On February 8, 2023, Ronald Koeman, the Netherlands national team coach who recently returned to this job following Louis van Gaal left following the end of the 2022 World Cup, gave an interview with his views on Cody Kakpo, who moved to football in the English Premier League with Liverpool through the top program. Andy van der Meyde’s YouTube channel, former “Orange Knight” and Everton player in 2005-2009
Koeman, who has experience in the Premier League with Southampton from 2014-16 and Everton from 2016-17, commented that Kodi Kakpo, who was previously linked with Manchester United, made a mistake in hastily leaving. PSV Eindhoven joined Liverpool for a fee including bonuses of 44 million pounds (1,804 million baht) in the January transfer market. instead of the summer which has more time to adjust By now, the 23-year-old offensive line has played six matches for “Reds” but still scores goals. or can’t assist at all
former Barcelona manager Giving examples of the mistakes made by players of the same nationality in hasty transfers, he identified three signs that the Kakpo are likely to fail in England: “The standards in England are clearly higher than in the Netherlands. But they’re still young people, aren’t they? It’s like Ryan Grafenberg moved from Ajax to Bayern Munich and barely played. That was difficult.
“(3 failed signs) You can see that he ends up with a team that is underperforming. That made things more difficult for him as a new player. You will be tested immediately. and if you don’t score a goal or you don’t play a significant role And you can’t beat any game. It will be even more difficult. especially for young players If it’s a 28 year old with experience It would be different.
Kakpo had been linked with a move to Manchester United for a long time before Liverpool eventually pounced on him. But with works like this, the “Red Devils” fans are secretly happy to move to the “Reds”, their forever rivals. Which at this time is having a poor performance Eliminated in both the FA Cup and League Cup as well as dropping to 10th place in the Premier League.