Jamie Carragher has explained why Manchester United’s problems would not occur at Liverpool.

There has been a lot of talk about Manchester United’s troubles, both on and off the field. Despite a good run of league results, there are still doubts about manager Erik ten Hag, and supporters are waiting for news on Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s bid to buy an interest in the club, amid well-documented protests against the Glazers’ ownership.

On Tuesday, it was revealed that Manchester United had blacklisted four media sites over an article on Ten Hag’s relationship with some of his squad members. When asked about the story, Liverpool icon Jamie Carragher revealed why a comparable incident never occurred during his tenure at Anfield.

“I was at a club where I don’t think there is any other club like Liverpool, in terms of how supporters treat a manager,” Carragher stated on The Overlap’s Stick to Football show. “The Liverpool manager is like a God. If Liverpool is successful, it is always due to the manager.

“Right now, it’s Klopp, Shankly, Paisley, Dalglish – all these names.” So the manager at Liverpool has a lot of power, I always think.

“So those things never really came out against the manager at Liverpool when I was there because the fans and the board were always really with the manager.” It wouldn’t be a case of asking the players what they thought of the manager; it would never happen. These kinds of things were never published.”

Carragher saw parallels between Liverpool’s regard for the manager and Sir Alex Ferguson’s reign at Manchester United. Gary Neville, who played for Ferguson his entire career, expressed his opposition to Man United players speaking out against the club.

“The biggest betrayal you can have in a football dressing room is when players are going to the media to undermine the manager and other players in your dressing room,” he went on to say. “Honestly, that is f****** unforgivable.”