What has gone wrong for Liverpool regarding Moises Caicedo and Romeo Lavia?

A transfer saga where the Reds came up short…

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00:00 Liverpool, starting with Liverpool, what exactly has gone wrong with the transfer saga with

00:05 Moises Quesada? Because a lot has come out every day as well as Romeo Lavia. What can

00:11 you tell us to try and calm the situation?

00:15 It started off so well, didn't it? The transfer window for Liverpool. All the midfielders

00:22 left and then they go and get Alexis McAlister first by a million and a few more, they go

00:28 and get Tom Ixson-Bosley. I think Liverpool are sore. Obviously, Liverpool had to react

00:32 to sales of Jordan Henderson for B and O and they haven't replaced him yet. As you say,

00:36 it's been pretty shambolic considering Liverpool's business over the past six, seven years has

00:42 been pretty much immaculate, the way they've gone about things really. Shrewd fees, sold

00:49 players for a decent amount of money. This summer, it's almost like the changes that

00:57 have happened in the backroom have caught up with them. Michael Edds was left last summer,

01:01 Julian Ward come in and Julian Ward leaves after a year and is posted as director of

01:06 football. Jord Schmeichel comes in and Jürgen Klopp maybe has to take a little bit more

01:10 of a front foot into negotiations. I'm not saying Jürgen Klopp's fault, I'm not saying

01:15 Jörg Schmeichel's fault or FSG's fault, it just seems like it's been a bit of a perfect

01:19 storm really. You have to look at it and think why have Liverpool sold both Jordan Henderson

01:25 and Fabinho before they've got a replacement in? Because that's what Liverpool's policy

01:29 is not usually like. It's what a lot of clubs' policy isn't usually like. You look after

01:33 yourself there. I know Jürgen Klopp, he wants to show a little bit of, I don't want to say

01:42 loyalty would be the wrong word, but he wants to give these players who've done so much

01:47 to him, he wants to be willing to let them say if they want to leave, then he'll say

01:53 'fine, you want to go, I don't want players who don't want to play for me'. But was that

01:57 the wrong decision? Now as you say, coming in for £110m for Casedo. It was funny because

02:03 at the press conference Jürgen Klopp said we've had a bit of acceptance but he never

02:07 was clear whether Liverpool were going to get him, he just said 'I don't know more than

02:13 that'. And then after the Chelsea game when he said Chelsea usually get what they want,

02:17 it was a clear indication to me that it wasn't just Casedo they were going to get, it was

02:21 Lafayette. It's not good for Liverpool from both the outside and probably the inside as

02:27 well I'm sure. John Henry was there at Stamford Bridge on Sunday and he's not probably too

02:33 happy with how things have played out. We've got two weeks left of the window and now Liverpool

02:39 are scratching their arm for a defensive midfielder. The problem is now the clubs know that they've

02:45 got £110m to spend. It's not like Liverpool have bought Brighton's price tag and gone

02:52 there's absolutely not a chance that we're paying that because Liverpool have been willing

02:56 to pay that. So they've firmly shown their hands and that is something that has not happened

03:01 in the past, certainly in the Jürgen Klopp era. And it's a real concerning situation

03:07 to be honest.