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Liverpool's failure to sign Marc Guehi during the summer transfer window is one of the reasons behind the club's shaky run of form, according to former Premier League boss Sam Allardyce.
The Reds began the season with seven successive wins across all competitions, despite producing a number of unconvincing performances, but those shaky displays stopped producing wins shortly before the international break, as the Reds succumbed to three successive defeats.
The Reds' first loss of the season, away to Crystal Palace, was followed by further defeats on the road, by Galatasaray and Chelsea. Of the teams in the top half of the Premier League table, only Manchester United has conceded more league goals than Liverpool since the start of the season, and Allardyce thinks the Reds' defense is letting them down.
Allardyce speaking on Footy Accumulators' No Tippy Tappy Football podcast, in partnership with BOYLE Sports, said: "Liverpool's poor start wasn’t a poor start till just recently, but what's concerning about them is how much money's been spent on the team.
"And it appears that the biggest player of all hasn't been bought, and that's Marc Guehi from Crystal Palace, because they are defensively looking a little suspect.
"Liverpool have become a little leaky.
"Joe Gomez is a good player, but has been with Liverpool a long time, and that's it at center-half.
"You know what I'm like defensively, I'm the Mr. Negative in the world of football when they all say, ‘Oh, listen to that boring old fart. He's always talking about clean sheets and all that rubbish.’
"But if you don't get clean sheets, if you don’t have the best defence, then you don't win the league. And that will never change.
“It’s certainly not the Liverpool of last year, which only had one signing and they won the league. This year, how many signings, five or six?”
Allardyce does not think that Slot's side is worse off than it was last season, despite the club spending a huge amount of money during the transfer window.
He said: “The trouble is they’ve spent all this money and they’re no better. When I've talked about doing too much too soon before, finishing higher in the Premier League than you should do.
"You’ve beaten all the odds, and if you fall below that in the next season, then you're no good again.
“So, he's spent all that money and then the word starts ‘ooh we spent all this money and we’re no better.’”
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