Jamie Redknapp tells Liverpool to sign this player in the summer

Hull joined Burnley, Swansea and Bournemouth as the only clubs to have inflicted league defeats this season on Liverpool, who ironically have the best record against sides now in the Premiership’s top six.

“I hope he is there for six years, that means the club will have been successful”, Hamann said.

It wasn’t that long ago when they were in title contention and doing well in Europe, but now there is a legitimate chance that they might not even finish in the top four.

“We want their belief of course”. That’s what we have to change immediately.

‘A major disappointment, whether it was down to the manager or the board, was not getting any reinforcements in in January, ‘ said Carragher. But you could say: ‘Okay, we are not going to be champions, ‘ but the Champions League is an outstanding, big, big target.

With a few wins and solid draws in recent times against opposition like Bournemouth, and Manchester City, Hull went one further on Saturday at the KCOM and took a two nil victory over Liverpool.

Looking at the league only, there’s literally no results improvement whatsoever, but Rodgers’ team scored more; conceded fewer goals, and achieved more clean sheets in his first 85 games in charge.

“We have to show it’s not like this”. Here is the moment when these players will show if they are truly capable of playing for Liverpool, of thriving under the intense demands, or whether they wilt like some of those who have gone before them.

“You would expect them to do well in those games, they always do, but the majority of matches they have struggled in have come against teams in the bottom half of the table”. This week we had a really good performance (against Chelsea), but obviously we didn’t build on it.

Many, many players were connected with a switch to Anfield last month, including possible options at left-back, centre-back, central midfield and everywhere across the forward line. “It’s important we play and work as a team”.

“This is when you have to show fantastic attitude and fantastic spirit and we showed these again”.