"Just can't warm to..." - Ex-Liverpool icon has gone in hard on player who is a "bag of nerves"

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Former Liverpool icon Michael Owen has admitted he “just can’t warm to” Milos Kerkez, describing him as a “bag of nerves” for the Reds this season. So many players have struggled for the Reds this season, but speaking to Premier League Productions [via Football365], Owen didn’t hold back on left-back Kerkez and others: “Full-backs you’ve gone from Trent [Alexander-Arnold] and [Andy] Robertson, possibly the best combination of full-back the Premier League has seen for a long, long time, you had [Mohamed] Salah ahead of him who has just been a freak over the last few years, incredible, and of course [Luis] Diaz who played the majority of the time and was exceptional as well, loads of energy.

He looks like a bag of nerves, he looks like he doesn’t want the ball, he looks like he’s an emotional defender, he’s playing like this [shaking] all the time, it’s like, ‘calm down, man’, you’re in possession of the ball a lot of the time, just relax, it’s like he’s in a trance constantly. Salah is a tenth of the player he was last season.

Kerkez certainly hasn’t set the world alight in his first season at Liverpool, but in fairness to him, he has been much improved over the past month or so. Kerkez is still only 22 and is getting used to life at one of the biggest clubs in the world – Robertson was 23 when he joined from Hull City in 2017 – and he can be the starting left-back for years to come, as long as he finds new gears.