Curtis Jones has one very clear message for Arne Slot on the eve of the Premier League marketing campaign – I’ll play wherever you need me to.
The 23-year-old featured in a deeper midfield function than ordinary for Liverpool in pre-season video games, and whereas he’s acknowledged that a central place is his choice, he’s joyful to adapt to no matter job the brand new head coach provides him inside the workforce.
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The Reds’ quantity 17 instructed the Liverpool Echo: “It’s necessary to be versatile now since you’re not all the time assured to have your house within the workforce the place that’s your place and also you’ve made that mark.
“We play so many video games and there may very well be accidents and stuff, and the supervisor is aware of I can play off the left, I can play as a ten, I can play as an eight, if he wants me to play right-back I’ve performed it earlier than.
“Though I need to be a central midfielder and play there, I’ve tailored to taking part in different areas and if he wants me to play anyplace else, I can do it.”
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The overwhelming majority of Jones’ 133 senior appearances for Liverpool have been in a central midfield function, however he’s sometimes featured as a quantity 6 and 10, has performed on the left and even lined out at right-back towards Brighton within the 2020/21 marketing campaign (Transfermarkt).
One characteristic of the pre-season programme beneath Slot is that, in his system, gamers don’t have a tendency to stick rigidly to a set place, as an alternative interchanging ceaselessly in a fluid setup which guarantees to make for thrilling viewing.
Due to this fact, because the 23-year-old himself has referenced, the chances are he’ll pattern just a few totally different positions not simply over the course of the season, however presumably inside a person match.
For Jones, the goal might be to lastly make himself a daily starter for Liverpool. He was chosen from the off in simply 14 Premier League video games final time period, which continues to be his highest tally of top-flight begins in a single marketing campaign (WhoScored).
He turns 24 subsequent January, so he’s now at an age the place he’s not content material to be out and in of the workforce on a relentless loop. If Slot provides him just a few alternatives over the approaching weeks, the onus is on the Toxteth native to carry out to a level the place the boss merely can’t go away him out.
It must be fascinating to see how our quantity 17 fares beneath the brand new head coach’s tutelage.
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