Milos Kerkez’s Liverpool career is on thin ice after Arsenal push Reds towards January upgrade

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It had to be by design that Liverpool continued to get Milos Kerkez into good crossing positions wide on the left, because after good combinations by those in red, the Hungarian inevitably appeared with time and space to put a ball into the box.In fairness to Kerkez, he did create Liverpool’s clearest chance of the game, putting the ball on a plate for Alexis Mac Allister to head over the bar. After more than one year of trying, the defeat against Arsenal made it fairly clear that if they want to upgrade their starting XI, Liverpool have to start with the left-back.

Liverpool need better at left-back Liverpool’s left-back issue has actually dated all the way back to the 2023/24 season, when Joe Gomez was forced to spend most of the campaign out of position at full-back. Andy Robertson rallied back as Liverpool won the Premier League the following year, but the Scotsman was clearly on the decline as well, and though Kerkez was supposed to be a like-for-like return to Robertson’s best days with the Reds, he has not shown that so far.

It has become a running joke for Liverpool fans online that when Kerkez plays they miss Tsimikas and when Tsimikas plays they miss Kerkez, with both players looking like a weak link in the team whenever they do play. As a result, Liverpool know that they absolutely will have to do something at left-back.