He didn’t write his words. When criticising his latest performance, Kerkez said “she looked like a baby” and “a young team player.”
“The boy Kerkez, to be honest with you, at this point he looks like a player on the youth team,” he said on the Gary Neville podcast.
“I know he’s a good player, but he looks like he’s playing on a youth team or under the age of 21. He looks very naive. He looks like a baby out there.
“He’s had Premier League experience. He’s not coming from other countries. He has a lot of games under his belt.
“One thing is, he plays with Virgil van Dik, the best center half in the world, so if you want to play in the back four, you want to play with a great defender.
“And he has a hard-working player on that side, and he’s not playing right with Sarah in front of him.
“But I have to say he’s been struggling since the first 10 minutes of his match against Bournemouth in the first game of the season.”
Kerkez wasn’t the only target of Neville’s criticism, and the former England star, alongside Liverpool’s forward line, launched a scathing attack on Jeremy Fripon and Connor Bradley.
“Flimon thinks he should play as the right winger. He doesn’t play like a right back,” he said. “Connor Bradley isn’t doing that, so Andy Robertson is fighting, but he isn’t where he was a few years ago.
“The Liverpool issue has something to do with fullbacks everywhere. You need to make it a button.”
He added:
“Their creative players, their final half of the pitch, their midfielders and their forwards who were of no use for the past 15-20 minutes have lost this game.
“They were giving the ball the ball so you wouldn’t believe them. Gakupo is here. Sarah is on the other side.
“The only thing Wirtz doesn’t know how to get into the game in the last 15 minutes is when it was for filming, and just marking almost a kind of Kayseko, and I was looking at him very well.”
