Gary Neville is absolutely spot on about 2 Liverpool players - things HAVE to change

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As Liverpool fans, it feels wrong to want to agree with Gary Neville, but his comments about Florian Wirtz and Alexander Isak are spot on. Speaking on Sky Sports after the game, Neville didn’t hold back in his criticism of Wirtz and Isak, saying they must be doing more as Liverpool’s two most expensive signings in history: “The big thing for Liverpool is they’ve got this quarter-of-a-billion-pound front two, Isak and Wirtz and bloody hell, we’ve been kind to them.

I want to put a rocket up him because there’s ability there, there’s talent there, the understanding of his position.” Criticism of Florian Wirtz and Alexander Isak is fair Neville has provided plenty of strange Liverpool-related takes in the past, but in fairness to him, it is hard for even the most ardent Wirtz and Isak fan to disagree with him. Against Newcastle, both Wirtz and Isak were insipid – the German only played for an hour before he was substituted – playing a part in a hugely underwhelming all-round performance by Liverpool.

Every footballer is different, so it is hard to make them change their character, but there is a meekness about Wirtz and Isak that doesn’t exactly inspire confidence. Both are wonderful footballers when they want to be – Wirtz for his intelligence and technical brilliance, and Isak for his elite finishing – but they are a far cry from that right now.