Milos Kerkez
Milos Kerkez
Date of Birth: 7 November 2003
Current Club: Liverpool.
Previous Clubs: AFC Bournemouth, AZ Alkmaar, AC Milan, ETO FC Gyor, Hodmezovasarhely, Rapid Vienna, FK Hajduk 1912, OFK Vrbas.
Loan Clubs: N/A.
International: Hungary 23 appearances.
Trophies Won: N/A.
What do you do when Andy Robertson is getting too old to charge up and down the flank like an angry bull causing havoc? You go out and get what looks to be a slightly improved player, though with a bit less s**thousery! Kerkez is a very similar style of player to Robertson, a rampaging wing-back who will charge up and down the left flank for 90 minutes, no matter what the score is he will still be bombing forward to get involved in attacks and racing back to help defend.
He is an extremely hard worker, with excellent pace and good stamina, he will still be running hard in the final minute, though I have noticed he often goes down with cramp in matches. I wonder if Kerkez is just under instruction to time waste a little, rather than actually cramping up? If it is a genuine cramp problem, that is a worry in this day and age, with modern sports science and diets, and it will need to be looked at.
It used to happen regularly in the past as players were all heavy drinkers, but Kerkez is not a party animal type of player, so it might just be something as simple as changing what he has at half-time and/or his pre-match meal. Other than that, the only real weakness in his game that I have noticed is his defending. Not his one-on-one defending against a winger trying to run him, he is very good at dealing with those situations, it is his defending when the team is set in their positions.
His positional sense and defensive awareness is not the best, Kerkez can lose track of where he should be and drift. That is something that can be drilled into a player, so it is not the most worrying of things, and also having a vocal centre-back in van Dijk next to him, talking him through it, will help a lot. Aerially he looks good for a full-back, he has a good leap and is not one of those short full-backs as he is around 5ft 11".
But Kerkez's strengths are mainly his attacking, he is an extremely willing runner and will constantly overlap and underlap the forward in front of him. He is also very likely to burst into the box to try and get on the end of a cross or pass. His technique is very clean, he rarely miscontrols the ball or mishits it, which helps with his delivery from the flanks or when he is taking a shot.
He is the kind of player fans love, as there is never any doubt that Kerkez is giving 100%, it is just not in him to take it easy. In a transfer window packed with top class signings for Liverpool, he does not look at all out of place.
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