KLOPP NOT MUCH COP, SAYS INCE
Wenger now admits stars Ozil and Sanchez might go in next window
FORMER Liverpool midfielder Paul Ince has criticised manager Jurgen Klopp and his stuttering Anfield revolution. Liverpool host arch-rivals Manchester United tomorrow lunchtime with a seven-point gap between the sides, and Ince reckons it is a game the German, left, cannot afford to lose as he aims to prove his first two years in the hotseat have not ARSENE WENGER has performed a shock about-turn after revealing Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil could now be sold in January. The Arsenal manager has always insisted he would keep his star duo until the end of their contracts, even if it meant losing them for nothing. But now he has dramatically changed his stance on the pair, after being in contract talks with them for over a year. When asked if he had been wasted. “Klopp hasn’t found the right formula for his team yet and, after this length of time at the club, with the players he has, he really should have,” said Ince, who also spent six seasons at Old Trafford.
“This game is United’s first acid test. They’ve been demolishing teams and, no disrespect to the others, this is a big step up. To go to Anfield is placed a deadline for them to sign new deals, Wenger said: “No, not at the moment. Once you are in our kind of situation, we have envisaged every kind of solution.”
And asked if that could mean they could leave in January he said: “Yes, it’s possible.”
Wenger’s change of tune could well be linked with the dip in form suffered by both players, with Sanchez especially suffering failure when his country Chile were