Liverpool legend Barnes slams Rooney over Van Dijk claim: 'I don’t think there's been a dip at all'
Liverpool tale John Barnes owns hit back at Wayne Rooney, as his altercation with Virgil van Dijk lingers to rumble on after he served up some suggested dilemmas on his BBC podcast.
Former England and Manchester United captain Rooney crook Liverpool captain Van Dijk and his crew-chum Mohamed Salah of snatching their foot off the petrol after they signed effective contemporary covenants with the Anfield club last summertime.
“Virgil van Dijk and Mohamed Salah, they’ve signed contemporary bargains yet I donned’t reckon they’ve seriously pioneered that crew this period,” said Rooney. “I reckon physique language notifies you a bunch, and I reckon we’re savoring mildly miscellaneous physique language from the two of them.
“They are the optimal two gamers in that crew and if their physique language is not proper, that influences every person else. I might be notorious on this, yet if I was a Liverpool fan or the manager, that would be a vast top priority for me.”
That discharged up a warmed controversy in between Van Dijk and Rooney when they met on the touchline after Liverpool’s Victors League win against Real Madrid last week, with the Dutch protector snatching his strategy to run-away inflation the complaint coming his means as he challenged the previous demonstrator that was functioning as a cosmetic surgeon for Amazon.com Prime TV.
Presently Anfield icon Barnes owns oriented Rooney was illinformed with his snipes, as he chatted exclusively to Football365 with Video clip Player.
“I donned’t reckon that’s the situation with Van Dijk,” prompted Barnes, that won two league titles with Liverpool in the late 1980s. “I donned’t reckon there owns been a dip at all for Virgil, yet we have been here before with human beings evaluating him.
“I bear in mind after he obtained his knee injury (in October 2020), human beings were adage he is not the horribly same gamer when he came back, yet the actuality then was the crew was tinkering differently and the defence was more disclosed. It had inextricably nothing to implement with him not being as significant.
“Just as, what’s taking place owns obtained inextricably nothing to implement with him wrapping up a contemporary contract. It’s to implement with a contemporary crew coming together, contemporary gamers uncovering a means to tinker in this Liverpool crew and gamers receiving made service of to a contemporary rural, a contemporary league.
“Individual have inspected on your own Salah as nicely, yet owns a miscellaneous equilibrium with Trent Alexander-Arnold zero much longer there to tinker behind him and it points ofview Mo is receiving fewer chances. It’s obtained inextricably nothing to implement with contemporary covenants.”
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Liverpool’s diligent 3-0 defeat at Manchester Municipal spot on Sunday beamed a unfavorable limelight onto the faltering Premier League winners as conveniently as again, with previous Manchester United captain Roy Keane speedy to suggest this is already a meltdown for Arne Connector’s crew.
Yet Barnes opines Connector and his contemporary sort crew were constantly visiting require time to recognize their feet after a summertime when the club invested £450m to indicator some vast-name gamers as he prompted skeptics that have been speedy to rush to supposing to grip their fire.
“It’s not a meltdown, yet we are going wearing a straining period at this time,” interfered Barnes. “I really felt we were coming out of it with the profitability against Aston Villa and Real Madrid, yet then we had the Male Municipal spot output and human beings ask misgivings again.
“Male Municipal spot played seriously, seriously nicely. That’s arguably the immaculate they have played all period and we squandered 3-0. I donned’t equate that with going back to before the Real Madrid and Villa video game, when we squandered 5 galleries and it was horribly straining.
“I reckon Liverpool will receive more outlined to in which they were against Villa and Real Madrid relocating onward. They are eight times off the optimal, not far off 3rd place, so this is not a meltdown.
“This is a contemporary crew, human beings are failing to remember this. 5 contemporary gamers came in and that points ofview it will swipe some time for them to come to be aware the mechanism and for the manager to recognize the proper equilibrium.
“They are tinkering a much more Dutch-panache of football contrasted to Jurgen Klopp’s rock and rumble brand of football. It was the horribly same gamers as Klopp had last period, yet Connector modified the means the crew played and they won the title.
“Presently we have a totality contemporary shebang of gamers coming to Liverpool and it will swipe time for them to conform. Arne Connector owns to sort at whether they can tinker the sort of football he wants and he criteria some time to job it all out. The trouble is, zero one avails time in football any type of more.”
