Former Liverpool midfielder Didi Hamann reckons new signing Milos Kerkez must improve his defending to stay in the team at Anfield.<\/p>\n
The Reds have a perfect record so far this season with three wins from their opening three matches against Bournemouth, Newcastle United and Arsenal.<\/p>\n
Arne Slot\u2019s 2024\/25 Premier League champions are back to the top of the table despite getting a bit lucky along the way to their three victories.<\/p>\n
Liverpool<\/a> boss Slot is trying to bed in six new signings, excluding two new back-up goalkeepers, with Hugo Ekitike, Florian Wirtz, Kerkez, Jeremie Frimpong, Giovanni Leoni and Alexander Isak all joining over the summer<\/a>.<\/p>\n Kerkez, who signed from Bournemouth fairly early in the transfer window, has been picked out by ex-Liverpool midfielder Hamann for underperforming in their win over Arsenal on Sunday.<\/p>\n Hamann told\u00a0Adventure Gamers: \u201cAndy Robertson was unlucky on a couple of occasions last season and the club brought in someone else, which is fair enough.<\/p>\n READ:\u00a0Liverpool transfer mistake left Crystal Palace with only possible decision amid Glasner resignation threat<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cKerkez started a bit edgily against Arsenal, but in the second half, he started playing better and seemed to settle down.<\/p>\n \u201cHe made a couple of good tackles against Noni Madueke. We\u2019ll have to wait and see, but Robertson is always an option.<\/p>\n \u201cMilos Kerkez isn\u2019t the quickest. It\u2019ll be interesting to see how he performs in the next few weeks because every time the ball was played over the top, they looked dangerous.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was the same against Bournemouth and Crystal Palace. He needs to improve his defending. He\u2019s only 21, so we\u2019ll have to wait and see.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s certainly good going forward, but his primary job is to defend, and in the first half against Arsenal, I didn\u2019t like what I saw in a couple of situations.\u201d<\/p>\n MORE LIVERPOOL COVERAGE ON F365\u2026 Another former Liverpool player, Jamie Carragher, also singled out Kerkez for criticism with the Sky Sports pundit hoping the left-back tones down his aggression this summer as he is too keen to \u201cwin every tackle, even every header\u201d.<\/p>\n Carragher said on The Overlap: \u201cMilos Kerkez is too aggressive. He feels like he needs to win every tackle, even every header.<\/p>\n \u201cSometimes you\u2019ve just got to put the brakes on but I\u2019m hoping that will come with age \u2013 he\u2019s only 21. I\u2019m seeing him go for headers on the halfway line where if you go into the back of someone, you\u2019re going to give a foul away.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Liverpool midfielder Didi Hamann reckons new signing Milos Kerkez must improve his defending to stay in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[53984,218,348,708,2236,50,221,101,56,1955,54,55],"class_list":["post-112043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-didi-hamann","tag-football","tag-home-page","tag-liverpool","tag-milos-kerkez","tag-news","tag-premier-league","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-uncategorized","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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