Liverpool a 'mess', says Van Dijk

LIVERPOOL, Nov 23 (AFP): Virgil van Dijk said Liverpool's players are letting manager Arne Slot down after the Premier League champions' collapse continued with a 3-0 home defeat to Nottingham Forest.

Liverpool have lost six of their last seven league games to slide into the bottom half of the table, putting Slot under pressure after the club's record spend of nearly £450 million ($590 million) in the transfer market.

"We are definitely letting him (Slot) down but we've let ourselves down as well," said Van Dijk.

"You look at yourself first and then you help each other, you help each other get out of this mess because at the moment it is a mess - that's just a fact.

"As the champions we can't be in the situation we are in right now. What are we going to do about it? We're going to try to turn it around and that's the mentality everyone should have."

None of Liverpool's big money summer signings have yet to make a positive impact.

Alexander Isak, who cost a British transfer record £125 million, is still to score a league

goal for the Reds and looked a shadow of the player he was at Newcastle during an ineffectual

68 minutes against Forest.