Ryan Gravenberch is one player who has got the supporters a lot excited about. The Dutchman can play in multiple positions and has a wide range of skillset at his disposal.
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Liverpool had an extremely productive transfer window this time around. They invested heavily in the market but their primary focus was on one position – midfield. The Reds signed a total of four midfielders – Alexis Mac Allister, Dominik Szoboszlai, Wataru Endo and Ryan Gravenberch. Mac Allister and Szoboszlai arrived early in the summer. In the later stages of the window, Endo and Gravenberch were signed.
Ryan Gravenberch is one player who has got the supporters a lot excited about. The Dutchman can play in multiple positions and has a wide range of skillset at his disposal. Ahead of Liverpool’s Premier League trip to Wolverhampton Wanderers, Jurgen Klopp was asked on the qualities he saw in Gravenberch to bring him to the club. Klopp, quoted as saying by the club’s website in his pre-match press conference, said, “I wouldn’t want to choose one, to be honest. The package is really interesting. He’s good in small spaces and that’s now really special, good in big spaces as well.”
The manager added: “He can accelerate with the ball, he can really drive the ball, he has a really good overview, he is a good passer, a good shooter. The full week training now. Everybody said before and he knows that, he’s a really skilled boy, always was. When he moved to Bayern he had already more than 100 games at Ajax, that’s not a usual career until then. But everybody would have said defensively he can make the next step 100 per cent, but I see that he wants that, he got that 100 per cent. He’s really in that, he’s working extremely hard.”
However, Klopp is not sure how long will it take for Gravenberch to reach anywhere close to his peak. “It’s obviously really nice for him – OK, Cody only arrived yesterday I think, but having Virg and Cody around. He’s the same age group like most of the boys now. And it’s really cool having him. He is a good guy and a player with massive potential. I don’t know where he will end up, he has to fit in what we are doing but he will. How long it will take, I don’t know, we will see, to reach closer to his peak but we will work on that. He is here for a long time and I’m really happy that he’s here and we can start that,” he stated.
The Liverpool manager then shifted his focus to the upcoming game against Wolves. Asked about challenge of facing Wolves at Molineux, Klopp replied, “It’s the Premier League, if you asked me now, ‘Is there any away ground where you like to go and think oh my God, we have the points already’, there is none. Wolves for sure not as well. 100 per cent sure the manager didn’t want to lose Matheus Nunes late in the window, they lost a few key players.”
He added: “And then you look at the line-up and think, ‘Wow, that’s real quality.’ Players like Hwang and Kalajdzic don’t even start, they still have Neto and other guys, so it’s a really, really good football team and that’s the team we prepare for. Were unlucky obviously now early in the season already with decisions, which happens to all of us but not all these decisions lead directly to a bad result – in their case I think it was like that. We expect a massive fight and that’s what we have to be ready for.”
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