Stan Collymore has questioned Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp for his decision to offload Mamadou Sakho during the January transfer window.
Sakho did not feature at all for Liverpool during the first half of the campaign after a falling out with Klopp in pre-season and the Frenchman was then duly offloaded on loan to Crystal Palace on the winter.
With Liverpool being forced to play James Milner at left-back and Lucas Leiva in central defence, Klopp's decision to dispense with Sakho is certainly a very risky one and ex-Reds striker Collymore has questioned the Liverpool boss' logic of offloading the talented defender despite Liverpool being short on numbers at the back.
"What surprises me is that every time Liverpool lose a few games it's their owners, FSG, who get the rollocking from fans," Collymore wrote in his Daily Mirror column.
"But FSG didn't make the decision to play James Milner at left-back, FSG didn't make the decision to play Lucas Leiva at centre-half and FSG didn't make the decision to let Mamadou Sakho, the club's best in-box defender, go when they still needed him.
"That was down to Klopp, because his pride was more important than putting an arm round Sakho's shoulder and telling him he was the best thing since sliced bread.
"He should have used him until the end of the season and then biffed him off. That would have been the clever thing to do, but Klopp knew better. And in booting him out of the club, he basically left himself with a back four that's almost unfit for purpose."