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Lovren Admits He Has Not Found The Same Happiness At Anfield As He Had At St Mary's

Speaking to the Liverpool Echo Dejan Lovren has refused to accept the sole blame for the defensive debacle last season and admits that he is not as happy as he was at Saints.

Dejan Lovren has found that the grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence and the grass in the fields of Anfield Road has not lead to happiness for him in the last year after his body followed his head to Liverpool.

Speaking to the Liverpool Echo he refused to take the blame though, despite the fact that clearly Brendan Rodgers blamed him by dropping him and the majority of Liverpool fans did.

"It has been tough,” he told the Liverpool Echo, when asked about his first year on Merseyside. "I think it was a tough year for everyone at the club and the fans.

"I was quiet last season, I just wanted to concentrate on myself. I knew what was happening with how I was playing was not right and I didn’t want to speak about it. At Southampton it was different. There was a good atmosphere and I was happy. If I am not playing well, I cannot be happy. I didn’t pretend.

"But it is not Dejan Lovren-Liverpool, you know? I cannot defend all alone. It is 11 players. When we are good, everyone is good. When we are bad, everyone is bad, not just me. I think we need to look like this, not just put the pressure on me or point the finger. I don’t agree with this.

"I know what the papers were writing about me. I don’t want to have to listen to this again. We want to move on as a team. When we are better, it is because we will be doing all together good.”

These are comments that will not sit lightly with Liverpool supporters who feel that the player has not lived up to the high price tag placed on him and its a warning to Toby Alderweireld at Spurs that sometimes a club is right for a player and a so called dream move might turn out to be a nightmare.

Lovren might find that unless he finds his form fast in the coming season his time at Anfield might be coming to an end, certainly he will have competition for places this time and if he struggled to get in last seasons, this time around it will be harder especially if Liverpool add another central defender to the squad.

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