The potential he has and the skill he has already shown… makes him a very fascinating player,” EPL Cody Gakpo, Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp says the forward needed no convincing to join the club ahead of his January move said of Liverpool recruit Cody Gakpo. That’s why we were so eager to bring him in, and I’m so glad we were able to. It’s significant for both us and him. Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp praised new attacker Cody Gakpo as a “very, really intriguing talent” and claimed to entice him to join Liverpool was a “home run” ahead of his deal. Gakpo was revealed as Liverpool’s first acquisition of the 2018 January Transfer Window on Wednesday night, for a sum of between £35m and £45m from PSV Eindhoven.
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The 23-year-old, Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp was a summer target for Manchester United and has been in good form for club and country this season, scoring three times at the World Cup and nine times in 14 Eredivisie games. For the first time, Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp spoke publicly about the move, describing how simple it was to persuade Gakpo to join the club and praising the Liverpool staff who had kept the agreement discreet. He’s a very, really fantastic player,” Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp stated.
“The package is incredibly exciting, the potential he has and the talent he has already shown in Holland and (for) the national team.” It makes him a very fascinating player. That’s why we were so eager to bring him in, and I’m so glad we were able to. It’s significant for both us and him. He’s excited to be joining us. ” We didn’t expressly instruct Virgil [Van Dijk] to talk to him before he joined. When you’re the manager of Liverpool, you believe you have to persuade someone to come – but then you realize the door is more or less open, and it’s a home run.
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Julian [Ward] did an outstanding job bringing Cody in; many individuals were engaged and nothing came out, which is incredibly beneficial in all sectors. We are quite early [with the move], which is wonderful. Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp stated Gakpo may be available for Liverpool’s opening game of 2023, against Brentford on January 2, but he was not hopeful the necessary paperwork would be completed in time – and instead concentrated on their FA Cup third-round clash with Wolves on January 7 for his debut.
The Reds boss remained tight-lipped on the financial effect of any potential January business at Anfield, insisting any signings would be based on finding “the right players” rather than money. In general, the money you spend has an influence on the money you can spend (in the future),” he noted. “It doesn’t increase it. It has nothing to do with each other. We know what we want to accomplish, and we’ll see whether we can pull it off. EPL Cody Gakpo, Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp says the forward needed no convincing to join the club ahead of his January move and also dismissed the notion that the club’s addition of forwards was influenced by injuries to Luis Diaz and Diogo Jota.
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The injuries had no bearing on the signing,” he said. “We wanted to do something from a sporting standpoint two or three months ago without getting the financial green light. We are overjoyed that we were able to get Cody. I’ve heard a little bit of talk about him here and there; he’s a young kid with a lot of promise. He would have been unaffordable if he was already hitting 40 goals in Spain or somewhere. At this type of business, it’s all about time, getting the players in the proper moment when they’re not already hitting 55 goals a season. That’s why we were so persuaded, he constantly took the next move and it’s what makes it so exciting. We believe in our method because when athletes come here, they all make progress because of the way we operate and can assist them.”
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Liverpool’s Boxing Day victory against Aston Villa was their third in a row, their greatest run this season. Before playing Leicester at Anfield on Friday, live on Sky Sports, EPL Cody Gakpo, Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp says the forward needed no convincing to join the club ahead of his January move emphasized the significance of the Reds’ mid-season trip to Dubai over the World Cup break, when his team was allowed to concentrate on returning to previous seasons’ heights. We were really busy throughout the break. “We realized we needed to go back to last season to look at the true conditions,” he said. We worked a lot on these kinds of things.
It wasn’t simple to change right immediately for Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp, the remedy isn’t always there in front of you when you have an issue. I was extremely delighted with the start against Aston Villa, I don’t know how many times I’ve been told we’ve allowed the first goal – it’s something you can’t prevent constantly, but it’s incredibly essential that we found a different start into the game. City in the Carabao Cup was different, that wasn’t what we intended, but against Villa it was.
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That’s the first step into a game; it’s something we focus on, and the intensity in our defensive position, the pushing, must be on a different level. We worked a lot on it, and I saw indications, but it’s a long-term effort – there are another 24 games to go, and Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has to prove it in all of them. During the World Cup, Netherlands manager Louis van Gaal said, “Cody Gakpo has all it takes to become a star,” and the striker seems to be on the fast road to the top of the game after building on his stellar Eredivisie play in Qatar.
A goal in each group stage game – one with his head, one with his left foot, and one with his right foot – demonstrated his quickly developing final-third ability, Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp hunger for the big stage, and variety. His finest Van Gaal performances were as a center-forward or No. 10. At PSV, he shined as a left winger who cut inside. Gakpo, on the other hand, is rigorous about his growth, even engaging a personal tactics coach to analyze his game. His club’s continuously increasing goals and assists-per-90-minute figures suggest that his additional effort is paying off.
That approach will have pleased his suitors just as much as his league-leading goal and assist total. Gakpo is already at a high level at the age of 23, but he is determined to go even more. This makes him an appealing investment. The pace and drive coming in off the wing; power and accuracy in his shooting; inventiveness as the Eredivisie’s top opportunity maker; skill and speed dribbling; aerial danger, as he demonstrated against Senegal… Gakpo had all of the characteristics of a contemporary attacker, and his perfect triple at the World Cup had teams all over Europe fighting for his signature until Liverpool won the race.