21 Oct 2025 13:07:27
I want kerkez to succeed but with the results and soo much up for discussion, it's gone under the radar just how bad he's been. He's looked like a shaky shambles and in the United game, he was getting under virgils skin. Virg was babysitting at times in that game. How he isn't fighting for minutes with robbo is insane. It's like he's the club's first choice left back and that's that.
Atm he's miles off, miles off looking like the future left back of this football club and he's played in this league. This isn't a foreign lad coming in and adapting in a new league and country.
If robertsons legs have gone, he should have been moved on then. I think he's slowed down but currently a superior option to kerkez. Problem is you can't play this robertson every game.
21 Oct 2025 13:34:22
The same Robbo who when brought on recently was gassed with his hands on his knees watching while we were conceding? Too much sentiment keeping him at the club this summer for his leadership, not seeing the benefit of that so far.
21 Oct 2025 13:42:24
I’m not buying into the Kerkez hate, we’ve bought the most attacking left back in the league last season and we’re not letting him do any of the things that made him that. He almost never gets forward but that has to be instructions from the coaches.
21 Oct 2025 13:44:17
Maybe I was watching a different game but I thought Kerkez was alright for the United game. Not amazing but definitely not the worst player on the pitch. I sometimes think people are holding his earlier performances against him and can't see that he has improved from earlier this season.
What I dislike though is that he is clearly being asked to play a different way than what he is good at and played when he was at Bournemouth. Before he moves to us, he was a flying FB who would go on the overlap and whip crosses into the box, similar to how Robbo played for us albeit less defensively sound. Now, he is being asked to either sit back and form a back three or underlap and play the ball into a congested centre. I lost count of the number of times he had acres of space to run into but stopped his run to pass the ball sideways. It was clearly a tactical instruction though since he did it throughout the game.
People also say that Gakpo should pass to Kerkez more on the outside but Kerkez is rarely there during games. He's usually on the inside, nearer to the Macca. So Kerkez is clearly not providing the width that people think he is since Gakpo is more often than not the widest player on the left.
Whatever it is, I can't fault Kerkez for not giving effort though. He was up against both Mbuemo and Diallo, two very good wingers, and he was constantly closing them down and not giving them space. He's not defensively good and never has been, but the effort was there. There was once too when United played the ball all the way back to Lammens and he was the furthest forward trying to press.
{Ed025's Note - i think your tag of "not defensively good" is very true Drac, but something i dont want to hear about my fullback mate, for me him and Bradley are a car crash and are the majority of your problems..
21 Oct 2025 13:48:51
And we were happy to let Robbo go this summer and there were offers for him that we were happy to listen to and accept. But for his service, I think Robbo has deserved the right to decide if he wants to leave or see his contract out.
It wasn't like we begged him to stay and I don't think it's right for us to push him out the door too. We demand loyalty from our players so we should also be loyal to ours, especially for someone like Robbo.
21 Oct 2025 14:12:58
Virg wasn't babysitting anyone. He was too busy walking around out of position pointing at things whilst Konate bailed him out repeatedly. I think it was possibly the worst performance I've seen from him in a Liverpool shirt.
Kerkez hasn't been great but to single him out is unfair. There are many others who have been far worse and several of them have been at the club a while so do not have the excuse of being at a new club.
21 Oct 2025 14:25:04
Tbf Ed25, defensively good FBs are dime a dozen nowadays. The more defensively sound ones in the league now are CBs who are playing there, like at Arsenal as City. I can't think of anyone else in the PL tbh.
Which also raises my point though. We already knew that Kerkez isn't good defensively but great going forward. So why are we not utilising his strengths to the benefit of the team but instead exacerbating his weaknesses? That's the purpose of a team too, to make use of each other's strengths and covering for one another's weaknesses. But we're doing the exact opposite to that now and forcing players to do things they are weak at while suppressing the things they can actually do.
{Ed025's Note - call me old fashioned Drac but i like my defenders to be able to defend first and foremost mate, if they can enhance that by going forward when able then thats a bonus for me, but stick to basics..
21 Oct 2025 14:44:23
I agree. I don't see Kerkez as being as bad as people are seeing or saying. He's got the speed we need. He's similar to Robbo in his defensive abilities (people forget how often Robbo used to let crosses get by him, and he does more of it now) . Robbo's crossing in the attacking half was rarely perfect; always a good enough mixture of good and bad.
But Robbo has still been one of our best leftbacks in the PL era, at least. So how does it make Kerkez, so bad? People are willing to be tolerant and patient with Wirtz and Mac Allister, but not Kerkez. Doesn't make sense to me.
21 Oct 2025 15:02:45
Got to agree with Ed 025, we were should be setting up so we have Kerkev bombing up and down that left flank, and a proper right back who can defend, so the balance is better, Bradley will come good but he can't defend well and gets taken off early 2nd half,
I hate to see Szobo at right back, we miss him far too much in midfield,
What is slot thinking, shocking.
21 Oct 2025 15:05:30
Kerkez actually wasn't bad defensively for Bournemouth at all, I'm not sure where that impression has come from. He's not the best defender in the world, but he was more than adequate defending his flank last year, he did a more than decent job on Salah when called upon last year.
21 Oct 2025 15:10:10
Worry about Kerkez is he doesn’t appear to have the football intelligence and calmness needed. Robbo was aggressive and 100mph going up and down the pitch but defensively he was no where near as rash as Kerkez. Having said that Kerkez is another who has to play to improve.
21 Oct 2025 15:19:06
Robbo being gassed with his hands on his knees probably down to the fact he’s not match fit and ran himself ragged. It’s ok to make excuses for macca and isak but not Robbo?
21 Oct 2025 15:21:02
I was against us signing Kerkez because I didn't think he was good enough for us but I'm certain he will prove me wrong. He's only 21 and in a new team - give him a break. No individual right now should be singled out when the entire team is off.
21 Oct 2025 15:32:29
I don’t think Kerkez has done much wrong lately after a shakeup introduction into the LFC team. I mean did he do anything wrong against UTD? Maybe I just didn’t see it ?♂️.
21 Oct 2025 16:38:47
I think Kerkez is doing ok but would do a lot better if he was allowed to play the way he did at B"mth and why we signed him. Maybe to simple.
21 Oct 2025 17:04:15
Robertson ran himself ragged against Chelsea?
He came on as sub in the second half!
21 Oct 2025 17:25:01
From what we've watched as I stated for Liverpool kerkez has been dross. As for bradley Ed025 can't understand why yet again another pulls this lad down. The team overall is playing poorly. What do you want bradley to do? He hasn't cost us points this season, he has salah infront of him who's been awful. So how is bradley the car crash exactly?
{Ed025's Note - constantly out of position and some very rash challenges Batman, just my opinion of course but i think he is a very poor player mate..
21 Oct 2025 18:50:55
Bradley is a superstar, for Northern Ireland Ed25, loves that wingback role he plays ? ?
In all honesty I feel he is trying to play it safe at right back, playing the simple pass.
{Ed025's Note - i love Northern Ireland mate and especially Belfast and Derry so i will go easy on him because of the great people i have met there, hes still young and has time to improve but at the moment he looks a bit lost to me..
21 Oct 2025 20:50:37
25, I don't think Bradley and Kerkez are bad players. I think they are being asked to do things that they aren't comfortable with. They are not playing to their strengths. Not many of them are.
{Ed025's Note - you could be right RF, its just to me that they look very nervous and opposition wide players can see that and are taking full advantage mate..
21 Oct 2025 21:40:59
Honestly doesn’t matter who you’d play at full back the way we’re set up at the moment, even Lahm or Maldini would struggle given the complete lack of protection our defence has. Think the Kerkez hate is misplaced given how poor we are in the middle of the park.
21 Oct 2025 22:31:13
I think Kerkez is feeling under pressure having to replace a legend in Robbo.
It is making him make mistakes that he would not usually do and the harder he tries the more he is messing up while Robbo is on the bench.
He just needs to relax and think that he is here to play his game not Robbo's and also because the leaders are struggling for form it is taking time for him to settle but i believe he will make the left back his own . YNWA.