Liverpool legend launches into 'Is there any fucking danger' rant after latest setback

Graeme Souness has pounced on Liverpool suggesting they have forgotten a fundamental rule and saying no one is above a block".

Liverpool have been hampered by Napoli to start their Champions League campaign as the first real 'Klopp out?' have been asked.

The Reds have been below par in the opening weeks of the season, dropping nine points in six Premier League games to make a title challenge unlikely even before mid-September.

Jurgen Klopp has pointed to a series of injuries as part of the problem, but recently conceded that Liverpool 'have to sort of reinvent themselves'.

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Reds legend and Sky Sports pundit Souness believes there has been a drop in 'intensity' and pressure on 'closure'.

"You can talk to all the modern coaches and analysts you like, apply the latest buzz terminology, and fill those sports pages with all the data you can get your hands on - but the one non-negotiable part of winning football matches is to be first to the ball," he wrote in his column for the Daily Mail.

"Liverpool are not doing that at the moment. And that's why they are a mile away from the team we knew during Jurgen Klopp's time at the club.

'That first-to-everything intensity is why they've become winners again. They and Manchester City are by far the two best teams in the country to do this and no one else comes close to their intensity. They can destroy the lives of teams.

‘But they went from being a team that could hustle and wear down an opponent, from the first minute to the last, to suddenly second behind everything. By doing so, they seem to be vulnerable to all attacks.

“There are all sorts of reasons why this is being offered by the people with the data and the big theories. They will tell you about the Liverpool high line. About Mo Salah not looking like the same player he was. About Trent Alexander-Arnold appearing to come back as two of Napoli's goals went in, in that 4-1 loss on Wednesday night.

‘But Liverpool just don’t seem to have the same energy.

“I certainly haven't seen the same Salah. He signed the big deal he wanted and I really hope we don't see him half-sleeping over it.

“The need for intensity is a collective thing. It has always been so, since my time as a player at the club. They like to call it "squeeze" now, but when I was playing we called it "close".

"If one person doesn't, the whole system breaks down and you might as well give up and be a team that plays counter-attacking football.

“No one is above the team. No one is above a block. I was speaking recently of the afternoon at Coventry in 1983, where we were down 3-0 at half-time. It was just before half time when I let my mate Kenny Dalglish have it.

"I asked him, 'Is there an awful danger of you taking the ball and starting?' His response comes right back to me. "Is there a dreadful danger of you winning a tackle?"

“We continued this conversation in the locker room at halftime and with each sentence we grew closer and closer, to the point that we eventually had to be separated.

‘Joe Fagan and Ronnie Moran calmly poured each other a cup of tea and stood apart. We made their team speak for them.

“The point I'm trying to make is that you can't put Wednesday night, or Liverpool's average start to the season, on individuals. In the team I was part of, we worked together, we searched for the ball together and we won it together.