Dominik Szoboszlai 60 million pound bargain
Before the start of the season the main area to address for Liverpool FC was midfield with Milner, Keita and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain moving on free transfers Fabinho and Henderson sold for a combined fee of around 52 million pounds Liverpool not only had to add quality players but also had to bring in players for depth. It has been a smooth transition and the midfield rebuild has been quite good by signing Mac Allister, Wataru Endo, Ryan Gravenberch and Dominik Szoboszlai for a combined fees of around 160 million pounds is proving to be good value for money considering they are currently are 4th in the league and just 3 points behind league leaders Spurs .In this post will be looking at Dominik Szoboszlai’s impact on the team.
Signed from RB Leipzig for a reported 60 million pounds is proving to be a bargain and has made an instant impact and has fitted in the RCM role seamlessly and given an extra dimension on the RHS with Trent and Salah. He has good technical ability who was mostly deployed as a wide forward during his time at Leipzig but also very versatile who can play in midfield too. Since joining Liverpool he has been played in different positions in a pivot midfield and on the wings too and he excels wherever he has asked to be played .
As you can see the player radar above from DataMB you can see he is a very good carrier of the ball in the 91.2% percentile and has good physicality and in the 86% percentile for duels which is incredible considering the fact that he has been playing a new role for LFC. According to Fbref he attemtpts 68.50 passes per game with a pass completion of 85.4 % .He has scored 1goal and has 2 assists with an xg of 0.08 . He makes 2.7 progressive carries per game and makes 7.40 progressive carries per game .He has also made a good connection with his teammates in midfield considering its a totally new midfield.He is also involved in 5.10 Shot creating Actions also making 7.60 recoveries per game putting him in the top 92 % percentile in the league.
Szoboszlai can prove to be an important signing like Salah and Van Dijk and already established that he is one of the league’s best midfielders .He has the technical ability and physicality to be even better given that he is just 22 years old . If he can stay fit Liverpool could finish top 4 or even challenge for the title .