Liverpool have enjoyed a great start to the season and few can argue that many in our team are under-performing but Jamie Carragher has been sharing his concerns over Dominik Szoboszlai.
Speaking on the Overlap, the ex-Red offered his former team some transfer advice: “I was watching [Lucas] Paqueta thinking ‘oh my’, when he brought the ball down every time on his chest or his shoulder.
“He was like a bit of a throwback. I was actually thinking, ‘would Liverpool sign him?’
“I know City tried to sign him, but I look at a sort of lack of athleticism in some ways and think would that stop a top team signing him.
“I’m not Szoboszlai’s biggest fan, but he has great athleticism. He gets talked about as our No.10 and people say ‘oh he’s great off the ball.’
“But he’s our No.10, he’s scored three goals as our No.10, but I was thinking that Slot would actually prefer Szoboszlai to Paqueta,”
It seems that the Scouser is a big fan of the West Ham midfielder and would personally consider replacing the Hungarian with him.
Lucas Paqueta is a talented player but is he better than Szoboszlai?
When comparing statistics of the two players (via the Premier League), Lucas Paqueta leads our No.8 on goals per game, assists per game, interceptions per game, duels won per game and ball recoveries per game – which is rather damning.
With Anfield already having a history of applauding the Brazilian, there seems to be some respect from our fans for the player.
However, Arne Slot has already stated that our man is ‘underestimated’ and puts a huge amount of credit for that on his tireless effort for the team.
The 24-year-old is more than goals and assists, with his job being the constant pressing and running that is required to play in his position.
Two very talented players but few will be in a rush to swap the two, given our title pursuit in this campaign.
You can watch Carragher’s comments on Szoboszlai and Paqueta (from 33:12) via The Overlap on YouTube:
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So should we replace Slot with Cara?,I don’t think so,he is a useless overpaid mouthpiece!
I can’t even accept Gaudiola for Slot. Slot is the greatest.
Carragher talks too much. Cara’s ideas something is out of the way. He needs a human heart in his critics. Football is a business and also a career
He’s not in same class as szobo, glad carra ain’t discharge of transfers👎
Please not Paqueta is carra blind.
Fortunately Slot is not the type of head coach easily influenced and I’m sure he does not allow outside noise bother him. I’m not saying Sobo is great he has his ups n downs but laterly he is fucked but that does not mean Paqueta is better then him.
I’ve got a lot respect for Jamie,but i personally don’t always agree with him,if he’s so great how come he’s not in management
I love carra but some times I wish he’d just stayed stumped and tight lipped to be honest. Sobo is an absolute machine and a quality footballer and that’s why he gets the nod and that’s why we love him
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He links perfectly a long with mo salah along with cody, he the entire game lively
Carragher was a decent player at Liverpool, but not a van Dyk mould . His analysis of players is pretty decent but he does look at holistic view. Szobo is has the DNA that Klopp and now Slot has asked of the players. That is crucial in building a formidable team that understand the requirements of being a Liverpool first team player. Paquette won’t be effective without the ball . Here it’s crucial with and without the ball because of intensity and work rate
I’d take Paqueta any day instead of Szoboszlai! Agree with Carra and I’m hungarian. Jones, Szobo, are not Liverpool level players, they should go and some decent midfileders should be signed instead!
Mmmmmmmmmmm!!!!! Are you part of Carra’s PR team? Thank goodness Carra is not in management or coaching. He would most probably be as good as Rooney 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
One of the best aspects of Liverpools play is their intensity and desire to win the ball back. Sobo. Is a big part of that.