At some point, you can't really blame the personal (well you can but), it's clearly something more than that at Liverpool. It's at the point where you could have Bosscielny and Mertesacker as your CB pairing and still look awful at the back.
It reminds me of Arsenal a few years ago.
You need a Steve Bould.
We need a lot
A settled formation, preferably one that allows us to play 2 up top.
A player other than Gerrard in front of the back 4, or a babysitter for him
A new keeper
A new defensive coach
If we somehow addressed that, the back 4 would look much better imo. But the defense isn't even the problem at the moment, which says it all since they've been crap. Yesterday's match is probably the most inexcusably poor attacking display I've seen from us since Hodgson. No movement, no intensity, no effort, no quality, no bravery.
The only real chance we had was from a corner. Any decent team would have put Newcastle away yesterday, they were shite as well.