After a third bid for Southampton's Romeo Lavia was rejected on Monday,

Liverpool legend's Jamie Carriger took to social media to blast the clubs,

his words not mine, embarrassing failures in this summer's transfer market.

At the time of recording, seven midfielder's have been allowed to leave the

club. Just the two reinforcements have been signed. So what's the holdup? And how of three

sporting directors in 18 months impacted Klop's position within the club? I'm Ayahu Akim Waleri

and welcome to the Athletic Football Podcast.

The only part of the staff or the recruitment team decided we don't need to buy a midfield.

That is on them.

I want us to be a possession team, like specialists.

Specialists in possessions, specialist in high press.

And that's how I want to do this preseason. Whatever we do, we try to do it even after all the

years, try to raise the bar again and again and again.

Okay, so in the studio we've got Tony Evans, journalist and host of the Athletics Liverpool podcast Walk On.

And we've also got Ralph Honingstein, the Athletics German football correspondent.

Right, I've mentioned the tweet.

Jamie actually said, this is embarrassing.

Liverpool for years now have got deals done quickly with no fuss. If you don't think he's worth 50 million, move on. If you really want him, pay it. Also,

not sure why LFC aren't in Faisado. Yes, it's a lot of money, but Liverpool got big money

for Henderson and Fabino. Tony, let's start with you on this.

Is he right? Well, yeah, I've mixed feelings about it because obviously no one expected the Saudi

intervention into the transfer window and that took Liverpool by surprise. And we know that

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