Arne Slot barely climbs on the quarrels of Jurgen Klopp, but it is just to say that the Dutch tactician used the Liverpool team assembly of his predecessor.
This is why the next transfer window is so important. Liverpool must settle his persistent contractual concerns while targeting the right players to consolidate the team this summer.
Liverpool is firm favorites to win the Premier League, the midfielder driving the efforts. Slot hesitated to cut and change, but its formula, on this front, worked a treat.
The transformational reconstruction of Liverpool
In May 2023 and Liverpool watched the cannon of a pistol. For the first time in a full season under the direction of Klopp, Anfield failed to qualify for the Champions League.
Triumph in the stiffness of curtain of the 2022/23 season – a victory on Manchester City in the community shield – issued illusions of magnitude.
But this false dawn was a hesitation product and a lack of transfer investment. Liverpool midfielder was tired after their date of sale. Jordan Henderson and Fabinho and Co were actually a “horrible” brand by Pundit Jamie Carragher After an embarrassing defeat against the newly promoted Nottingham forest.
By approaching the end of their contracts, James Milner, Naby Keita and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain had all to leave at the end, inaugurating a new group of talents to reshape the central fold.
But the approaches of the Saudi Pro League for Fabinho and the captain of Liverpool were unforeseen, which caused a more dramatic reconstruction which saw Alexis Mac Allister, Dominik Szoboszlai, Ryan Gravenberch and Wataru Endo.
The four field circles have played significant roles since membership, each at level in the slot system. However, Endo was only brought as an option to stop Stuttgart for 16 million pounds sterling.
Have played 69 times For the Merseyside Club, Endo paid for his due, then some, although his presence continues in the team covers the risk of seeing him become the next milner of the club, a modern legend but perhaps the one that has remained in the mixture for a little too long.
The new James Milner of Liverpool
The argument for the sale of endo this summer is solid. Indeed, the Japanese international did not start a single match in the Premier League this season and was not younger at 32.
However, he has reached cult status in Liverpool circles for his difficult and important cameo in recent months, presented late on the side of the location.
According to FbrefIt ranks among the highest 14% of field environments through the best European leagues in the past year for the completion of passes, the highest 15% for plated and the highest 16% for authorizations by 90, which underlines this point.
Wataru Endo – Liverpool Statistics by competition (24/25) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Competition | Applications (start) | Goals | Aid | Minutes |
Premier league | 14 (0) | – | – | 137 ‘ |
Champions League | 6 (1) | – | – | 140 ‘ |
Carabao cup | 4 (3) | – | – | 296 ‘ |
FA Cup | 2 (2) | – | – | 169 ‘ |
Statistics via Transfer | ||||
It could be a well appreciated part of the team and a precious defensive option in addition, but Endo played the equivalent of a match and a half football in the Premier League and we reached the penultimate month of the campaign.
Moreover, Heaven Germany has reported The fact that Eintracht Francfurt has already made requests for information on the midfielder of £ 50,000 per week before the summer window, and that Liverpool confirmed that his departure was a possibility.
There is a possibility that Endo is indeed transformed into a following milner, having been compared to “One of the largest Liverpool legends of my time“By Klopp for its ability to enter the late scrum and close the matches.
Milner, who joined Liverpool on a free transfer of Manchester City at the age of 29 and continued to play 332 times For Merseysiders – more than for any other club – is one of the most prosaic members of the modern Anfield dynasty, but an important.
The former English international was 37 years old when he left in 2023, finding a new house on the south coast with Brighton & Hove Albion, but he gave in that the time had come to move on.
In fact, Liverpool could have been faster in reducing links with the veteran, which was part of the cohort of defective midfielder in 2022/23, if underlined and tired after many years of tireless race in the Klopp system.
Now Endo, rented for his “special“The qualities of the location are much younger than Milner when he left Liverpool, but there are few questions on the prodigious fitness levels of English, so incredible in his ability to keep the pace of his young people.
However, the signs of his regression were clear on this final campaign. According to SofascoreHe completed 81% of his passes, won 48% of his duels and succeeded 0.4 key passes and 0.8 plated per game.
Compare that with the 2018/19 season: Milner succeeded with 75% of its dribbles, won 56% of its duels, made 1.4 key passes and each plated on average each match and accumulated nine goal involvement.
Milner always kicks in the Premier League, but it is fair to say that Liverpool could have benefited more quickly in writing their midfield reconstruction before Klopp’s departure – although with the title on the horizon, everything went pretty well.
Liverpool’s sports director of FSG, Richard Hughes, will have to think for a long time about the application of some changes in the midfield this summer. It is not the priority domain this summer, but with past errors highlighting the error of not being a little more ambitious on the transfer market, it is something worth it to be considered.
If endo to leave, a new young and fresh option could be welcomed to provide competition in Gravenberch, which has watched the long long weeks in recent weeks. Time, of course, will say it.
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