Honestly, looking at the current transfer rumours surrounding Liverpool, it feels like the recruitment team and Arne Slot have learned absolutely nothing from this season.
Because after watching Liverpool concede 53 goals this year, how is a dominant defensive midfielder not the absolute priority?
Any half-decent recruitment department would immediately identify the No.6 role as one of the biggest problems in this team.
Instead, supporters keep hearing about wingers.
More attackers.
More wide players.
As if that somehow magically fixes Liverpool’s defensive collapse.
Liverpool conceded more league goals than even:
- Crystal Palace
- Nottingham Forest
That statistic alone should set alarm bells ringing inside the club.
Because Liverpool are supposed to be competing for Premier League and Champions League titles — not defending worse than mid-table sides.
The biggest issue all season has been obvious.
Liverpool have lacked protection centrally.
Too often the midfield has been completely bypassed.
Too often the defence has been exposed in transition.
And too often opposition teams have cut through Liverpool far too easily.
That is exactly why an elite No.6 should be one of the first signings addressed this summer.
Supporters have watched Liverpool repeatedly struggle with:
- Counter-attacks
- Defensive structure
- Set-piece second balls
- Midfield control
- Physical duels
- Protecting leads
These are not winger problems.
These are spine-of-the-team problems.
Yes, Liverpool absolutely need attacking reinforcements too.
Nobody denies that.
But if the club genuinely believes adding a couple of wingers somehow solves everything, then many supporters will continue fearing the people in charge still do not fully understand why this season became such a mess.
Because football teams are built from stability first.
Especially Liverpool teams.
Under Jürgen Klopp, Liverpool’s best sides always had balance.
Whether it was Fabinho protecting the defence or relentless midfield control in transition, Liverpool always had structure behind the attack.
This season that protection disappeared repeatedly.
And the consequences were brutal.
What frustrates supporters most is that the problems were obvious for months.
Yet there still seems to be far more urgency around signing exciting attackers than fixing the team’s biggest weakness.
Because right now, Liverpool do not simply need more flair.
They need control.
Leadership.
Physicality.
Defensive intelligence.
And a midfielder capable of stabilising the entire team again.
Until Liverpool properly fix the spine of this team, supporters will continue fearing the same chaos repeats itself next season.
Because no matter how many talented wingers arrive, Liverpool are not competing seriously for major honours while defending like this.
Jamie (The Kopite View)
we need a no 6 to protect the defence because the balance would be better all-round sign someone asap