Thank you sir!
Really dislike it when peeps make blanket negative comments about players without understanding or recognizing the full context, or balancing the good and the bad.
Our equalizer yesterday came from his counterpress upfield. But you wouldn’t know that from the avalanche of negative comments…
On the right theres also Jacquet who helps a lot more than VVD and when Munoz plays over there he gets back as an extra body, something you don’t see on the left. On the left your help is Wirtz.
I think most young right backs would struggle.
I really think defensively he’s doing much better than some are making out. Often it looks like his instructions are wrong which get corrected at half time. He needs to make those decisions during the match with VVD.
Seems to me VVD doesn’t like changing instructions on the pitch, unless it’s us chasing the game when he goes up top for some reason.
You can add him to the ever-growing list of expensive flops we have purchased where there is no consideration as to how they will fit our system or how they might adapt to the opposition playing in a completely different way to what they are used to.
A fucking shambolic, negligent transfer policy which will take years to rectify on the pitch.
I have no idea however the players we had and have are very different. For our ‘level’ which players in our squad don’t pose some problem?
I’m pretty sure it’s Iraola who’s having to adapt a lot to what he has.
I think Kerkez got off to a bad start with Slot not weaning him in by not using Robbo as an example for him. Almost criminal management imo.
It was honestly bewildering seeing how we signed one of the most aggressively attacking full-backs in the league, and then making him sit back and constantly move towards the centre of the pitch.
Yes, as poor as ‘forcing’ Konaté to tightly man mark. Thankfully that’s becoming a distant memory.
I notice Kerkez instructions aren’t helping him much. He often starts matches either giving his man too much room (as if he’s defending against Mané) or he’s too tight and gets skinned. He needs to own this and have the confidence to decide for himself more quickly.
I have doubts about Kerkez like many others, but in the interests of balance I feel like I should point out he is still pretty young for a defender, he’s still only the same age Robbo was when he joined us - when as we now know Klopp kept him out of the team for almost half a season while he worked on some key elements of his game.
Also, I just learned today is his birthday, so maybe we should all be nicer to him