with injury, it leaves last year's runners-up languishing in tenth position in the table and seemingly little hope of qualifying for next year's Champions League, unless they can win the competition this season.

Former Reds defender Carragher accepts that his former club's season looks all but over and that a summer rebuild job will now take priority, but he still wants manager Klopp to lead the revolution.

When pushed as to whether Klopp would have the stomach to go again with a new team at Anfield, Carragher continued: "I would change everyone else at that football club before I changed Jurgen Klopp. When he first came in Liverpool were sixth or seventh in the league and he took them to where Liverpool have been in the last few years. He's proven that he can do that and I'd like to see him do that again, I'm sure he will."

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Liverpool players must listen to Jurgen Klopp as major hint dropped over next steps

After more than seven years at Liverpool, and twice as long again as manager elsewhere, there's very little Jurgen Klopp won't have seen or said during his time in the hotseat.

And as he sifts through the wreckage of another dismal performance from his players, the Reds boss will no doubt have been mindful of two of his previous quips.

"We really want to be the ugliest team to play against," he said back during the opening weeks of the 2018/19 season. "None of the results we have this season would have been possible without the greed you have seen or without the aggression you see. No chance."

Then, of course, there was what Klopp said when he was unveiled as Reds boss back in 2015.

"The first thing, always, maybe in life, you need to have a stable defence," he said. “If it’s possible, can we be the hardest team to beat in the world? Let’s try to be this."

Liverpool at present are far removed from being either. Instead of the hardest team to face in the Premier League, let alone the world, the Reds are currently one of the easiest. And, for their suffering supporters at least, they have become extremely ugly to watch rather than play against.

Klopp, speaking on Friday, insists there is no problem with the attitude or body language of his squad during training. The concern now, though, is whether the message is being put across properly or, more worryingly, if the players even have belief in the methods and are paying full attention.

However, it could just be that those available are simply not capable enough. "The opposite of what we wanted to do," said Klopp of the two goals in the opening 12 minutes that sent Wolverhampton Wanderers on their way to victory on Saturday, hinting that how Liverpool prepared wasn't followed. The occasional lapse is permitted, yes - the fault lines, though, travel deep into this increasingly tortuous campaign.

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