Liverpool midfielder Christian Poulsen warned his team-mates that results must improve after admitting that he believes the club are currently in a "big crisis".
The Reds, who have agreed a takeover deal with New England Sports Ventures, are currently in the Premier League's relegation zone after a disastrous sequence of results at the start of Roy Hodgson's reign.
After a humiliating Carling Cup exit at the hands of League Two's Northampton Town, Liverpool were held at home by Sunderland in the league before slumping to defeat against Blackpool.
But while Hodgson has insisted that his club are not embroiled in a relegation fight, Denmark international Poulsen - a £6 million signing from Juventus - does not appear quite so confident.
"Liverpool are a big club and we should be taking all three points against Blackpool and Sunderland, especially with home advantage," Poulsen said. "But we only managed one point from the two games, and that shows you were are in big crisis.
"Certain results have not been good enough. I find it really difficult to come up with an explanation. We made mistakes and lost possession against Blackpool and Sunderland and they punished us with goals each time.
"I can already tell how big Liverpool are as a club. Everything is on such a large scale. Whenever we only draw a game, even when it is away, it is made to look like a defeat. That is the level of expectation with Liverpool, which sometimes takes you by surprise.
"We drew 0-0 in Utrecht in the Europa League and you would think some sort of catastrophe had happened. That was the reaction - yet we are top of our group, unbeaten on four points from two games."
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