Stoke City midfielder Charlie Adam has taken aim at former teammate Xherdan Shaqiri.
The Swiss left Stoke for Liverpool last week.
And former Reds playmaker Adam, speaking with talkSPORT, identified the Swiss midfielder as one of the 'so-called big players' his criticism had been aimed at.
"Was he one of them? Oh, definitely," he said.
"When the chips are down you look at your big players, you want your big players to bring magic in one moment in the season, and at times we felt like the so-called big players in the squad never turned up for us and never performed.
"Yeah, everybody else could help, but for all the plaudits to so-called bigger players we getting from certain members of the management staff last season - they weren't producing."