Jamie Carragher believes Liverpool are not playing like a top team after back-to-back defeats in the Premier League and Champions League - and has called on Arne Slot to "earn his money" and "fix" the issues.

Liverpool were beaten 1-0 by Galatasaray in Istanbul on Tuesday night, which followed the 2-1 defeat to Crystal Palace on Saturday.

The Reds showed a lot of the same issues from Selhurst Park in the Turkish capital - with high-profile mistakes at the back, defensive errors - and the situation was worsened by a double injury blow to goalkeeper Alisson Becker and striker Hugo Ekitike.

"I'm not watching a top team," Carragher told CBS Sports. "Liverpool aren't playing football at the moment, they are playing basketball. It is just end to end and I don't think top teams play like that.

"I expressed that to the manager early on, he'll know that a lot better than me. He is obviously a fantastic manager. But right now Liverpool went from, I would call them a workmanlike team last season, and they have sprinkled a little bit of stardust on it terms of the transfers that they have brought in.

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