Here are your Liverpool evening headlines for Thursday, September 8.
Rio Ferdinand names major Liverpool 'concern'
Rio Ferdinand believes Jurgen Klopp will be concerned with the way his side have gone off the boil and called on Liverpool’s players to become more humble.
The Reds were thrashed by Napoli in their first Champions League Group A game on a night to forget in Italy. Klopp's side were 3-0 down at half time but it could easily have been more as Alisson Becker saved a penalty.
Napoli won the contest at Stadio Diego Armando Maradona as Piotr Zielinski struck twice and Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa and substitute Giovanni Simeone also got on the scoresheet. Luis Diaz netted a consolation in the second half for the Reds .
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And after an underwhelming start to their Premier League campaign, with just two wins from their opening six matches, Ferdinand believes there will be concern in the Liverpool camp due to the lack of togetherness currently on show.
“That is a concern and that is what Klopp will be sitting there scratching his head about,” he told BT Sport. "You understand the odd player going off the boil, but to see them all go off the boil the way they have.
“I would say only one player, Alisson the goalkeeper, has performed consistently to the level we expect this season out of the big players, who you expect big performances from, who they have really relied upon in recent seasons.
“But I think if you look at today’s game in isolation, the worrying thing for me is the lack of togetherness.
“I think we saw Robertson and Klopp speak about the team’s performance today and the two things that came out of their mouths first were they weren't compact.”
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Jurgen Klopp stance on Liverpool 'sacking' questioned
Former Chelsea defender Jason Cundy believes there is no reason why Jurgen Klopp can’t be sacked following Thomas Tuchel’s departure from Stamford Bridge.
The German has left Stamford Bridge just seven matches into the new season, following a 1-0 defeat by Dinamo Zagreb in the Champions League on Tuesday night. Tuchel was appointed by Chelsea in January 2021 and had an immediate impact, winning the Champions League in his first season at the club.
Chelsea then reached both the FA Cup and Carabao Cup final as they secured a third place finish in the Premier League last season. However, following a defeat to Dinamo Zagreb in the Champions League on Tuesday night, Tuchel was sacked the following morning.
Speaking after his side’s 4-1 Champions League defeat to Napoli , Klopp admitted he did not fear the sack from Liverpool owners, Fenway Sports Group, as his bosses are a lot more measured than Chelsea's own American proprietor Todd Boehly.
He said: "Not really, but who knows? The difference is we have different kinds of owners. Ours are more calm and expect me to sort it and not think that someone else will. That's how they see it. The day they change their thoughts they might tell me."
But speaking on talkSPORT on Wednesday night, Cundy believes given the positions of Chelsea and Liverpool, there is no reason why Klopp can’t be sacked by Fenway Sports Group.
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