Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp is buzzing over the switch of World Cup winner Alexis Mac Allister. The participant put pen-to-paper on a long-term deal at Anfield on Thursday morning following a four-and-a-half 12 months spell at Brighton.
Mac Allister loved an unimaginable season all through the 2022/23 marketing campaign and helped Brighton end sixth within the Premier League desk simply months after starring for Argentina on their technique to World Cup success in Qatar.
The 24-year-old, who began six of his nation’s seven World Cup matches, bagged 10 Premier League targets because the Seagulls secured their finest ever top-flight end. And following the ace’s transfer to the north west, Klopp advised the Liverpool web site: “We’re including a really gifted, very good, very technically expert boy to our squad and that is tremendous information, actually it’s.
“I don’t suppose the soccer world wants me to say an excessive amount of about Alexis’ qualities as a result of they’re already fairly well-known, however it’s clear that he’s somebody who can play in plenty of positions within the midfield and is an all-rounder, I’d say. He’s calm and composed and somebody with correct recreation intelligence.
“In fact, he’s a participant we now have recognized about for a very long time and I’ve watched him develop from a younger boy coming into the Premier League to a person who helped his nation win the World Cup. That’s fairly a journey.
“My admiration and respect for what Brighton are doing is well-known and Alexis has been part of the journey that they’ve been on in changing into one of many hardest and finest sides within the Premier League.
“I’m actually comfortable his subsequent steps will now be with us and we get to work with a participant who’s already wonderful and skilled, but in addition has a lot extra to come back given he’s simply 24 years outdated.
“He’s simply as excited to be becoming a member of and dealing with us and that already makes it partnership, however there isn’t any strain on him. He’s nonetheless so younger, so it’s apparent he’ll solely enhance and our job is to assist him take the subsequent steps. I’m grateful to everybody on the membership who helped make this switch occur and I’m positive I communicate for everybody right here after I say I can’t wait to begin working with Alexis.”