DBasia.news – Similar like the defending champion Manchester City, Liverpool are the strong candidate to win the Premier League title this season. Their chance to win it is bigger after the positive summer transfer, where they recruited Naby Keita, Fabinho, Xherdan Shaqiri, and Alisson Becker.
The signal is getting strong after Liverpool won 4-0 against West Ham United in the first week of 2018-2019 Premier League. It seemed like Liverpool had no difficulty in beating West Ham, who did big spending in the transfer market and had the new manager who frequently won the Premier League, Manuel Pellegrini.
The supporters’ expectation toward Liverpool is very big. But the manager Jurgen Klopp lowering down the expectation by saying that his team aren’t the trophy winner, not the superior team. Klopp analogized his team like Rocky Balboa, the fiction boxer in the movie “Rocky Balboa” who fought very hard to be successful.
Xherdan Shaqiri
The competition also happened in the internal level to get the playing position, especially in the central field. Liverpool spent at least £90M to get Fabinho and Keita. Both filled the central field who already occupied by Georginio Wijnaldum, Jordan Henderson, James Milner, Marko Grujic, Adam Lallana, and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.
The full composition of the central squad of Liverpool raised the rumor of Wijnaldum exit to Fenerbahce. The Belgium midfielder denied the rumor and said he would be ready to compete for the playing position in the second line of Liverpool. Wijnaldum welcomed the new recruitment of The Reds positively.
“I laugh about it! I also read that I asked the club if I could leave. I never had a conversation with the club! People from the outside just see Liverpool are buying players, so [they think] players who are already here are going to leave. Liverpool will always buy good players, even if they already have good players. That’s normal,” Wijnaldum explained.
Alisson Becker
“I think it has to be normal for a club like Liverpool because that means you’re a big club. But that was something from the media that I was going to Turkey. Maybe because Phillip Cocu is the manager and I worked with him for two years. I don’t know who put it in the media, but it wasn’t me!” he emphasized, as reported by Guardian.
After defeating West Ham, Liverpool will visit Selhurst Park, the home of Crystal Palace for the Premier League match on Tuesday, August 21. Palace also won their first match 2-0 against the promotion team, Fulham.