{"id":604714,"date":"2026-09-03T17:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T17:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/604714\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T17:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T17:20:11","slug":"the-darwin-nunez-of-full-backs-jamie-carragher-tears-into-liverpool-star-after-chaotic-start-to-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/604714\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Darwin Nunez of full-backs&#8217; &#8211; Jamie Carragher tears into Liverpool star after chaotic start to the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carragher did not hold back when assessing Kerkez&#8217;s tactical awareness, claiming the \u00a340 million signing lacks composure. The former Liverpool defender believes the youngster relies too heavily on raw pace rather than intelligent positioning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Their understanding of the game is really, really poor. You\u2019re watching the game and thinking, &#8216;Why has he done that?&#8217;,&#8221; Carragher explained on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TheOverlap\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\">The Overlap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I described Kerkez last season \u2013 and it was his first season, maybe it was a bit harsh at the time \u2013 he&#8217;s the Darwin Nunez of full-backs. It&#8217;s just like &#8216;head down and run&#8217;, everything Kerkez does is 100 miles an hour.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ve brought in Kerkez for \u00a340million. He\u2019s had his first season, it wasn&#8217;t amazing, but right, you go: &#8216;OK, Iraola\u2019s come in from Bournemouth, he knows him, he&#8217;s still our left-back. Andy Robertson moved on, we had another left-back on loan, so we&#8217;re probably not going to spend another \u00a340million on another. He&#8217;s our left-back, let him have another year&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carragher did not hold back when assessing Kerkez&#8217;s tactical awareness, claiming the \u00a340 million signing lacks composure. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,172,273280,2619,105],"class_list":["post-604714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-liverpool","tag-m-kerkez","tag-premier-league","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}