Liverpool’s standout players during pre-season tour

A look at the best performers for the Reds.

Transcript

00:00So Will, starting with Liverpool and they're obviously back from their pre-season tour,

00:05in terms of standout performers, obviously sometimes pre-season you can't look massively

00:10into at times, but it does sort of set a nice thing to look ahead for the actual competitive

00:16season to begin. Has there sort of been a standout performer for Arnie Slott's side so far?

00:22Yeah, there are a few. It was obviously good to see the sort of changes that have been made

00:27since Arnie Slott has arrived as manager and yeah, maybe a little bit more progressive

00:33through the middle of the pitch. But yeah, there's some standout performers. I mean,

00:38Gelo Kwanzaa was excellent in all three games, you know, he had that breakthrough campaign

00:43last season and now I think he's put himself firmly ahead in the peccan order to start that

00:49opening day against Ipswich, because Ibrahim Kanati has come back late, he only played 45

00:54minutes in the final game, had injury problems at the end of last season and Joe Gomez has only

01:01just arrived back, he didn't take part in the tour, he checked back in in Kervia to training

01:07ground. So it looks like Gelo Kwanzaa, if he can keep it up, is in line, he has a really strong

01:12pre-season. Harvey Elliott was excellent, another one who has done himself no harm whatsoever. He

01:17ended the season really, really strongly last campaign and Jadon Klopp said probably that was

01:22as big of a regressive as final season, not playing Harvey Elliott more. So in one of those midfield

01:27positions and maybe, you know, a performer who now has a bit of an uncertain future, Fabio Carvalho,

01:34he performed really well on the left wing and scored fantastic goals against Man United

01:40and scored against Arsenal as well and he's come back from his loaner hole, he looks sharp but

01:46is he better than what Liverpool have got realistically? Is he better than, you know,

01:50Slott regards him as a left winger rather than a midfielder. I think Fabio Carvalho ideally wants

01:58to play in the number 10 role but Liverpool have got Harvey Elliott there, they've got other players

02:03who can play in the attacking role and is he better than Lewis Dales on the left wing? Is he better

02:08than Joel Jost? Is he better than Cody Gaspo who might get moved there? Well, probably not. So I

02:13think maybe Liverpool and Fabio Carvalho have got a decision to make but based on his performances,

02:19his price tag's probably increased so, you know, Liverpool will be happy with that and yeah,

02:24players like Mo Salah look sharp, he's benefited from not having a tournament and Connor Bradley

02:30has been excellent, obviously Trent Alexander-Arnold, the first choice there but overall some good

02:37performances out in America but yeah, there's big hitters who've arrived back now at Liverpool like

02:44St Van Dijk and Alexander-Arnold, Alexis McAllister, Darwin Nunes, so things are only going to hot up places.