‘Doom loop’ – Liverpool fired relegation warning as £416m signings struggle with basics

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"They were again exactly what I've spoke about all season with them."The performance replicated everything I think's bad. That's without all the problems with it."Dominik Szoboszlai yesterday, he was the only player on the field that looked like he was at the races."The man [Arne Slot] is just spinning plates and when you get that scenario of you've got a number of transfers that come through the door and we only see the effects of when they're on the pitch but there's also scenarios that do happen at football clubs, because I've been in it myself, where transfers that happen have they settled in within the camp, in the dressing room, on the training ground, settled in with a group.What's going wrong for Liverpool?"When you do a lot of transfers most of them have got to work.

If they won more duels, that's telling you. So we're looking at Florian Wirtz, not worked out for him, struggled."So there's four of the major transfers and you go one that's done pretty decent, Ekitike.

So they're struggling.Liverpool's relegation warning"Terry Venables famously always said, you buy five players at a football club, if five don't work, you get relegated."If four don't work, you'll struggle and fight relegation. And I'm thinking, well, it's taken them a month to catch Liverpool.Manchester United are better than Liverpool right now"In the last few weeks, what we've witnessed is Man United have look a better team than Liverpool."With all the stick that Amorim has taken and what's happened, we've just seen in the last week, Man United go to Anfield, have a style, a certain way of playing, and end up scoring a couple against Liverpool and winning the game."And then they've backed it up with another performance."But they backed it up when they beat Sunderland, because Man United played really well against Sunderland, who were flying high as well.