Liverpool are set to end this season only with the Carabao Cup in the trophy cabinet. The Reds have missed out on the Premier League and Europa League titles, as well as the FA Cup.
Gary Neville insists that it's still a very good season for the Reds, considering where they were last summer.
The ex-Man United defender said, as quoted by Sky Sports: "I think always think you should judge a team based on what you thought at the start of the season and if you had said to me 'Liverpool will win a trophy and finish third'.
"I'd have said that was a bloody good season without a midfield at the start of the year and thinking that they were going to transition from this great team into this new team."
"Overall on Liverpool, I'm not sat here thinking that they've bottled it. I'm sat here thinking they were running a hundred miles an hour.
"I mentioned six or eight weeks ago that I felt like they were sprinting for their lives to stay in this title race because their performance levels were nowhere near the level of City or Arsenal's.
"You watch them all every week and Arsenal were at a really high level and City were getting to a really high level. Liverpool were just hanging on in there. I feel like it's just gone over the edge. It's just been too much for them.
"The talk of emotion helping you and the Jurgen Klopp farewell. That works but you have to get near the end for that.
"They just haven't been good enough. I think with Liverpool it's not a case of their mentality or anything like that, I think they've just gone as far as they possibly can and they're just drained."
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