Jamie Carragher has already ignored Andy Robertson’s important advice about Florian Wirtz at Liverpool
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7 being lambasted after each and every game.One of Carragher‘s main points against Wirtz was that he has now been fairly anonymous for more than 50 games at Liverpool. Sadly, Carragher has already failed to take that advice on board.FULL TIME Give us your INSTANT REACTION as Liverpool lose 3-0 to Man City 😡 Carragher is still judging Wirtz too harshlySpeaking to Sky Sports alongside Gary Neville after Sunday’s defeat, Carragher claimed that while he is happy to criticise Wirtz after 56 Liverpool appearances, he will not do the same for Bradley Barcola who has played only a handful of times for the club.“I’m just sorry to say this Florian Wirtz signing, not experiment, that’s the wrong word, it’s not working and it hasn’t worked so far,” the Scouser said.
If we started being critical of him, I think that would be harsh, because he’s been here six weeks, didn’t have a pre-season. He’s got to do so much more, and I struggle to think of one game where he’s won Liverpool the game, he’s been the man if you like.
It’s a lot and I don’t see it changing.”Though many Liverpool fans would agree, they should also have noted Robertson’s words about Wirtz and the impact that Diogo Jota’s tragic death had on him and his fellow summer signings of 2025 while appearing with Carragher on The Overlap at the end of September.“I’ve got so much sympathy in football terms to all the new signings, because they came into a team that was elite in everything we had done for years, and maybe we couldn’t be that because of what had happened [with Jota] and they then started getting quite a lot of criticism,” Robertson said.“I would treat this season as their first season, that’s the way I would do it. Go, ‘okay, this is Kerkez’s first proper season, Florian Wirtz’s first, Alex Isak’s first season and let’s see how they get on.’ Then at the end of the season if they’re not up to it or whatever, but I would treat this as their first proper season.”According to Robertson, if Carragher is unwilling to judge Barcola so early into his Liverpool career, he should still be extending the same courtesy to Wirtz.When is it fair to judge Wirtz?It is obviously true that this is not Wirtz’s first season with Liverpool, and there is no way to erase the previous 12 months – and his 56 appearances – from the collective memory of supporters.