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Liverpool midfielder Dominik Szoboszlai has inadvertently revealed the team’s next goal while praising club legend Steven Gerrard.
Szoboszlai is a proud custodian of the no.8 shirt and the eighth player to permanently wear the jersey for Liverpool in the Premier League.
But, following Sunday’s win over Tottenham Hotspur, Szoboszlai now is the owner of one thing Gerrard doesn’t have: A Premier League winner’s medal.
The 44-year-old claimed every major honor at Liverpool bar the one he craved most, and Gerrard is widely considered the greatest Premier League player never to win the title.
It was something Szobszlai was asked about following Sunday’s title victory.
“He is a club legend,” the former RB Leipzig replied when speaking to Spiler TV, as relayed by Hungary Today.
“I think he did so much for the club that he should be remembered as a legend, even if he did not win the Premier League, but he has won something I have not won.
Now that is the next goal.”
In answering the question, Szoboszlai touched on perhaps the next step for this Arne Slot side if it is to establish itself as a truly great Liverpool team: win the Champions League.
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Gerrard guided Rafael Benitez’s iteration to Europe’s biggest prize in 2005, but the lack of a Premier League title means that team is not considered one of Liverpool’s best.
However, the sides that had copious league and European triumphs in the 1970s and ‘80s certainly are, along with the squad assembled by Jurgen Klopp, which won the Champions League in 2019 and the Premier League the following year certainly is
That’s now the aim for Szoboszlai and Co.
The Hungarian has enjoyed an excellent second season on Merseyside and has missed just two games so far in the title-winning Premier League campaign
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