LIVERPOOL ace Curtis Jones didn’t mince his words after another “unacceptable” loss to PSV Eindhoven in the Champions League.
The Reds suffered a 4-1 thrashing to PSV on Wednesday at Anfield, which sealed their worst run of results since 1953 – the last time they sustained three consecutive defeats by at least three goals.
The reigning Premier League champions have now lost nine of their last 12 matches across all competitions after two straight 3-0 losses to Manchester City and Nottingham Forest.
Jones, 24, faced the media after the most recent loss to Eindhoven and didn’t hold back.
So much so that the midfielder used an expletive-laden remark to explain how difficult of a spot Liverpool have really found themselves in.
Jones told RTE: “I don’t have the answers. Honestly, I don’t. I’m saying that to everybody. It’s just unacceptable.
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“I don’t even have to wait to think about it. I’m past being angry inside. I’m at the point now where I just don’t have the words.
“It’s hard because I’m playing for the team I support. I’m a fan, and I’ve seen this club all my life.
“In a long, long time, I haven’t experienced a Liverpool team going through a period like this with results like these.
“But at the end of the day, we still have that badge on our chest. And until that badge is gone, we’re always going to fight.
“We’re going to try and get this team back to where it needs to be, show everyone again what this club is about and why people call it the best team in the world.
“But right now, we’re in the s*** and it needs to change.”
Jones doubled down on his brutally honest self-assessment in another interview where he suggested the team – him included – are being too “nice”.
The England international is adamant this needs to change and the players have to rediscover their killer instinct to fight like “absolute dogs” again.
Jones told CBS: “You just want to be a man out there and you just want to tackle someone and just be a dog out there.
“It’s got to be on me and the rest of the lads to change this around to not be so nice where teams are coming here thinking, ‘We’re gonna win here and score two, three, four goals’.
“This used to be a place that you hated to come – with the fans and how we’re going to play and how we’re going to press and be absolute dogs.
“Now we hardly even play. There’s times where we do play but off the ball stuff… I think that is the stuff that has to change.”
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