Lars Sivertsen

I think that was not an entirely uncontroversial decision by the club, especially in terms of how the fans and media will have viewed it.

So which loss?

The first half of the season, there's a lot of things going on.

There's the shock from the very tragic death of Diogo Jota that you've spoken about many times, Max, is something that we probably should add more to the equation of this season for Liverpool than we do.

There is Trent Alexander-Arnold leaving a player who was very integral to how they would build up the play before, a very important part of how they created attacks.

And you have the Mo Salah drop-off happening.

So there's clearly a lot of stuff going on.

That, for me, gives them maybe not a total free pass for the first half of the season, but you can understand why they went on that losing run.

But what you're looking for in the second half of the season, for me, is sort of, okay, this team is going to be different now.

It's not going to be Trent Alexander-Arnold pinging balls up to Mo Salah anymore, clearly.

It's going to have to morph into a different group, and you want to see these new signings.

find their place you want to see a system and a way of playing emerge that gives you a sense that okay moving forward slot is onto something here is creating something that makes us think we can fight for the title next season i don't think we've seen that in the second half of the season and they look really undercooked physically like there's been a lot of games where they just seem weak compared to this i wonder if the physical preparation hasn't been right it's like i've got a lot of question marks i'm not convinced and i wouldn't be shocked at all if they move on from him in the summer

Yeah, and with a long period of being very, very good for Atalanta, scoring a hat-trick in the Europa League final and just being part of their brilliant development the last few years.

No, it's great for him.

He's a very, very good player.

And also a good mid-season transfer, a good January transfer.

I think he's really added something to Atleti after coming in there.

We've touched on it already.

I don't think it's possible to get away from the flick line, the modern Maginot line here, because it has cost them again.

The Luckman goal comes from a ball in behind.