
DANNY MURPHY has told Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez to stop his policy of dumping players with the club in their hearts or risk failing to bring success back to Anfield.
Murphy says he has found more unity among the players at his new club Charlton than he ever saw at Liverpool.
And the former England midfielder says much of that is down to there being too many foreign players at Anfield and not enough who know exactly what it means to play for Liverpool.
Murphy said: "At Liverpool it was difficult because you had so many nationalities and cultures there, a lot of lads didn't play golf or didn't want to do go-karting.
"They want to do their own things so you don't have that closeness. It doesn't mean players don't get on but inevitably, if you have different types of people at a club, you are going to have more groups.
"But at Charlton I have felt a togetherness that I haven't experienced for a long time.
"I was conscious of the fact every time I played against Charlton the lads seemed to be in it together. You don't always see that in teams.
"You spend 90 per cent of the time on the training pitch so it was important to be around players I could communicate with and primarily, staff I could communicate with.
"I haven't worked under an English manager for a long time and I wanted that clarity of understanding of what they wanted from me."
Murphy says Benitez (above) will find it harder to win things if he continues to dump the likes of himself, Michael Owen and Emile Heskey in favour of Spanish signings.
He added: "Of course you can have a successful team without English players, but it becomes more difficult. Fans of a club like Liverpool need to have some heroes who are one of their own, like Robbie Fowler or Steven Gerrard.
"Now Jamie Carragher and Gerrard are really the only two left who know what it means to play against Manchester United.
"I would never disrespect the players who are there. But if you come from another country, it is nearly impossible to gauge the enormity of what it means to lose to Manchester United.
"Those lads won't know what it means to the fans every day at work. I'm not saying they don't care, of course they do, but they don't know what it means like I do.
"Similarly, the manager doesn't know what it means like I do. Benitez is a winner, he's proved that at Valencia and I'm sure he'll do a great job. but he hasn't got the upbringing that I've got.
"He couldn't tell me how Liverpool and United have got on for the last 15 seasons - I could. He couldn't tell me he's cried when Liverpool lost the league the night Michael Thomas scored his last-minute goal for Arsenal. I did. That's the difference.
"And when you lose too many of them, it has an effect.
"United have been the most successful team in England for 10 years - why? For me, it's because they had the Nevilles, Scholes, Butt, Becks, Keane, Giggs - British mentality, players who know what Manchester United means.
"Arsenal's best two players are Henry and Vieira, the two best players in the world, but behind them they have Campbell. And don't forget they had an English core for a long while with Seaman, Adams, Keown, so they know.
"Who are Chelsea's two best players? Lampard and Terry.
"I am not saying that because Liverpool haven't got five or six English players they are not going to do well, I'm just saying it will be more difficult because they don't have that mentality.
"If you had five Stevie Gerrards and six Jamie Carraghers in the side, I'd put money on them to win the league, because they know - and that's the difference for me."
Murphy admits he is yet to find his best form since making his £2.5million move to Charlton but promises he will not hide from the challenge.
As he looked ahead to tomorrow night's visit of Blackburn he said: "I have my own expectations of what I should and shouldn't be doing.
"I'm a realist, I don't think I am going to be able to go into every game and boss the game. It doesn't happen that way.
"At Charlton, I'm being looked on as one of the more senior players who are expected to rise above it when everyone else is having a bad game - though against Southampton it coincided with me having a bad game.
"I have to take that, I have broad shoulders and I can take it. That's part of the reason why I came here - and why the gaffer wanted me here. I try to get on the ball and make things happen. Sometimes it doesn't happen, but I'll never hide.
"They haven't seen the best of me down here - far from it."