Danny Murphy says Liverpool are seriously missing one player they sold in the summer transfer window

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This has been put down to a few factors, that have included defensive fragility, tactics of other teams, and the summer business taken on by Liverpool.They may have brought in the likes of Hugo Ekitike and Alexander Isak to great fanfare, but the latter has not delivered as yet for the Reds up front like one of the men who lined up for Slot last year.Photo by Nikki Dyer – LFC/Liverpool FC via Getty ImagesDanny Murphy says Luis Diaz is a big miss for LiverpoolLuis Diaz was sold in the summer transfer window for £65.5 million to Bayern Munich after being a key part of the success of the Dutchman’s debut title-winning year following the departure of Jurgen Klopp.It has left the team with a gap of sorts on the left-hand side because it realistically only falls to Cody Gakpo, who is the starting left winger, with no fully formed alternative ready to rotate with him.Diaz’s departure is something that Danny Murphy has highlighted with the transfer business of his former club this season as a player who is now a ‘huge miss’.READ MORE: Martin Keown is right about two key Liverpool exits that have affected Arne Slot’s team this seasonSpeaking to talkSPORT, he explained: “This big turnaround of players that they’ve had, not only have some of the players from last year not hit the heights, a lot of the new signings are struggling with the size of the task, you can see it, it’s a bit much for some of them to take and I’ve seen it before.“When you go to a club like Liverpool, players, especially young players, take time. That’s not what they do, in fact, the most established player they let go was probably Diaz, who was 28-29, and they got such money for him, but he’s been a big miss.”Danny Murphy is worried after Liverpool’s performance vs BrentfordIt is a problem with the recruitment that they did not go out and buy an extra player on the left.

Even if Ekitike can play there, he cannot start there most games.However, Murphy admitted that he was not worried about this run of form because he saw it as a blip, watching both the Manchester United and Chelsea defeats.Now, the Englishman is worried about what is happening at the club because of the ‘worst performance’ he has seen all season against Brentford.“So I think at the moment he’s realising that all teams are going to try and do this to him, and he’s going to have to find a way to negate it. Now, I wasn’t too worried up until Brentford because I thought the United and Chelsea games were on the knife-edge, so the Chelsea away game, second half, was like a cup game,” he said.“They were attacking, we were attacking.

They go to Frankfurt. And they fail, but they fail badly.