Carragher tears into Liverpool recruitment after Villa defeat

Carragher tears into Liverpool recruitment after Villa defeat

Liverpool’s problems this season have often been aimed at Arne Slot, but Jamie Carragher believes the issue goes deeper than the head coach.

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The 4-2 defeat at Aston Villa only strengthened concerns around a side that looks too easy to play through, too fragile defensively and still not guaranteed Champions League football.

Now the former defender has pointed towards recruitment, with Richard Hughes’ department inevitably part of that wider conversation.

Carragher questions Liverpool recruitment

Speaking on Sky Sports before the Villa defeat, quoted via Football365, Carragher said Liverpool’s summer business changed the balance of the team.

The 48-year-old said: “For me, the problem all season, it goes back to the summer recruitment. Every player they brought in was more attacking than the one that left.”

Carragher added: “I just looked at the games in pre-season, looked at that first game [vs Bournemouth], and it just felt like end-to-end basketball, and Liverpool weren’t that the season before under Slot, they were a lot more controlled, and it just seems to have been lost this season.”