A deep dive into Liverpool's deep dive: Recruitment mistakes, brain drain and burnout at Anfield
Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
Sky Sports
4.0 • 760 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Melissa gives her analysis into the scale of Liverpool's ongoing issues, why their resurgence before this week was another false dawn, and explains what behind-the-scenes issues are affecting matters on the pitch.
With sporting director Michael Edwards and FSG president Michael Gordon either gone or moved away from the Liverpool frontline, how much trouble are Liverpool in - and how do they go about fixing it?
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| 0:24.6 | When you play, play safe with Bet365. The season's over. |
| 0:35.6 | What they got? They've got top four now for a team who's been used to challenging for the Champions League and for the Premier League title. |
| 0:42.3 | Need to motivate themselves to be able to just get to the top four. |
| 0:45.3 | Is that success for Liverpool? |
| 0:47.3 | It's certainly a step backwards. |
| 0:48.3 | The punches haven't been pulled this week after Liverpool were dealt another crushing blow to all but end their hopes of Champions |
| 0:54.8 | League success before the end of February. Last season, the Reds were still alive in all four |
| 1:00.3 | major competitions until the final weeks of the season, but after a five-two thrashing by |
| 1:05.1 | Real Madrid on Tuesday night, it's now top four or bust for Juergen Klopp's men. That result was the |
| 1:10.8 | latest in a long line of disappointment for Liverpool this season, |
| 1:13.6 | a far cry not only from that sensational 21-22 campaign, |
| 1:17.6 | but the majority of the Klop era at Anfield. |
| 1:20.6 | The blame games shifted from week to week seemingly, |
| 1:23.6 | so what actually is the big problem on Merseyside? |
| 1:26.6 | So to really get down to the bare |
| 1:28.4 | bones of the scale of the problems at Amfield. I'm joined by Sky Sports News senior reporter |
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