'Enough is enough'

'THIS LATEST PATHETIC EFFORT REPRESENTS THE LOW POINT OF A TORTUOUS CAMPAIGN'

- By IAN DOYLE

ENOUGH is enough. And as the Liverpool players trudged disconsolately from the Anfield turf after an utterly abject second-half humiliation, that there were so few home supporters remaining inside suggested the general consensus is likewise.

The applause for the hurting players was polite. While there was a murmur of jeers at the final whistle, there was no major show of dissent from the fanbase.

But every single person who witnessed this embarrassing horror show will surely now have the same thought. Liverpool boss Arne Slot is standing on the precipice.

While the suffering Kop's rendition of You'll Never Walk Alone in the 90th minute was perfunctory at most, it was still less halfhearted than the Reds’ woeful showing after the break.

Liverpool lacked belief, confidence, organisation and quality. But it was the absence of heart and fight - with some honourable exceptions - that was the most alarming aspect of a dreadful, dreadful, dreadful evening.

It was almost as though they didn’t want to know, the towel too easily thrown in.

Enough is enough. You can lose at Crystal Palace, Chelsea and Galatasaray. You can lose at home to Manchester United. Hey, you can even lose at Brentford. And you can definitely lose at Manchester City.

But you can’t surrender the League Cup by throwing out effectively a reserve team at home to Palace. You can't lose 3-0 at home to a Nottingham Forest side managed by Sean Dyche.

And you absolutely cannot be humbled in such meek fashion on your own patch by a PSV Eindhoven side who, with the greatest respect, will be nowhere near the business end of the Champions League this season.

A joint-heaviest home European defeat, it was a ninth loss in 12 in all competitions for the Reds. Almost all have been deserved.