Jamie Carragher believes the Liverpool players were responsible for Roy Hodgson getting the sack.
The longest-serving player at Anfield insists poor performances were the reason the club had to end the manager's reign after just six months.
Hodgson never really won over the club's supporters and won just 13 of his 31 games in charge but Carragher says the players should shoulder the blame for his sacking.
He pointed to the fact that things had not gone well the season before and the uncertainty under former owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett, but ultimately believes the buck stops with him and his team-mates.
"We'd finished seventh the year before which is obviously why Rafa went in the end and obviously we felt we were better than seventh and the squad was better than finishing seventh, but we were thinking with a new manager it might change," he told Goals on Sunday.
"So at that moment we were looking to build something, new players were getting involved, but you could say that Rafa had been there a long time and it was still his team really.
"But if you have not done that well for two years, it's not the manager's fault. You've got to look at the squad and ask, as a group of players, are we doing enough or are we good enough?
"Sometimes as a group you're not good enough and I think that's why new players have been brought in, in January."
Carragher believes that the sale of Javier Mascherano to Barcelona was another big factor that worked against Hodgson.
Liverpool have since sold Fernando Torres to Chelsea but with Andy Carroll and Luis Suarez coming in and the long-standing ownership issues now a thing of the past, he says Kenny Dalglish already has more of a chance than his predecessor.
"It looks good now, with Andy Carroll and Suarez and the new owners coming in," he said. "Don't forget Roy had to deal with, as did Rafa, the last owners we had.
"I think it's fair to say everyone is a lot happier now and I am sure that will make it a lot easier for Kenny."
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