Timo Werner is not good enough for Liverpool

Timo Werner is not good enough for Liverpool.

Timo Werner would NOT get into the Liverpool starting line up, according to Reds legend Jamie Carragher.

Carragher was discussing the German striker on his Sky Sports show Monday Night Football, after watching him toil away during a 3-1 win for new club Chelsea.

Liverpool had been heavily linked to Werner for the past year or so, but stalled over making an official offer due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which allowed Chelsea to swoop. The failure to sign the promising player angered Liverpool fans who saw him as the world class star we need to challenge the current front three.

But with Chelsea labouring to a season-opening win over Brighton and their new signing working hard without showing much else, Carragher has said that Werner would currently be doing little more than warming the Liverpool bench.

"“Right now, he wouldn’t get in the Liverpool front three,” Carragher was quoted as saying in The  Echo.“Watching him for Leipzig, you think about how much he loves that left channel. He can play left of the front three, but predominantly, he will be the central striker.”"

There is no doubt that Werner is blessed with great talent and the natural ability to score goals, but he will need time to settle into the rhythms of English football, and even then there is no guarantee that the goals will flow.

Plenty of expensive and talented footballers have come to Premier League for big money only to disappear just as quickly.

I am not saying that I never wanted Timo Werner at Anfield because I did. However, for whatever reason, Liverpool didn’t think he was worth the risk, and suggestions he would have slotted straight into a title-winning Liverpool side are pretty far from the mark.

We have to trust the process and realise that Klopp will never force a panic buying situation. The club will need to strengthen soon we all know it, but if the Gaffer is happy to wait for the moment to do so then we should all be just as happy to wait with him.