Liverpool were truly humbled and embarrassed at the hands of Napoli and Rio Ferdinand name-checked several players who have not been up to standard, so far this season.
Speaking on BT Sport, the 43-year-old said: “Too many of their big star players that they’ve relied on in recent years, are nowhere near the levels that they’ve produced and that we’ve become accustomed to seeing.
“Salah’s not at the level he was before, in terms of output. Virgil van Dijk the same, Fabinho even looks a little bit off it. You can go through the whole team – Trent Alexander-Arnold, the two full-backs look off it”.
It’s easy to point the finger at those not playing well at the moment, because there’s so many people below the normal high levels we expect of the Reds.
Jurgen Klopp has a massive job to get this team back to the level we expect of them and that will need to start with our next match, against Wolves at Anfield.
You can watch Ferdinand’s thoughts on Liverpool via @btsportfootball on Twitter:
🗣 "Too many of their big stars are not at the levels they've produced"@rioferdy5 believes Liverpool's big players are letting them down ❌#UCL pic.twitter.com/SV4M0DeZ0w
— Football on BT Sport (@btsportfootball) September 7, 2022
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I watch liverpool last night and in my opinion the team is burn out except for 3 to 4 players this team has be playing for the 5 years the amount of football they have play is showing now in last night game I don’t blame the manager or the team I blame the FSG and Mr Henry for the lack for investment in thr team to keep the standers you have to invest in both transfers window but they don’t so it any is to blame for this pore performance is down to the owners of the club
I am a mad liverpool fan and never saw the team play like that .