What's wrong with Liverpool: Transfers? Salah? Fixtures?

With 33 minutes connected the timepiece against Chelsea, Liverpool midfielder Ryan Gravenberch looked down astatine the turf arsenic an ironic cheer sounded astir Stamford Bridge. The Dutchman's miscued walk for teammate Milos Kerkez had trickled consecutive retired of play, and connected an evening erstwhile a precocious onslaught from Estêvão condemned Liverpool to a third-successive decision successful each competitions, Gravenberch's mistake served arsenic a neat encapsulation of his team's existent struggles.

Sloppy, disjointed and debased connected confidence, Arne Slot's broadside looks similar a shadiness of the squad that romped to the Premier League rubric past term, with past weekend's 2-1 decision successful West London pursuing back-to-back distant defeats to Crystal Palace and Galatasaray.

"The decision-making could've been better," Slot said successful his post-match quality league past Saturday. "It's good margins similar it's been for arsenic agelong arsenic I've been here. Last week, aforesaid arsenic this week -- 2 hard distant games -- the good margins haven't been successful our favor."

After being the beneficiaries of truthful galore precocious goals successful the aboriginal weeks of the season, Liverpool are present falling foul of those "fine margins" and person been usurped by Arsenal astatine the apical of the table.

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Of course, determination is simply a consciousness of position needed. This is the archetypal clip successful Slot's managerial vocation helium has mislaid 3 games successful a row, and his squad inactive sits successful 2nd place, conscionable 1 constituent down Mikel Arteta's side. There is inactive plentifulness of clip for Liverpool to salvage the season, with its £450 cardinal worthy of summertime signings apt to find their groove sooner alternatively than later.

That said, determination tin beryllium nary escaping the information that Slot's broadside does not presently look similar a squad poised to support their Premier League crown. So wherever is it each going wrong? And however tin Liverpool crook things around?

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When Liverpool rounded disconnected an unprecedented summertime of spending with the £150 cardinal British-record summation of Newcastle United striker Alexander Isak connected deadline day, it looked similar the cleanable extremity to 1 of the astir awesome transportation windows of each time.

Isak became the Reds' seventh first-team arrival, pursuing the signings of Bayer Leverkusen duo Florian Wirtz and Read Entire Article