Should Liverpool fans be excited?
Very excited. Very excited.
And there is something, a big thing about, about Barcola is that it depends how you're
gonna play. Are you gonna be able to put
him in one V one situation?
Obviously, he's gonna work for you. You can see he's not shy of putting pressure,
going up and down. He's not a cheat.
He will do that for you. But more often than not, when he was playing
for Paris Saint-Germain, the team was here, putting pressure, five metres, sprinting,
getting the ball back, going out on the w- on, on the wing and, and, and, and attacking a one
V one, a one V two, sometime a one V three.
What you have also if you want to play on the counter, he's fast as hell. Yeah.
But are you going to make him defor- defend way more than he's gonna attack?
Therefore, it might not be something that's very suitable for him.
So you, you need to see how you're gonna utilise him.
Other than that, the, the last thing that I will say, he needs to finish a tiny bit better.
And if he does that, a lot of team will be in trouble with him.
Which is what this says, a little bit, Thierry.
He certainly gets the chances in the 98th percentile on the XG and, and he has the shots
as well. So he is an elite, winger in terms of getting
in front of goal. Has the most touches as well, or among the
most touches. High on dribbling, high on chance creation,
but also really high on defensive actions.
So where does he fit into this Liverpool team, Jamie?
Well, he, he's gonna go straight in onto this left wing position.
Now, I, I've been critical s- slightly of Liverpool, sort of how they've gone about the
business, but there's no doubt he's a huge upgrade on what they've got in terms of left
wing positions, no doubt.
And I just think on the right side for me, it looks like Gakpo's staying.
He's on there. Listen, he did great at the weekend, great
cross for the goal, but it's not natural for him.
So I think they'll almost have to fudge the right side a little bit with Munoz, Gakpo,
Rio and Ganmo as well.
They're not natural players for that side.
But when you actually look at it now and you look at sort of Barcola, Wirtz, and Isak as a
three really, three players over 100 million pounds, and we're still probably not talking
about this Liverpool team as being a team who we think can win the league.
It's fa- it's amazing.
It's fascinating, isn't it, Reid, when you think about that because it, the nature of how
the squad's being put together now through, hook or by crook, it just, there's still more
work to do really. But I, I said a few, last week on this show,
it feels like there's probably The, the Premier League's lacking a little bit of star
dust with certain players.
He should provide that, not just for Liverpool, but the Premier League as well.