Quote from: Pokapoka124 on Today at 06:46:21 PM

Quote from: ILuckyGuyI on June 11, 2023, 07:11:39 PM

Naby Keita is on his way to Werder Bremen on a free transfer. I'm afraid Keita couldn't show the expected performance for Liverpool most of the time. He has never been a regular in the starting eleven also. I don't remember him playing like in nearly all games in a season. I think this is the right choice for Liverpool and it seems like they are doing some cleaning in the midfield also.

I mean together with Keita there are 3 more midfielders who are about to leave the team this summer. Oxlade and Milner are going to be released and Arthur's loan time is also ending at the end of the month. They are making the moves to strengthen the midfield on one hand. Alexis Mac Allister is joining the team by July 1. This is really important for Liverpool because I think that the midfield has been the weakest point of the lineup so far.

All three players have lost their place in Jurgen Klopp's starting eleven. It's been a really tough and rough season for Liverpool, I barely exercise them to qualify for any European competition next season but somehow they managed to get back their momentum and pull back vital points to move up to top 6. With these players leaving, Klopp will have to replace them with young and better players who will improve the squad for the coming season. Mac Allister already joined in the week, I believe we will be seeing more additions to the Liverpool side.

Keita's performance in Liverpool looks quite bad, but it sometimes goes unnoticed that he was injured a lot and also quite severely. He missed out on about 86 games during his time in Liverpool. Even lately he was missing almost 38 games in a row with a small period of time where it seemed as if he was about to have fully recovered, but then injured again. 86 games is almost equal to 3 seasons. That's rough and that is also the main reason why Werder Bremen was able to sign him. They are willing to pay for the risk so to say. His salary isn't very high and if he gets injured again it doesn't mean a financial armageddon for Werder Bremen.