Enough glimpses within the very short acclimatization time to see why Liverpool wanted to pay this much.
Isak should be a VVD / Alisson level transfer.
The other two were well established as being on the top lists on their respective positions before we pulled the gun on them. Same with Isak. Heās clearly in the top 5 CFs currently playing. Probably only Alvarez comes close.
The balls just sticks to him when he receives it in traffic, doesnāt it? Beautiful to watch. I swear a couple times Wirtz was just seeing if he could over hit a pass to Isakās feet (and found out he couldnāt).
Dunno what Sky/ITV were trying to make out showing that exact clip of him evidently doing warm downs at half time.
Think we are seeing why striking and having no pre-season isnāt recommended.
Looks so rusty its unreal. OK, we arenāt playing well which isnāt helping but he needs to get up to speed ASAP
To be fair, he needs to actually get the ball passed to him in attacking areas.
Strikers feed off scraps in this teamās set-up. For all his faults it was the same for Nunez.
Weāve paid over Ā£100 million for this fella and heāll spend most of his time outside the box looking to get involved.
Maybe we now have to change the way we play and the focus of our attack as under Jurgen and last year our goal attacking wise was to get our wide players in to positions to score.
Now with an aging Mo and 2 very good CFās we have to devise a way of playing to get them on the ball in areas that will hurt the opposition.
I watched the game Sweden - Switzerland the other night. Itās a bit like with Wirtz right now: you can see the potential. Heās incredibly quick for such a tall player, and can make a decisive pass or a run at any time, and you can also see that heās the type of players who can turn a game in a flash-second. He hit the post during the first half, and Switzerland were lucky on that occasion.
However, his quality appeared only in minuscule glimpses. The rest of the time, he was anonymous, just like his team-mate Gyokeres and all the others. To be fair, the whole Swedish team lacked fighting spirit, or mental steel. They looked soft.
They play Kosovo at home tonight, their last chance to qualify from that group. Lose or even draw this game, and they are out.
Sweden lose at home against Kosovo. Isak wasnāt up to it, just like every Swedish player. Kosovo were far better than them tonight.