I hate how he plays football. He relies too much on his physical attributes; he rarely reads the game or makes a smart play. Quite the contrary, he will often give away possession by trying something ill-advised, or even worse, fail in something simple and easy like a 5-yard pass.
And then, there is his lacking technique. He can’t cross, shoot, or pass. We went from Robertson, one of the best attacking FBs of the PL era, to someone who is below average.
The one thing that he has going for him is that he’s young and can improve. At this point though, I doubt that he’ll ever be good enough for anything more than being a backup in a successful Liverpool team.
There’s a lot to like about Kerkez but if we’re being honest he’s been mostly disappointing this season and the regression is somewhat incomprehensible considering the change in management over the summer.
Tsimi is almost certianly off so it’ll be interesting whether we promote Chambers or we move for a player like Balde or Truffert.
Newcastle would want north of £60m for him, it’s not something we should look to entertain. Bournemouth and Leeds both signed very good LB’s 12-18 months ago for very little, my advice to Wardy would be to shop around.
We mixed how we used him under Slot as time went on. For example, in the Palace away game last season, when Wirtz was playing inside left, Kerkez was “released” to go forward more down his side. But even when he is released, I don’t see much of a difference. I’m not sure whether I even want him to go forward that much, and that’s not a compliment. I hope we squeeze out the most possible from him while he’s here, but he’ll never be my cup of tea and I saw that very quickly.
Why on Earth is he playing so often in central areas?! It happens with Araujo as well but I got the impression that it happens with him more often. I thought we were past experimenting with inverted fullbacks…
Also, how’s that a penalty? Thankfully, it couldn’t hurt us in the end but I’d have been bloody livid had that been an equaliser or a winner.
