Jamie Carragher tells Jurgen Klopp the type of player he needs to sign for Liverpool this summer
Jamie Carragher says Liverpool are missing a traditional no10 in their side following Thursday’s defeat to Chelsea.
Liverpool fell to their fifth consecutive home defeat thanks to Mason Mount’s winner with Jurgen Klopp’s side now four points off the top four.
The Premier League champions have scored just one goal in their last six games on Merseyside with their inability to breakdown the opposition a cause for concern with the club now deep in a battle for Champions League qualification heading into the season run-in.
Liverpool’s struggles to press with the same intensity that drove them to last season’s title has been widely discussed during their recent struggles and club legend Carragher believes that leaves the club needing more creativity further up the pitch.
‘Jurgen Klopp famously said, his pressing is better than any number 10, but when you watch Liverpool, you feel like they need a number 10 – they need that type of player because the pressing isn’t there’ Carragher told Sky Sports.
‘I don’t know if it’s the same players playing week-in, week-out, off the back of four or five years of high-intensity football. Who knows what it is?
‘”We’ll maybe nearly get to the bottom of it next season when we see the crowds back and maybe more of a normal season, but they just don’t seem right in terms of energy and pace at the moment.’
Philippe Coutinho played that role at Anfield for many years before leaving Liverpool for Barcelona in January 2018. And while Carragher stopped short of calling for a replacement, he believes the current squad lacks that sort of creative force.
‘Teams have come and defended deep and they haven’t got anyone between the lines to play that pass, they have Coutinho who went and they built in other areas.
‘I’m not saying they should go and buy that, but without the actual pressing quality they have now in terms of creating chances, they haven’t really got anyone who can make that final pass.’
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