The level of desperation, uh, uh, that PSG seem to have to get rid of him, I mean, uh, Campos, uh, Jo- uh, Jorge Campos actually phoned, uh-

uh-and by telling himself, listen, you need to now seek pastures new because we are no longer counting on you.

So the levels that they are actively pursuing, trying to move this lad out of their squad, I think the fee of 40 million euros feels generous.

I think Liverpool may be able to do an even greater diddle here because Well, this is it.

Well, no surrounded by endless dickheads.

And I was thinking about this on the way here, actually, because exactly what you've just said there, I am really, really concerned about the rise of the dickheads potentially in the Liverpool squads.

I'm a little bit concerned about that.

I loved him

Yeah.

And Phil Foden is someone that if you'd have tried to buy him then, if Real Madrid had come in for him at that point, you'd have been talking north of 120, probably closer to 150 million before City would have even entertained it.

But then we've seen Phil Foden, since then, fall out of the team.

Flattered to deceive, the goals dry up.

then he can come back in and show it again and so on and so forth.

And my point is, it's possible, it's possible that Wiertz is an unbelievable player that is more compatible though to someone like Foden than he is De Bruyne, for example.

We don't know.

And considering the importance of the job that they are there to do, surely those are the ones who you need the stability, you need the longevity, you need someone with a long-term vision.

Mm

... put together, uh, in a difficult situation.

Um, but ultimately it's his job then to, to coach those players and to, to make them better, and the opposite was happening.

So the idea of, of going into next season with that still hanging over us, it just felt a little bit hopeless.

Uh, and I think the club have got a responsibility to go o- off what the evidence that, that they have, and whether that's the eye test or whether that's the data, I think it was failing on, on all counts.

And it could have been a, a little bit of a dereliction of duty, I think, to just t- take what would've been the easier option, and just let him stay in post a bit longer and, and see what happens.

And I think the, the risks outray- outweighed the reward there.

No one's said, no one's had a go for a while.

[laughs]

Um, but I think he is the, the-- and the, the others are all lesser mercurials because you sign a player like him, and I think what you do, you've got a, a level of risk in terms of if you get it wrong in terms of the building blocks around him and how you're setting up your team, then he-- you're gonna spend the next five years chasing your tail, and he's gonna give you, uh, as many problems as he is solutions.

And I want Liverpool to avoid that and just go all in on the fact that they've signed the fella.

They believe in him.

They've invested a huge amount, uh, of, uh, financial resource in him.

Then they've gotta then answer those problems behind him to give him the platform to go and be the best version of himself.

And at the moment, it's no surprise to me, not just in terms of his first in the p- f- first, uh, season in the Premier League and adaptive, but also the, the, the team's not set up for him.

...he'd hold that end up.