JURGEN KLOPP has a decent record when buying big.
So once again, the Liverpool manager has delivered some belting business in landing Hungarian international Dominik Szoboszlai.
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Dominik Szoboszlai starred once again and scored an impressive goal
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Mo Salah showed no signs of the transfer speculation affecting him
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Liverpool won three victories after an overwhelming victory over Aston Villa to help Jurgen Klopp have fun in his 300th match at Anfield.
The Hungarian midfielder is the club’s fourth biggest signing after new skipper Virgil van Dijk (£75million), keeper Alisson (£67m) and striker Darwin Nunez (£64m) who is now finding his feet in the Premier League.
Yet at £60m from Leipzig, in these bonkers days of transfer fees, you could say Szoboszlai is almost a bargain.
He scored his first goal for the club as Liverpool cruised to an easy win with Villa’s Matty Cash scoring an own goal and Mo Salah – still featuring despite the massive interest from Saudi Arabia – getting the third.
But apart from a brilliant finish from Szoboszlai, it was the way he added some real energy and class into a Reds midfield which overwhelmed Unai Emery’s Villa side.
Because this first 45 minutes, with Trent Alexander-Arnold also starring, was Liverpool’s best of the season by some distance.
Villa will have believed they had a chance to win something with Joe Gomez and Joel Matip standing in for the injured Ibrahim Konate and suspended Virgil van Dijk in the center of defense.
Instead, Szoboszlai, fellow newcomer Alexis Mac Allister, and Curtis Jones absolutely controlled the midfield before Jurgen Klopp made his substitutions in the second half with the game well in hand. As a result, Villa’s forwards hardly got a sniff.
Salah had another opportunity to celebrate in front of the Kop. Liverpool’s supporters will hope this is not the last they see of him because the Saudi Arabian transfer window is still open.
Because even if they get £200m for Salah, he is irreplaceable