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When a young player joins Liverpool, they know the competition is fierce.

Every training session is a battle to prove you belong.

For a left-back, the challenge is even greater.

Andrew Robertson has been one of the best in the position for years, and any new signing has to push past that standard.

This summer, Liverpool paid £40 million to sign Milos Kerkez from Bournemouth.

He arrived as a 21-year-old who had already played every single Premier League game last season.

The club’s recruitment team knew his numbers.

His sprints, assists, and crosses put him among the top full-backs in the league.

But Liverpool is not just about statistics; it’s about handling the pressure, the intensity, and the expectation to win trophies every year.

Kerkez knew there would be a step up.

He had already spoken to Dominik Szoboszlai, his Hungary teammate, about what to expect.

But the reality still surprised him.

“Just the intensity,” he said as per The Times.

“Of course, the quality is higher and there are not many mistakes.”

“When you hear the noise of the pass — ‘boom, boom, boom’ — it’s different.”

“He [Szoboszlai] told me everything, how it is.”

“When I came, I saw that it’s like that.”

“It’s really high level in terms of everything — in nutrition, from people helping you to improve even more physically.”

“You can only get a lot better as a player when you come here.”

“It’s just the highest level of football and I’m really proud and happy that I’m here.”

Was he nervous!

I was really happy and I couldn’t wait to get started.”

On pressure, he was clear, “It’s not pressure.”

“You play football and you can have a bad game, but you still get paid.”

“Pressure is when you don’t have a meal the next morning, [like] some families.”

“That’s what’s called pressure.”

He also praised new teammate Florian Wirtz.

“He’s a special player really… Just the vision of the passes is special.”

For Kerkez, the work is just beginning.

“Now it’s only time to work more and do great stuff with this club.”

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