No, I saw all preseason games of him. He just doesn't look to be an upgrade over Hendo, Milner and Gini. For what do we need him? We have Keita, Lallana, Shaq, soon Ox again. Enough material for midfield. I don't say Fabinho is sh*t, but he's no Salah either.
He'll be grand. Klopp working him into learning about dealing with different channels and phases in midfield will obviously take time. Robertson took time to nail his position down.
Fabinho started as a defender and I think you can see that in some of his game. He's playing to central/rigid in what he does at the moment, which is why Henderson and Gini are going to be in front of him at the moment.
Nice to have those options in the squad for once and I reckon he'll be an option for DM or CB if the squad was under pressure.
We're not used to these issues as Liverpool fans as normally the squad is waiver thin. Now we've got proper squad rotation.
Isn't it great.
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