Graeme Souness has admitted he has doubts about whether or not Wataru Endo will be capable of deal with the depth of the Premier League following his summer time transfer from Stuttgart.
The Japan worldwide was an enormous favorite on the Bundesliga outfit and achieved certainly one of his desires by finishing a £16m transfer (BBC Sport) to Anfield final month.
The Liverpool legend, nevertheless, has been impressed with how Dominik Szoboszlai and Alexis Mac Allister have hit the bottom operating however has urged Jurgen Klopp to discover a alternative for Joel Matip who ‘can’t maintain himself match’ in addition to including one other addition within the engine room.
“I like Szoboszlai and I’m a giant fan of Mac Allister,” Souness instructed The Mirror (through Liverpool Echo). “With Endo, we’ll wait and see. Getting good opinions enjoying within the Bundesliga doesn’t imply you can be a hit within the Premier League, which may be very demanding and the depth is bigger there than anyplace else. Let’s see how he offers with that.
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“The actual fact they provided over £100m for Caicedo tells you he [Klopp] sees that space because it wants strengthening. The best way I see Liverpool proper now’s they’ve sufficient objectives within the workforce, the defence is greater than adequate, the keeper is greater than adequate however the mix he’s going to have to make use of in midfield shouldn’t be fairly proper. I wish to see them get one other central defender as Matip can’t maintain himself match and one other central midfielder. Endo, with the cash they paid, would counsel he’s a squad participant.”
Szoboszlai has been most likely our greatest participant up to now this season after transferring from the Bundesliga so he hasn’t struggled an excessive amount of with the rise of depth.
Endo hasn’t featured as a lot as our new No. 8 however let’s hope the identical could be stated for him within the coming weeks.
He began his first recreation for the membership at St. James’ Park and lasted just below an hour with him wanting barely out of his depth in what was a chaotic and boisterous conflict towards Eddie Howe’s facet.
It’s solely early days in his Liverpool profession however we consider we’ll quickly see him at his dynamic finest within the function that Fabinho that occupied extraordinarily properly for therefore lengthy earlier than his departure to Saudi this summer time.
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