Liverpool seem like closing in on offers to herald Milos Kerkez and Florian Wirtz this summer season.
The Merseysiders have each intention of wrapping up phrases with Leverkusen for the latter within the close to future.
Arne Slot’s males have already secured a substitute for outgoing right-back Trent Alexander-Arnold in Jeremie Frimpong.
Liverpool closing in on Milos Kerkez switch
Fabrizio Romano now reviews that Liverpool ‘stay favourites’ to land the Hungarian left-back.
The Italian shared on X (previously Twitter) that Kerkez nonetheless has his coronary heart set on a change to the Premier League champions.
🚨🇭🇺 Perceive negotiations between Liverpool and Bournemouth for Milos Kerkez stay underway.
Liverpool stay favorites to signal the Hungarian left again as talks proceed nicely — might be completed quickly.
Kerkez stays very eager on the transfer, private phrases usually are not a problem. pic.twitter.com/vpOUtpMx1M
— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) Could 25, 2025
The Merseysiders are in want of a revamp within the left-back place. While we’re in completely no rush to dump the skilled Andy Robertson, query marks have began popping up across the Scot’s potential to carry down a beginning berth.
Season (Premier League)
Andy Robertson’s common scores
2024/25
6.83*
2023/24
7.43
2022/23
6.91
2021/22
7.36
* Andy Robertson common season rankings, through Sofascore
To be clear, the previous Hull Metropolis man remains to be, in our view, a significantly superior different to present backup Kostas Tsimikas.
Nonetheless, our hope could be that Kerkez might are available in and extra actively problem Robertson for a beginning spot.
What would Kerkez deliver to Liverpool?
There are different outfits reportedly eager on left-backs, like Milos Kerkez, accessible available in the market.
Nonetheless, it appears that is one other switch we will most likely safely assume goes to prove in our favour.
Wherein case, we reckon we will begin to get excited in regards to the attributes the Cherries star might deliver to L4.
A willingness to hold the ball up the pitch (with affordable success) is one such trait. Kerkez at the moment averages 0.6 profitable dribbles per sport, in comparison with Robertson’s 0.2.
It must be famous that the Hungary worldwide has a significantly decrease xA ranking in 2024/25 in comparison with his Liverpool counterpart, regardless of accruing an important deal extra minutes on the pitch.
Andy Robertson stats
Milos Kerkez stats
Whole minutes
2,407
3,252
Assists
1
5
xA
4.21
2.51
Massive possibilities created
7
8
Profitable dribbles (per sport)
0.2 (41.2%)
0.6 (58.3%)
* Andy Robertson and Milos Kerkez stats, through Sofascore
Regardless, these are encouraging numbers from a fullback 10 years Andy Robertson’s junior.
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