‘He’s not done it’: Harry Redknapp delivers brutal verdict on Liverpool’s deadline day decision

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Harry Redknapp told Transfer Deadline Day on Sky Sports that Takumi Minamino has ‘not done it’ at Liverpool after they allowed him to join Southampton on-loan.

In perhaps one of the surprise and late moves of the window, Liverpool’s £7.25 million 2019 signing [BBC Sport] departed Anfield for some much-needed game time.

Even though Jurgen Klopp has been making several changes to his Liverpool squad in recent weeks, Minamino has only managed to muster six minutes of Premier League football since the Reds put seven past Crystal Palace in mid-December.

Redknapp was brutally honest when assessing Minamino’s temporary departure and made it clear that he’s not needed if Klopp is allowing him to leave.

“Well, he’s not done it at Liverpool, has he?” said Redknapp. “If Liverpool fancied him they wouldn’t have let him go.

“They wouldn’t be letting players go out on loan if they weren’t any use to the squad.

“They are in the Champions League, they are in everything, aren’t they? Also looking to win the title again.

“If he [Klopp] felt that he was of any use then he would have kept him there. But his form hasn’t been good and he hasn’t looked good enough, to be fair, at the moment.”

Minamino could argue that he has been pretty unlucky during these past six weeks and perhaps deserving of more minutes on the pitch.

He started that thumping win at Palace, assisted during the game, and since then, he warmed the bench for most of the time.

Even though Liverpool went through a period without scoring, Klopp still didn’t even provide the versatile attacker with minutes off the bench, but he will get plenty of that at St Mary’s.