Arne Slot's Liverpool sacking a shock but an elite manager would have fixed club last season, says Jamie Carragher

Jamie Carragher was shocked by Arne Slot's sacking but believes an elite manager would have fixed Liverpool last season.

Liverpool said "change is necessary in order for the club to keep moving forward" having secured Champions League qualification with only 60 points, their lowest total since 2015/16.

Liverpool had not intended to part ways with Slot during the season but came to the conclusion that a change of leadership was required after reassessing the situation at the end of the campaign - and it surprised Carragher.

"I was torn on Arne Slot," he said. "I would have almost backed any decision and I could see both sides of the argument, but it is a shock.

"I think an elite football manager, the absolute creme de la creme, probably finds a way of fixing Liverpool last season at some stage and making it better, but he wasn't helped with recruitment.

"You look at those players, have any of them done well? There's only (Hugo) Ekitike who's played well, none of the others have done well. You could put that on the manager, does he need to get more out of them?

"Should those players have done more? A lot more, yes. Should the people above them have given them a better squad going into this season? Yes.

"There's a lot of people to point the fingers at where Liverpool were last season, and also the players who were there the year before, a complete contrast in their performances."