Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher thinks the Premier League giants need to make two more signings before the summer transfer window closes.
The Reds have been busy this summer as £95m has been spent to sign Alexis Mac Allister and Dominik Szoboszlai from Brighton and RB Leipzig.
And they remain in the market for a midfielder after Fabinho and Jordan Henderson left to join the Saudi Pro League.
Liverpool looked likely to sign Moises Caicedo last week but the centre-midfielder has opted to join Chelsea and a record £115m deal has been
agreed with Brighton.
Jurgen Klopp’s side faced Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in their opening Premier League game of the 2023/24 season on Sunday afternoon. The
points were shared after Axel Disasi’s equaliser cancelled out Luis Diaz’s finish in the 1-1 draw.
Speaking post-match, Carragher claimed that Liverpool are in need of a “holding midfielder and an out-and-out defender”.
“Chelsea are a work in progress,” Carragher said on Sky Sports. “New manager, new players. I think they’ve been the better team today, there’s no
doubt about that. The big worry for me with Liverpool is defensively.
“The last action sums it up as they had a corner and they nearly conceded a goal at the other end. Liverpool need a holding midfielder. They need a
real defender, an out-and-out defender who can play right across that back four.”
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Carragher also thinks it’s “not right” that Liverpool agreed a fee with Brighton before they “got a deal done with the player”.
“Liverpool, I think for a long time, have had the best structure in terms of getting transfers done and getting it over the line,” Carragher added.
“Even in this window and going back to January, Cody Gakpo was just announced. There was no real sort of build-up. Szoboszlai, there was talk the
day before that he was going to come in and it was done the next day.
“Liverpool, it seems to me, they’ve got a deal done with the club but they haven’t really got a deal done with the player – and that’s just not right.”
He continued: “How anyone now agrees a fee with a club and then can’t get a deal over the line with a player, that’s just not the right thing to do. You
don’t put a bid in unless you know the player’s going to come.
“It just doesn’t feel like how Liverpool have done business over the last five or six years under Jurgen Klopp and it just feels like a little bit of a mess.
“It’s a little bit of a panic because Liverpool have to buy someone now between now and the end of the window to fill that position. Everyone out there
knows that and it puts them in a bit of a precarious position.”
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