‘It didn’t happen’: Ian Wright claims Liverpool have missed out on ‘massive’ transfer and it’s broken them

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Pundit Ian Wright feels that Liverpool would have ideally sold one of their main players for big money to regenerate the squad.

Wright told the Kelly and Wrighty Show that he thinks that Liverpool needed another sale on the scale of Philippe Coutinho.

But there have been financial issues across European football, exacerbated by the pandemic and of course that led some clubs to push for a Super League.

So Sadio Mane’s exit to join Bayern Munich, to take one example, did not raise the kinds of funds which could transform a squad.

Wright on Liverpool

He said: “I think it all goes back to the pandemic and not being able to move one of the main guys on for massive money like Coutinho.

“That’s Liverpool’s business.

“One of those would have gone for massive money, and that would have financed the next bit. But it didn’t happen.

“They have had to go a different way and now it’s broken them a little bit, because they’re going all in on Nunez.

“I think he will come good but what’s got to happen is the team has to come good to help him.”

Another potential issue for Liverpool is that they only seem to want to sell fringe players for top money, and keep them otherwise.

They do get some great deals, and offloaded the likes of Neco Williams in the summer, but other players could have gone but didn’t.

That has left Liverpool paying players who are not contributing much to their squad and missing the chance to at least raise something for them to balance the books.