Richard Hughes has already overseen one switch involving Milos Kerkez, and after a latest remark from the Bournemouth defender, Liverpool’s sporting director would possibly simply fancy his probabilities of repeating the trick.
Final month, the Sunday Mirror reported that the Reds had begun to indicate a eager curiosity within the Cherries left-back, whose transfer to the Vitality Stadium practically 18 months in the past got here when the present LFC recruitment chief was working on the south coast membership.
The Hungarian has been one of many standout gamers of Andoni Iraloa’s facet in what has been such a powerful season for them that, in the event that they had been to win by three targets or extra towards West Ham tonight, they’d leapfrog Manchester Metropolis within the Premier League desk and go fifth.
Kerkez aspiring to succeed in ‘prime stage of soccer’
Kerkez gave an interview to The Guardian wherein he mirrored on life on and off the pitch, and as a closing query he was requested to quote his final ambition as a footballer.
Not missing for self-belief, the 21-year-old replied: “I imagine I could make it on the prime stage of soccer.”
Might Hughes attempt to signal Kerkez for a second time?
Whereas we don’t doubt that the Hungarian is content material with life at Bournemouth proper now, it appears obvious from his feedback that, with the best of respect to the Cherries, in time he sees himself making a step up the ladder to a membership of Liverpool’s stature.
Hughes’ ears might properly have perked up upon listening to Kerkez’s declaration as to his profession ambitions, and it’ll be fascinating to see if the Reds’ sporting director tries to signal the defender for a second time.
Current hyperlinks to a different left-back in Alphonso Davies counsel that the Anfield hierarchy could be beginning to look in direction of life after Andy Robertson, not essentially by way of offloading the Scot quickly however quite figuring out youthful options who might take his place when he in the end departs.
Our quantity 26 has spent a number of years marauding up and down the flank, combining his core defensive duties with a willpower to make an attacking influence, and Kerkez is minimize from the identical material, so he may very well be a potential successor in the same mould to the 30-year-old.
The world seems to be his oyster – will his profession path take him to Liverpool within the foreseeable future?
