Dominik Szoboszlai's true feelings about playing right-back as 3 players unhappy

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Liverpool FC NewsFeaturesDominik SzoboszlaiDominik Szoboszlai had one of three grievances from inside a Liverpool dressing room that fell apart in dramatic fashion as the club slumped from champions to fifth place in a single seasonDominik Szoboszlai was reportedly frustrated with his role(Image: Getty)The inside story of Liverpool's disastrous 2025/26 season has revealed a dressing room full of simmering grievances.Dominik Szoboszlai was reportedly unhappy at being deployed at right-back, Curtis Jones was frustrated at not receiving the sustained midfield run he wanted, and Alexis Mac Allister felt he was made an unfair scapegoat for the team's collective failures.The disclosures, reported by The Athletic, paint a picture of a Liverpool squad that was holding individual frustrations under a surface of growing dysfunction throughout the campaign. Meanwhile, Mohamed Salah linked up with teammates following a damning outburst seemingly aimed towards Arne Slot.The club finished fifth in the Premier League with just 60 points, their lowest tally in a decade and 24 fewer than when they won the title the season prior, and conceded a Premier League era record 53 league goals.Szoboszlai's displeasure at being moved to right-back is perhaps the most revealing of the three.The Hungarian, who went on to be named Liverpool's player of the season after recording 13 goals and 12 assists in all competitions, is regarded as one of the club's most important attacking midfielders.The Hungarian went on to be named Liverpool's player of the season(Image: Getty)When the injury crisis at right-back became critical, with Conor Bradley missing most of the season with a serious knee injury sustained in January, head coach Arne Slot turned to Szoboszlai as one of the stopgap solutions, alongside fellow midfielder Jones.From a tactical standpoint, it was a pragmatic move.

Szoboszlai was seen as someone who could offer more defensively on that side than the alternatives, and Slot was reluctant to remove him from central areas precisely because doing so weakened the midfield's intensity.The problem was that the player himself was unhappy with it, and with 4,743 minutes played across all competitions, second only to Virgil van Dijk in the squad, those out-of-position appearances added unwanted demands to an already heavy workload.Alexis Mac Allister struggled this season(Image: Getty)Jones' situation was different in nature but similarly festering. The midfielder wanted a genuine extended run in the middle of the park to prove what he could offer in his natural role, and that opportunity never came consistently.Instead, like Szoboszlai, he found himself being used in areas of the pitch that complicated his case for a starting berth in the position he actually wanted.Mac Allister's grievance was more publicly visible.

The Argentine, who had been a model of consistency during Liverpool's title-winning campaign the previous season, became the most visibly targeted player as performances declined.His own assessment was that he had been unfairly singled out for criticism in a collective collapse.Choose Liverpool.com as a 'Preferred Source' on Google News for quick access to the news you value.Liverpool FCDominik Szoboszlai