Jamie Carragher already struck the first blow on Florian Wirtz early in the season, stating that this might just be the Liverpool attacking midfielder’s true level. And after a disaster class in a 3-0 loss to Manchester City, the former Reds center back tore up the German international again.
Speaking on Sky Sports, the iconic pundit said of Wirtz and Bradley Barcola, “Koumas and Munoz were better than the two 100 million pound players!”
Barcola is at least new here and still adjusting, but Wirtz cost Liverpool 100 million pounds last year and has been around. And he is still a huge liability for the Reds, creating very little and almost never scoring or assisting.
Meanwhile, Munoz and Koumas made fewer negative plays, lost the ball less, and didn’t slow down attacks. Wirtz is destroying the whole system for Andoni Iraol and actively making other worse, whereas these young players are at least showing threat and being economical with the ball.
We are getting to the point where the Wirtz situation is untenable, and Carragher has no reason to go back on his initial assessment that this is the best we are going to see from Wirtz at Anfield.
And he stinks.
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THE TRIVELA EFFECT
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