https://twitter.com/cfbayern/status/1403328758929571849
Personally - beyond hearing his name, not seen him play, looked at his stats, seems decent. More box to box than a deep lying from what I’ve seen. But we all know that when Klopp brings a player in, he might look totally different once he’s been moulded, as we saw with Gini joining us to become a midfield cog over a goal scoring midfielder.
Some posts from the unreliable rumours thread below [for some reason you got open the quotes up to see the links/posts/video]
It’s worth watching some of the vids, as he’s not much of a goalscorer they instead focus on what he does actually do (rather than just sticking the ball in the net a la most striker highlight reels).
It looks like, similar to Gini, it’s near impossible to get the ball off him. His close control is insane. His speciality seems to be drawing opposition players in then evading them with a piece of skill and/or a forward pass to beat the press. From my limited viewing he looks like a cross between Gini and a proper playmaker.
Historically we have a very good relationship with Monchengladbach - or at least our fanbases do.
I’m sure it would be a much easier sell to their fanbase if they let him move to us rather than becoming the next German to go for a cut price to Bayern Munich.
Maybe not if we buy someone like this in addition to Hendo, Thiago and Fab. IMO he won’t get much of a look-in. of course he will get games, but maybe not as much as he would like.
He was excellent when played last year, and think there were extenuating circumstances of why he became used as infrequently as he was the last 1/4 of the season. Other than continuing to have problems physically I see no reason why he wont play a significant part next season.
Anyone coming in probably won’t be starting straight away, history has shown this to be accurate for the vast portion of players.
I then expect out first choice midfield (if we play 3 as we have) of Fabinho, Thiago, Henderson. With Jones as the next player in line…
Henderson is 31 in 6 days, so age is catching up with him so I expect his minutes to dwindle and Jones’ to increase.
@Limiescouse looked like growing pains, he had icepacks on his knees after most games… Must be a huge jump from minimal minutes to the intensity of this team (hence my 1st point above!)
