Liverpool news: Jamie Carragher urges Jürgen Klopp to sign Joe Hart as Simon Mignolet and Loris Karius are 'a problem'

Mignolet let in Jon Walters' header during Liverpool's 4-1 victory over Stoke and Carragher believes that neither goalkeeper is good enough to hold up the club's title challenge

Joe Hart is currently on loan with Torino but Jamie Carragher wants Liverpool to sign him in January (Getty)

Jamie Carragher has urged Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp to move for Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart in the January transfer window, and warned that he may not get another chance to win the Premier League he fails to address the side’s obvious problems in goal.

Carragher looked on as Liverpool went behind against Stoke when Jon Walters beat Simon Mignolet with a relatively simple header. Liverpool fought back to secure a comfortable 4-1 victory thanks to goals from Adam Lallana, Roberto Firmino, Daniel Sturridge and a Gianelli Imbula own-goal, but Carragher was unable to look beyond his former side’s issues in goal.

Mignolet has only just been recalled to the first team after Klopp elected to drop Loris Karius, having taken the decision to take the German out of the firing line after a string of high-profile mistakes.

But as Carragher explains, Klopp brought Karius to the club because he could not trust Mignolet to perform to the level required to maintain a Premier League title challenge, and the former defender has urged Klopp to move swiftly in the transfer window to sign Hart from City – though he is currently on loan with Italian side Torino.

“The goalkeeper has to save it,” Carragher said on Sky Sports. “Liverpool have a goalkeeping problem. It's not just one individual. The reason Karius was brought in was because Simon Mignolet wasn't good enough but he's now gone back to him.

“Whenever a Liverpool goalkeeper is asked to make saves he should make, they're going in. Yeah, you can say its poor defensively but at times you want your goalkeeper to bail you out. That's what he's there for.

“If somebody said to me ‘the window's open, you can go and get Joe Hart’, I would do it. If I was Jürgen Klopp I would do it. It is a great chance Liverpool have got at the moment [to win the league].”

Carragher’s motivation for urging Klopp to move quickly – and not wait until the summer when Hart’s loan deal with Torino expires and he returns to England – is that he believes the likes of Antonio Conte and Pep Guardiola will be even stronger next season once they’ve had a year in the Premier League under their belts.

“It may be different next year, with European football coming in,” Carragher added.

“Managers have come into this country with another year's experience. Conte is flying but if you think of someone like Pep Guardiola and the investment the other teams are going to have.

Jurgen Klopp has come up against Joe Hart a number of times during his management career (Getty)

“Jürgen Klopp, if you're talking net spend, has virtually spent nothing. He's done a remarkable job but the position Liverpool are in, if they get the chance to get a goalkeeper with Premier League titles, you do it.”

Chelsea have also been linked with England No 1 Hart, though their interest is believed to be dependent on Real Madrid launching a summer move for current goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois.