Ian Ryan

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The Anfield Wrap · Barcola, Gakpo and Liverpool's Options In Midfield | The Gutter · 30 Jul 2026 podcast

So then that would say to you then he's more comfortable coming inside.

I've watched Leo a couple of times on the right.

I've seen him...

for England on the right I thought he'd done okay I don't think he was that great last night despite the goal I think there was a few tactical elements when I think Jeremy Frimpong was on the right hand side and I felt like Rio could have done the under lap and he didn't he stayed back and maybe people would criticise Frimpong for the poor quality but I feel like there was a lack of run there maybe that's

Maybe that's because he's got heavier legs, maybe that's the double sessions, maybe it's because it's completely alien to him and he can grow into that.

But I do think we're missing a trick here, literally because we've not seen him in a Liverpool shirt and since we signed him, we didn't see him play for Spain.

There is an option there for him to play and I know that we all want to see Dominic Sabozla in midfield,

midfielders arriving late in that area can help I think the system being fluid is what I'm trying to get at that sometimes it's been spoken for weeks now but a lopsided attack that possibly it's Moose pushing this yeah but I don't think it's a bad show so when I'm

that would be i mean let's put it this way let me put it to you in this sense if i can wave a magic wand and say we'll swap cody but gap for ferran torres and we'll get 10 or 20 million on top would you deal on that oh absolutely um i'm picking up that red phone and i'm i'm not sure we did it in the transfer game didn't we it is yeah i think i think just to be fair on cody i think he's not about this since he's come in he come in in the time when liverpool were really struggling and he

he was to shine a light a little bit down because he i think he played in the in the bobby for me in your role originally and that's i think it was 2073 when he come in and he has had a good little career when we won the league he had some really really important goals i know it was against some of the lower sides but he seemed to be like a clutch player at times and when you needed the goal you thought this isn't working and he'd come on and eat he'd really show some metal he wasn't great last season so

Listen, I know what I'm trying to say is he is a quality footballer, but just to throw it back at you for a second, I know Ferran Torres, that'd be a great sign, but hypothetically, if we were going to go back to Minter and you're saying about, I don't want Minter for that amount of money, but if you could swap him, it's more the fact that what I'm getting at is...

Minto would allow you to play how you want to play so you might not get as many goals but it would allow your system to be more fluid and how Liverpool and how Areola would want to play where Gakpo doesn't do that and that's the problem and that's where Liverpool fans struggle.

Yeah, absolutely.

But I also think defensively as well, because I think that goes unnoticed that he can't protect the full-back and he doesn't talk into midfield.

And you talk about McAllister, there's no doubt about it that his former season was nowhere near it, but he was exposed.

Luis Diaz done a lot of the heavy lifting for him and protected the space.

Gakpo's just not that type of player and that's why I want to be fair to him because I think loads of people criticise him a lot unfairly but he's not that type of footballer but then Liverpool need to do something if the market is a seller's market and can they be smart because they're always talking about how smart they are

then be smart and get them out, get someone in that's more fitting for the system.

Yeah, but you've got to look at it as well.

De Zerbi is no mug, is he?

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