Adam Melia

But actually beyond that, because I think he is your uber mercurial.

We need the German for mercurial at this point.

But I think he is, and the others are all lesser mercurials because you sign a player like him,

And I think what you do, you've got a level of risk in terms of if you get it wrong in terms of the building blocks around him and how you're setting up your team, then you're going to spend the next five years chasing your tail and he's going to give you as many problems as he has solutions.

And I want Liverpool to avoid that and just go all in on the fact that they've signed the fella.

They believe in him.

They've invested a huge amount of financial resource in him.

then they've got to then answer those problems behind him to give him the platform to go and be the best version of himself.

And at the moment, it's no surprise to me, not just in terms of his first season in the Premier League and adapting, but also the team's not set up for him.

It's not.

And it leads to a...

a more difficult discussion because you mentioned Sabozlai there and you can bring Grafenberg into the equation here as well and McAllister Liverpool reshaped their midfield only a couple of years ago invested heavily and bought an entirely new midfield that midfield goes on and wins the Premier League it's very hard to criticise that midfield but then you go and you go and advert into the mix and people were crying out for it last year because they were saying that Liverpool's midfield and where Sabozlai played in the 10th

And he wasn't really a 10.

He was somewhere between an 8 and a 10.

But people were demanding that they wanted more technical ability there and a greater skill set.

But you're losing something there straight away where you're losing his physical dominance.

But you put Viet into that position, then what's behind him doesn't offer the same kind of platform that he needs.

It doesn't give him the building blocks that he needs.

You look at Sabozlai, well, he played deeper at the weekend.

And there was certainly a lot to be encouraged about in his position there.