Why Bradley Barcola did not want to do any interviews after scoring his first Liverpool goals

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Bradley Barcola will be a relieved man after finally paying back some of his £123m transfer fee by scoring a Champions League hat-trick on Wednesday. Concerns had been growing over Barcola and his lack of output after the Frenchman failed to do anything much across his first six appearances for Liverpool.Thankfully for him, his seventh was fantastic, and the hope will be that the pressure is now off Barcola as he settles into life on Merseyside.

Part of that process will be to improve his English and communicate better with his teammates, and, as he confirmed to reporters desperate for a comment after his star turn against LASK, that is still a work in progress.Here's our player ratings! Who deserves higher or, perhaps, even lower? 🤔 Barcola still needs to improve his English Barcola has done some interviews since his arrival at Liverpool in August, but they have exclusively been delivered in French so far.

We have heard one or two words of English as he greets his fellow Reds, but it is clear that Barcola joined the club without speaking the language. No, sorry, it’s not good enough,” Barcola reportedly told journalists waiting to hear what he had to say after scoring his first Liverpool goals.