Jamie Carragher: Liverpool miss 'MADMAN' outcast

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·29 January 2026

Jamie Carragher: Liverpool miss 'MADMAN' outcast

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Jamie Carragher has been talking about that idea to the Athletic. Was the summer rebuild actually done correctly or did they rip out the heart of the team?

“If you lose Luis Diaz and bring in Florian Wirtz, they are completely different players," said Carragher. "Diaz is a runner, he doesn’t have the ability of Wirtz.

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"But you are moving the team [in a different direction]. No one could argue that Darwin Nunez is a better footballer than Hugo Ekitike, but he just ran around like a madman at times.

"So there would be energy and power."