12 Worst Players Currently Playing For Premier League's Top 6

As a £25m centre-back whose manager's approach to defending can best be described as nonchalant, Croatian international Lovren is an easy target for callers of England's radio phone-ins - yet there is a kernel of truth to the charge that he is only a shadow of the player Liverpool thought they were buying from Southampton in 2014.

Lovren's three seasons at Anfield have probably seen more bad days than good, and though he is hardly helped by the walkabout midfielders who play in front of him, basic defensive mishaps of the kind he regularly makes are hard to dismiss as a problem of Klopp's making.

Binning the far more assured Mamadou Sakho for his apparent tardiness, however, is something the German may come to regret later in the season (if he isn't kicking himself already).