Jamie Carragher analysis the major reason for Liverpool struggles this season

Jamie Carragher has criticized Liverpool’s team management, claiming their recent transfer deals have contributed to the club’s problems this season.

The Reds have had a memorable seven-and-a-half years since Jurgen Klopp arrived in October 2015 and won just about everything.

They narrowly missed out on two more Premier League titles, also losing to Real Madrid in two Champions League finals during that span.

However, he has struggled dramatically this season, and despite coming close to a stunning four-man victory last season, Liverpool are 11 points off the top four. They signed PSV striker Cody Gakpo for £44m in January, but many were critical of not adding a high-quality midfield option, a position which has left them woefully exposed to three successive heavy defeats to Brentford, Brighton and Wolves. .

Jamie Carragher says Liverpool’s lack of business in the transfer market in recent years has contributed to the problems this season, which sees the Reds tenth in the league.

And Carragher believes several transfer mistakes in recent years have left Klopp with a limited number of players who are at the peak of their careers.

“Liverpool have very young or very old players,” Carragher told The Overlap.

“They have nobody in that sweet spot of a 25 to 29 sort of thing and you have to put that to Jurgen Klopp or Pep Lijnders, the recruiting team that has received more praise than any other recruiting team I’ve seen in my life.

“People criticize the owners for the money, I think the owners have done a fantastic job at the club. “I think the biggest mistake FSG have made is whether they can control it or not, they have allowed this team to have everyone in the Premier League across Europe saying ‘c is the model they follow must, “they allowed it to unravel.”

The Liverpool legend also admitted his concerns over the upheaval at Anfield when owners FSG put the club up for sale last year, while several key figures in the recruitment department left the club recently.

Highly respected sporting director Michael Edwards left the company last summer and his successor Julian Ward has announced he will be leaving at the end of the current season.

Meanwhile, influential data manager Ian Graham announced in November that he was leaving and Carragher insisted it had contributed to their dramatic decline in form this season.

He added: “Four or five people behind the scenes who are known to play an important role in the recruitment and sale of Liverpool have been cleared to leave.

“We don’t know who replaced them, we don’t know if Jurgen Klopp is at work any longer and I was there with [Gerard] Houllier and Rafa Benitez, the longer they are at work the more power you get. “What everyone felt was a really top team that most people would emulate, they were allowed to go their separate ways.”

Carragher also cited Jordan Henderson as an example of someone who suffered from the club’s poor decisions in the transfer market, insisting the midfielder doesn’t deserve some of the criticism he has received.

He explained: “I think there’s been some mismanagement in the team and I’m going back to Jordan Henderson. Jordan Henderson has done a lot for the Liverpool supporters at the moment, Jordan Henderson has done his job.

“He arrived at 21, he is 31 and he has won everything. He’s not expected to play every week at the moment anyway and that’s down to poor team management. “He shouldn’t be playing week after week where he’s about 32, 33 now. He has to play there because of the team’s mismanagement.’

Liverpool will be back in action on Monday when they host Everton in a Merseyside derby clash.