Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp advised Dominik Szoboszlai is like Cristiano Ronaldo
Liverpool and Jurgen Klopp have been advised tips on how to get the very best out of Dominik Szoboszlai by his former coach and ex-MLS supervisor. The Hungarian midfielder is on his option to Merseyside and his former coach has hailed the younger star as probably the greatest abilities within the recreation.
Austrian supervisor, Gerhard Struber was lucky sufficient to have witnessed Szoboszlai’s ability at an early age. The coach loved a diverse managerial profession that took him from RB Salzburg to Barnsley, after which New York Red Bulls in MLS.
However, it was again in Austria the place he observed Szoboszlai’s expertise on the ball and eye for aim whereas he was on the Salzburg academy. During this time the Hungarian was taking part in below the coach at feeder membership FC Liefering.
Speaking to Redmen TV, Struber recalled what made the 22-year-old stick in his reminiscence. He mentioned: “I’ve many many huge abilities subsequent to me like Naby Keita, Taki Minamino, Patson Daka – so many gamers who play for Leipzig within the German Bundesliga after which make the leap to the Premier League.
“I had so many top talents next to me but I can say Dominik Szoboszlai was always a player who surprised us. We saw the potential in him at this time and also what I see and I never forget is that sometimes the team would have an off day and he was always on the field.
“He would prepare on days off. I used to be in my workplace, I can see him outdoors and he would make some particular nook kicks, free kicks with the balls on the sector. I feel subsequent to a high expertise what he’s, I can see additionally a excessive ambition and on this route, two issues come collectively – very excessive work ethic plus a brilliant expertise.”
Not only was the Hungarian’s talent memorable, but Struber also reveals how he would suit Jurgen Klopp’s style: “I feel generally a match plan was not useful – he wants freedom, he wants house for himself to create his particular route. He did a terrific job in the previous couple of years and this step to Liverpool could possibly be the subsequent trampoline for Liverpool.”
Struber’s feedback are paying homage to one other participant who joined the Premier League at a younger age and went on to change into one of many biggest abilities within the recreation. Former Manchester United participant Nicky Butt recalled an analogous story about when Cristiano Ronaldo burst onto the scene in England.
Speaking in a foreword to a e book known as “Viva Ronaldo! The Second Coming of Cristiano,” Butt said: “He was the final to go away the constructing. In truth, you could not get him off the coaching pitch as he labored relentlessly on his methods, as we have been all strolling off he was carrying a bag of balls to work on these methods.
“We would be having lunch in the canteen or getting ready to go home and you could hear the voice of Sir Alex bellowing across the training fields at two or three o’clock in the afternoon, shouting at Cristiano that it was time to get off the pitch as ‘we have a game in two days — enough now’!”