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Kerkez is Liverpool's fourth summer signing.

You have to ride the rhythm,” the Manchester City boss opined last season.

Perhaps Kerkez represents this shift more than any of Liverpool's other summer arrivals.



Kerkez completed 106 progressive carries this season in the Premier League, compared to Robertson’s 64.

Frimpong registered 100 progressive carries this season compared to Alexander-Arnold’s 51

This season, no one in the Bundesliga made more progressive carries than Liverpool's new record signing, and he registered almost double the number of goals and assists than Dominik Szoboszlai, whose place in the team is expected to be tweaked following the 22-year-old’s arrival.

Again, Wirtz’s dribbling stats make for interesting reading

Now, it has added the direct incision that was lacking at times in Slot’s first campaign.

The success of Frimpong, Kerkez, and Wirtz will ultimately test Liverpool's summer strategy, but that the league's best side has added greater attacking variation and resources, should be seen as an early win for Hughes and Slot's era fully begins to take shape.


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