4) Mark Lawrenson claims club are poor man’s Arsenal
The Anfield hero believes that the Merseyside outfit don’t have enough width and fans are expecting to be let down at some point during the campaign, he said in his Liverpool Echo column.
“We are a poor man’s Arsenal at the moment, in that you know this Arsenal will always let you down eventually,” wrote Lawrenson, “You know deep down they won’t win the league because, somewhere along the line, they will disappoint and disappoint greatly. This Liverpool are the same.
“The West Ham defeat underlined a problem that already concerns me: a worrying lack of width. Other than Jordon Ibe, we have no real wide players.”