Walking alone wasn’t a worry for at Liverpool, not when he spent his six months at Anfield sitting among thousands of Scousers. The defender thought he’d hit the jackpot when handed him a dream move to Merseyside in January 2021.
A debut for the then reigning Premier League winners never materialised, with eight unused substitute appearances the closest he ever got to pulling on a red jersey. By that summer, he’d been sent back to the Championship on loan at Sheffield United before eventually breaking his ties with Kop as he joined Gers at the start of the current campaign. But far from viewing his brief Liverpool stint a waste of time, Davies made sure to soak up all he could from his position on the Anfield fringes.
“It opened my eyes to the top level and what the best players do, day in, day out.
“But it’s never easy and even the best teams find it difficult against a low block.