Jamie Carragher sticks up for FSG over trio contract saga

Jamie Carragher sticks up for FSG over trio contract saga

Trent Alexander-Arnold sips from a water bottle throughout Liverpool vs PSG (Picture by Julian Finney/Getty Photos)

Liverpool nonetheless haven’t secured new offers for Trent Alexander-Arnold, Virgil van Dijk, or Mohamed Salah, leaving them ready no prime membership desires to be in, doubtlessly dropping three of their largest stars for nothing.

For a membership that has been run so effectively over time, it’s shocking to see them on this predicament. Alexander-Arnold has already determined to affix Actual Madrid this summer time, whereas negotiations with Van Dijk and Salah are ongoing however with none actual breakthrough.

Naturally, questions are being requested about how FSG and the Liverpool board have let it come to this.

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Like each Liverpool fan, Jamie Carragher isn’t glad concerning the thought of Alexander-Arnold leaving. The suitable-back has been a key determine at Anfield for years, and the truth that he’s an area lad solely made him extra beloved.

Jamie Carragher defends FSG amid criticism from Gary Neville

Gary Neville was in disagreement (Picture by Catherine Ivill/Getty Photos)

On the Keep on with Soccer podcast, Ian Wright put the query to Carragher – ought to FSG take the blame for the contract mess involving these three gamers? The previous Reds defender, nevertheless, had a special view from Gary Neville on the matter.

Wright: “Jamie, what about FSG? Something to do with FSG and the truth that they let it get to a spot like this?”

Neville: “Completely!”

Carragher: “No, please, no, no, no. I’ve defined this. Cease it. I’ve defined this one million occasions.”

Neville: “Liverpool are the one membership who’re allowed to run their gamers contract all the way down to zero, however they’re nonetheless doing okay? Three of the very best gamers on the planet have gotten contract operating out, however Liverpool are doing a fantastic job managing that? I’m sorry, I can’t settle for that.”

Carragher: “The Trent state of affairs, he has positively, as all of us would, used that state of affairs to his personal benefit. ‘How can I signal? I don’t know what the brand new supervisor is like, I don’t know the way profitable we’ll be sooner or later.”

Neville: “I’m not having a go on the people who find themselves there on the membership now, I’m having a go on the membership over the past three years not seeing three of the very best gamers in Europe and on the planet being signed up.

“You could possibly’ve been the tea woman, the equipment man at Liverpool that made the choice to maintain these three and provides them a brand new contract. You didn’t must be the sporting director.”