Liverpool great Dietmar Hamann believes Jurgen Klopp has lost faith in his players after their capitulation in the Premier League this season.
The 2005 Champions League winner says it is a 'very worrying time' at Anfield, admitting a top four finish looks 'very unlikely' because of the Reds' lack of 'drive, passion and resilience'.
The defending Premier League champions have suffered six straight home defeats in the top flight, slumping to eighth place and longingly gazing upwards at the European Cup finishing places.
“Every week you think ‘this can’t get any worse’ and the next week it does get worse!" Hamann told talkSPORT. “It’s a terrible run they’re on; to lose six home games is not what champions do, it’s not what Liverpool do.
“I’m not sure whether there’s something wrong within the team and behind the scenes, but clearly something’s not right. Champions League qualification for next year now looks very unlikely.
“It was a must-win game if they wanted to stay in the hunt for fourth place; I was surprised by how many changes Jurgen Klopp made.
“He probably thought, ‘with the other players we lost games, so why not throw them all in?’ But they looked a beaten team, no matter who is playing at the moment, and Fulham deservedly won. Klopp hasn’t got an awful lot of faith in his players at the moment, and it shows.
“This is something you don’t really see from Liverpool. Their drive, passion and resilience to come back from going a goal down or two goals down, I think that was always their trademark. But at the moment nothing of that can be seen and this is why they are where they are.
“He probably thought we make the changes now and see how it goes against Fulham, because it probably gives us a better chance against RB Leipzig midweek, where they are in a very commanding position; you’d expect them to go through.
“But they have no confidence, there’s just no spark and I haven’t got the feeling that everybody is doing their utmost to get out of their situation and it’s a very worrying time.”
