Jamie Carragher fires Arne Slot clear Liverpool transfer instruction after £446m spend

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Liverpool broke the record for the most money spent by a single club in a transfer window over the summer, but Jamie Carragher believes they still need to sign players07:41, 21 Nov 2025Updated 07:41, 21 Nov 2025Jamie Carragher has urged Liverpool to bolster their squad in the January transfer window, despite the club's record-breaking spending spree over the summer. After 11 Premier League matches, the champions find themselves in eighth place, trailing Arsenal by eight points.Despite Liverpool's staggering net spend of £415m over the summer, Carragher insists that further investment is needed in the January transfer window.READ MORE: Liverpool legend repeats Darwin Nunez criticism as Arne Slot receives new messageREAD MORE: Liverpool's 'big disappointment' theory proved wrong after Arne Slot bemoaned setbackSpeaking to Sky Sports, he said: "Liverpool need to spend in January, they need to buy a centre-back, they should have bought a centre-back in the summer."They didn't, and then the one centre-back they did buy, Leoni, a young Italian player, looked fantastic in the game that he played - a Carabao Cup game.

Unfortunately, he got an ACL injury, so we won't see him until next season."Liverpool are probably one injury away at centre-back from really derailing the season, so they have to go to the market in January."I do feel that they did need to bring that number of players in during the summer. I can go through the team of last season - [Kostas] Tsimikas, the manager didn't really have confidence in him, so you needed to buy a left-back."[Jarrell] Quansah moved on, the manager didn't really have confidence in him.

Harvey Elliott moved on, but again, the manager didn't have much confidence in him, so we went and bought another No. 10 in [Florian] Wirtz."[Darwin] Nunez, the manager's never had confidence in him, so we just went and brought in [Alexander] Isak, and obviously we've got the tragic situation of Diogo Jota."But in terms of spending the big money on Isak and Ekitike, who were both playing in the same position, both in the same summer, that was a little one where I was scratching my head a little bit."When you've spent that type of money, and it just becomes one or the other... it doesn't feel very Liverpool-like to me, or certainly the way we've conducted our transfer business in the last few years."Carragher had already made it clear how important it would be to sign a new central defender after also claiming Liverpool's lack of physicality and explosiveness should result in them trying to sign Antoine Semenyo from Bournemouth."I think they’ll have to recruit more physical players and maybe even in January," he said on Stick to Football podcast.