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Should Liverpool fans be excited?

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Very excited.
Very excited.

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And there is something, a big thing about,
about Barcola is that it depends how you're

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gonna play.
Are you gonna be able to put

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him in one V one situation?

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Obviously, he's gonna work for you.
You can see he's not shy of putting pressure,

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going up and down.
He's not a cheat.

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He will do that for you.
But more often than not, when he was playing

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for Paris Saint-Germain, the team was here,
putting pressure, five metres, sprinting,

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getting the ball back, going out on the w- on,
on the wing and, and, and, and attacking a one

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V one, a one V two, sometime a one V three.

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What you have also if you want to play
on the counter, he's fast as hell. Yeah.

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But are you going to make him defor-
defend way more than he's gonna attack?

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Therefore, it might not be something
that's very suitable for him.

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So you, you need to see how
you're gonna utilise him.

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Other than that, the, the last thing that I
will say, he needs to finish a tiny bit better.

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And if he does that, a lot of
team will be in trouble with him.

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Which is what this says, a little bit, Thierry.

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He certainly gets the chances in the 98th
percentile on the XG and, and he has the shots

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as well.
So he is an elite, winger in terms of getting

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in front of goal.
Has the most touches as well, or among the

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most touches.
High on dribbling, high on chance creation,

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but also really high on defensive actions.

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So where does he fit into
this Liverpool team, Jamie?

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Well, he, he's gonna go straight
in onto this left wing position.

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Now, I, I've been critical s- slightly of
Liverpool, sort of how they've gone about the

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business, but there's no doubt he's a huge
upgrade on what they've got in terms of left

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wing positions, no doubt.

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And I just think on the right side
for me, it looks like Gakpo's staying.

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He's on there.
Listen, he did great at the weekend, great

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cross for the goal, but
it's not natural for him.

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So I think they'll almost have to fudge the
right side a little bit with Munoz, Gakpo,

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Rio and Ganmo as well.

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They're not natural players for that side.

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But when you actually look at it now and you
look at sort of Barcola, Wirtz, and Isak as a

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three really, three players over 100 million
pounds, and we're still probably not talking

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about this Liverpool team as being a
team who we think can win the league.

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It's fa- it's amazing.

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It's fascinating, isn't it, Reid, when you
think about that because it, the nature of how

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the squad's being put together now through,
hook or by crook, it just, there's still more

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work to do really.
But I, I said a few, last week on this show,

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it feels like there's probably The, the
Premier League's lacking a little bit of star

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dust with certain players.

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He should provide that, not just for Liverpool,
but the Premier League as well.