Dominik Szoboszlai reveals the time he felt curious about knowing each development of his transfer from RB Leipzig to Liverpool.
On June 28, The Athletic (subscription required) revealed for the first time that the Reds are exploring a deal to sign the Hungary captain. Newcastle United were in the race too.
Three days later, Liverpool completed the deal to sign the 22-year-old on a five-year contract by triggering the release clause worth £60m. Out of all the smoothly run transfer negotiations the Reds generally undergo, this one was right at the top regarding the swiftness.
Here’s what Szoboszlai said when asked to share about the time between the start of the transfer rumour and the deal getting completed (h/t Liverpool website
):“My agent wrote in our WhatsApp group [about Liverpool’s interest]; I was on holiday, my father was doing something else and my agent was also somewhere else. We had a group call.
“My agent doesn’t want to say before anything is fixed, so he doesn’t come to me and say, ‘It may be possible.’ He only comes to me when he says it’s close and he needs me now to decide. So then we had a call and everything.
“But of course I saw the rumours and I wrote to him every day… ‘Anything happening? Anything happening?’ I wanted to know. He said, ‘Just don’t worry, wait.’”
If at all we had doubts about how excited the player was to join Liverpool, the quotes above put that to rest. To add to that, he is a very good footballer who has already glimpses of what he is capable of in the three pre-season games we have watched so far.
Szoboszlai is a highly technical player who would be expected to take one of the attacking number eight positions in the team. With the running and clever space finding of Alexis Mac Allister along side, Jurgen Klopp is close to having a midfield that can dominate most oppositions.
If Liverpool can top this transfer window off by signing a defensive midfielder who can complement the work Mac Allister and Szoboszlai will do between both boxes, it would be excellent.
Coming back to the latter, although he is still only 22 years old, he is the captain of his national side and has already played over 100 top-flight games in Germany and Austria combined before signing for Liverpool. He would be an exceptional player for our club.
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