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Gary Neville says Liverpool’s squad is now “vulnerable” and needs to get recruitment right in the summer transfer window. 

Liverpool spent £446m on Florian Wirtz, Alexander Isak, Hugo Ekitike, Giovanni Leoni, Jeremie Frimpong and Milos Kerkez but have struggled this season, with Arne Slot’s side fourth in the Premier League.

“Obviously, the fact that [Hugo] Ekitike, [Alexander] Isak, and [Mohamed] Salah are not playing. Those is three massive players,” Neville said on Sky Sports following the 3-2 loss to Manchester United.

“But just generally, throughout the actual team, the back-up at centre-half, the back-up at full-backs, the midfield, all of a sudden looks a little bit slower. 

“And you’re just thinking to yourself, it’s a glass-half-empty, glass-half-full conversation. And to be fair, you can have that conversation at any point after a defeat.

“But it’s the first time I looked at Liverpool’s team and thought, it does look quite shallow, that squad. And then they’re obviously going to lose Salah in the summer. 

“They’re going to have to do a little bit of a rebuild.,

“For the first time today [Sunday] in that first half, I thought, that does look vulnerable. And the squad and the bench look weak. 

“And I know they’ve got three players out. But it all of a sudden didn’t look like a team that was anywhere near the team that actually won the title.

“There’s a bit of a job to do there in terms of obviously getting the recruitment right again in the summer.”