Jurgen Klopp explains Naby Keita's role in Liverpool's XI - 7M sport

Jurgen Klopp explains Naby Keita's role in Liverpool's XI



Posted Tuesday, July 24, 2018 by squawka.com

Jurgen Klopp explains Naby Keita's role in Liverpool's XI

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has revealed how he plans to use new signing Naby Keita in his line up.

The Guinean international joined Liverpool for £54m this summer after an impressive spell in the German Bundesliga with RB Leipzig.

"He is a creative midfield player with discipline; tactical discipline is a big strength of his usually. He's doing the right things in the right moment, that's how good players are," said Klopp to the official Liverpool website.

"I don't want to give him 500,000 [pieces of] information. We got him because he is the player he is and now we want to work with that. That means first of all we let him go and adapt to our system."

Asked about how he sees Keita fitting in with the system, Klopp went on to explain that he sees the midfielder playing in a number of roles.

"I see him as an '8', he can play '10' as well, maybe in the future he can play '6' as well," he said.

Klopp was also quick to acknowledge that Keita impressed a lot at Leipzig when he was utilised as a winger, but sees him in a slightly different role on Merseyside.

"At Leipzig, he played as a winger, that's for sure not his best position but he can play it because he has the speed for it, he has the football intelligence for it.

"We see him as a creative No.8 playing the passes and making the runs with the ball. With the ball he has the same speed as without, you don't have a lot of players with this quality.

"We know what he's good in and we try to fit it into our game, but that should not be a big problem."
Liverpool start their season on Sunday August 12 at home to West Ham United. Before then, the Reds face Manchester City on Thursday in the International Champions Cup and Manchester United on Saturday.



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