Kieran Gibbs

And so when you find yourself in bad positions and making bad mistakes and making poor decisions that maybe you didn't 24 months before or 18 months before, players will, sometimes it's a natural thing to try and look to your post and blame elsewhere.

And I don't think it's hard to, I think it's hard to argue.

no matter who you are, that Van Dijk hasn't done that this year to a lot of his teammates.

We've seen him do it to Canatti, who's made a lot of mistakes.

We've seen him do it to Kierkegaard, who's struggled.

We've seen him throw his hands up a lot.

And I think that's a consequence of him knowing that his legs are slowing down.

And we're seeing it on the other end as well with Mo Salah.

And it's unfortunate for Liverpool that those are two of the players that they gave the big bucks to.

But those are two of the... I mean, we can talk about Kerkis coming in and struggling.

We can talk about the midfield.

But those are two of the players who are the biggest earners who may have had one of the biggest drop-offs.

You know, all right, Canatti's dropped off as well.

But in terms of being a leader and being the goalscorer talisman up front...

You did not expect those two to fall off the cliff like they have.

No, it was Curtis Jones, was it?

It was next to him.

Curtis Jones was marking, was it Evan Nielsen?

Yeah.

And he was sort of, he almost shoveled Evan Nielsen into a little nudge.