00:00Let's talk about following verse, because Stevie, you're more positive than maybe, particularly Jamie Carragher, maybe I am, and watching
00:06maybe the rest of us around this table, 120, 130 million, whatever it was, obviously a good footballer, but you
00:14think he's going to come good. Where's that confidence come from?
00:17I'm not denying that he's underperforming, and that we should have seen an awful lot more in terms of the
00:22price tag and what have you, but I just think that there's a chance, and it's happened previously, where players
00:31can turn it round. I think he's got the talent to turn it round, but his confidence is short at
00:36Liverpool at the moment, you can see it when you watch him up live, he's giving the ball away, simple
00:40balls that he wouldn't give away, and I think at times he's maybe not shown when normally he's full of
00:45confidence.
00:45I watched him for Germany, different player, completely different player.
00:48Is that because of players that he's got?
00:50Maybe, maybe. I think you need to find a solution.
00:56What is that?
00:58Ekertike was good with him.
00:59Well, listen, the problem Liverpool have got is Ekertike's missing, Isaac's been a bit flaky of late, Gakpo's injured, so
01:05at the moment, Gary, you probably can't do that, but when you start getting a few bodies back, I don't
01:10think it'd do any harm to come out and look in, and you know, he needs to be looking at
01:13his clips in training, in the games,
01:15the balls he's given away, and he needs a staff and his manager now to grab him. He's a talent,
01:20he's young. You can't give up on these people and say, oh, because he was at 110 million, oh, he's
01:25gone, and brush him aside and be emotional about it.
01:27He needs help, he needs support.
01:28Is there a cut-off point, Jim?
01:30Yes.
01:30I'd say so.
01:31Is there a cut-off point when you say to a player?
01:32I'd say so.
01:33I'd say the end of the season, if the form's still the same and he's underperforming and not delivering come
01:38the end of the season, he's had two seasons then.
01:40I think it's a bit different then, but at the moment now, I would say, I'm not saying for a
01:44Liverpool point of view, I'm just talking about a talent in general who's that age, with a big price tag.
01:49It's difficult to play for Liverpool, it's difficult to play in the Premier League, there's a big jump.
