Virgil van Dijk admits Liverpool are in a mess and hits out at teammates

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Virgil van Dijk has delivered a scathing assessment of Liverpool’s woeful title defence, the club captain admitting the champions are in a mess and letting down Arne Slot while questioning whether every player is shouldering responsibility for the team’s slump.Van Dijk could not contain his anger following Saturday’s 3-0 home defeat by Nottingham Forest that left Liverpool in the bottom half of the table with a negative goal difference. You look at yourself first and then you help each other, you help each other get out of this mess because at the moment it is a mess – that’s just a fact.“As the champions we can’t be in the situation we are in right now.

We’re going to try to turn it around and that’s the mentality everyone should have.”Arne Slot, right, cuts a frustrated figure during the loss to Nottingham Forest, afterwards accepting blame for his team’s poor performance. It’s basic things but it’s not happening enough.”The Dutchman added: “This season we don’t have any consistency, we concede far too many goals, we are losing battles and everyone is responsible for it and I hope everyone sees that.

We have to take responsibility to turn this around and it is easy to point fingers but you have to do it together. We have been through it together and won the league and everyone was part of it and happy and when you go through a tough time you have to stick together and not point fingers.“You have to be a man and face the toughness and go again, again and again because if you want to give up then you are at the wrong place in my eyes because this club has been going through many adversity over those years and we’ve always come out of it.