Merson: I'm worried for Liverpool - how long can they wait for Wirtz?

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I also like Bradley Barcola, but I'm not sure if he was what they needed.If you said to me, what's Barcola's game? And at the moment, I am not sure.He'll have his games, don't get me wrong, but I think they needed someone with more guile.Mohamed Salah, when he ripped it up, had that guile and that is why he was so successful at the club.You don't just need pace at Liverpool.

I think they'd still be playing now [without scoring], wouldn't they? And confidence is the thing as well.I say any footballer, I don't care if you're under 10s or professional, if you can bottle one thing, it's confidence.And at the moment, they just haven't got that confidence and the belief.

After those four games, I don't know who's beating Arsenal.They're just a hard, hard team to beat. So the pressure is off.And they just play with that feeling like they've had an email through and told them, 'you know what the score is going to be already'.I just watched them against Villa, and you watch them against Sunderland, and there's no panic.They play, it's patient.