Make no bones about it, Liverpool are in a full-blown crisis.
Nine defeats in 12. Ten goals conceded in three games. One goal scored in three games. £450million spent in the summer, just to be 13 points and 11 places worse off than this stage last season.
The fixtures are coming thick and fast, and so are the new depths plumbed, but nobody seems able to pinpoint exactly why the Reds are slumping so badly. The Arne Slot penitentiary has become their own prison.
Our Merseyside football men LEWIS STEELE and DOMINIC KING try to put their fingers on some of the major problems.