Jamie Carragher echoes John Arne Riise critique of Liverpool player who goes ‘100 miles an hour’

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September 3rd 2026, 15:33 Images via The Overlap and Richard Heathcote/Getty Images Jamie Carragher has likened one current Liverpool player to Darwin Nunez in the way that he does ‘everything’ on the pitch at ‘100 miles an hour’.In the same summer that the Uruguay striker left Anfield, Milos Kerkez arrived from Bournemouth, with their mutual time on Merseyside only overlapping for a few weeks in pre-season.The Hungary left-back didn’t have the smoothest first year with the Reds, with Gary Neville giving the unflattering assessment that our number 6 ‘plays like a 10-year-old‘ with some of his decision making.Carragher: Kerkez ‘does everything at 100 miles an hour’The topic of Liverpool’s full-backs came up on the latest episode of Stick to Football, and Carragher didn’t hold back in his opinion about Kerkez. (Photo by Molly Darlington/Getty Images)The pundit said of the 22-year-old: “You’re watching the game and you’re thinking, ‘Why has he done that?’ “I described Kerkez last season – and it was his first season, maybe it felt a bit harsh at the time – he’s the Darwin Nunez of full-backs.

He’s had his first season; it wasn’t amazing, but right, you go: ‘OK, Iraola’s come in from Bournemouth. He knows him, he’s still our left-back.

He’s our left-back, let him have another year.'” (Photo by Franco Arland/Getty Images) Want more Empire of the Kop coverage? In fairness to Kerkez, he’s still only 22, so that greater maturity may well come with time.