'Arry is not a fan of the current Liverpool squad. Not even a little bit.
That is the sad news that Liverpool fans are having to come to terms with today, as for some reason former QPR manager Harry Redknapp has left no doubt over how little he rates the current playing staff at Anfield in a pretty scathing spiel where he even went as far as to claim that the club should have no points from their first four Premier League games.
Redknapp was speaking at 'Telegraph Total Football Live', and when he was asked what he thought of the current Liverpool team, he didn't hold back.
I don’t fancy Liverpool at all.
I think it’s the worst Liverpool team I have seen in years. They look bang average. They are lucky to have any points. Bournemouth should have beaten them, they got a wonder goal at Stoke. OK, they played all right first-half at Arsenal.
I think they will do well to finish in the top five. I am not with Liverpool at all this year.
As heartbreaking as it is for Liverpool fans to accept that Harry is not "with them", they can take solace in the fact that Redknapp continued to say the following:
Having said that they will probably win the league.
Top, top analysis there.
When pressed for more on the subject, Redknapp pointed to the lack of characters in the dressing room, which is funny because character seems to be the only thing that really, truly matters to Brendan Rodgers.
They lost Steven Gerrard, their leader. What a player. They lost Jamie Carragher the year before. They’ve lost their characters.
Look at the two centre-halves on Saturday (Lovren and Skrtel). The left-back (Gomez) is a good young player who can’t kick with his left foot but he is playing at left-back.
You know it's a Redknapp criticism when no names are mentioned, just positions.
Harry then offered a rather unexpected parting line as he suggested the one club he wished he could have managed was in fact Liverpool, a thought which surely gives fans of the club an uncomfortable feeling in their stomach.
I love Liverpool Football Club, and if you said to me which team would I have loved to manage in this country it would be Liverpool, but I can’t see it this year.
We're assuming he means Liverpool having success is something he can't see this year, rather than him managing the club.
Maybe he would rate the squad more if Liverpool brought in Benoit Assou-Ekotto, Niko Kranjcar, Chris Samba, and Sandro in the summer transfer window, but alas they did not.
