‘There are a couple of things he has to adapt for how we play’
Thiago Alcântara marks his one-year anniversary as a Liverpool player on Saturday with Jürgen Klopp insisting there is more to come from a player with the chipping ability of “a world-class golfer”.
The Spain international has yet to firmly establish himself in Liverpool’s midfield since his much-anticipated £20m arrival from Bayern Munich, although gave a demonstration of his class in Sunday’s 3-0 win at Leeds. Thiago missed two months of his debut Liverpool season with a knee injury suffered at Everton, his first start for the club, and began this campaign with a minor problem carried over from Euro 2020.
But Klopp expects the 30-year-old to demonstrate his value consistently with interruptions behind him. “The start was not perfect because he got Covid and got injured early,” the manager said. “