Gary Neville believes Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp isn't being supported enough by owners Fenway Sports Group.
The Reds are currently locked into a transfer battle with Southampton over their 19-year-old midfielder Romeo Lavia
their Premier League rivals have equally bolstered their ranks even beyond the build-up to the 2023-24 campaign.
The likes of Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester United and Manchester City have splashed out on additions.
the former Red Devils defender thinks that the inflated market has caught the Liverpool owners by surprise to the point where they can't act.
Neville
"I think with Liverpool, [in] the last two years Chelsea have spent huge, Arsenal have spent huge, [Man] United have spent huge, City are City,"
"I think it's caught the owners out, they haven't got the money to be able to compete.
"I think the market has shocked them, the [Jude] Bellingham £100m deal, the [Declan] Rice £100m-odd deal, [Enzo] Fernandez, [Moises] Caicedo, they're [Liverpool] at that £50m or £60m and they're comfortable there but I think they're at their point where they've hit the ceiling lower than where the other four or five clubs are at."
Neville continued:
"It's going to hit them like a ton of bricks at some point. The manager is shielding them, he's doing the best job out of anybody I believe in the last seven or eight years with the budget he's had and the spend, but he can't keep doing it.
"He needs that money to be going to compete, they should be going and getting Caicedo for him and going 'there you go, that's dealt with and sorted'.
"They're trying to pinch someone from Southampton for £40m, he's a good player, but Jurgen Klopp needs the real deal. If you're talking about challenging Manchester City, they can't do it with a player with potential, they need a player that's real.
"I do think it will come back on the owners. They're not investing in the team at the levels the other four or five teams are, they're just not."
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