Jurgen Klopp doesn't know how to turn around Liverpool's alarming slump in form this season, according to Paul Merson.
The Reds finished last season with two domestic trophies to their name and only missed out on the Premier League title by a single point to Manchester City and were 90 minutes away from winning the Champions League.
But it has been a completely different story this time around as their injury-hit campaign hit another low on Saturday with a miserable 3-0 defeat at relegation-fighting Wolverhampton Wanderers. Joel Matip put through his own next before Craig Dawson quickly added a second as Klopp's side got off to the worst possible start, before Ruben Neves completed the rout late in the second half.
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After the match, Sky Sports pundit Merson took the opportunity to throw some doubt on the German's future as manager of the Reds.
The Arsenal legend said: “First time I’ve seen Klopp just sitting there...I don’t like the word lost, he’s not lost, but I don’t think he knows what else to do now. I think he’s watching this time and it is a million miles off where they were last year, a million miles.
“I think he’ll wait until the Champions League, I think he’ll wait for the Real Madrid game, if he gets a couple of players fit, such as Van Dijk, then it’s a different game if they go and beat Real Madrid over two legs. Watching this I don’t see them doing that. Without Van Dijk, Matip and Gomez don’t look the same players without him, the full-backs have lost their way and the midfield’s getting overrun.
“You’re looking at players who were consistently 8 or 9/10 last year who are now consistently 4 or 5/10 now.”
Liverpool's latest setback at Molineux leaves them 10th in the Premier League, 11 points adrift of fourth-placed Newcastle United, with a game in hand. But Brighton and Brentford - who have both beaten the Reds since the turn of the year - picked up respective victories that extended their advantage above Klopp's team in the table.
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