Liverpool boss Klopp: I had no clue Szoboszlai would settle as he has

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29 Nov 2023 • 5:58 PM MYT
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Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp admits Dominik Szoboszlai's ease in settling in this season has surprised him.

The Hungary captain has shone since his arrival in the summer from RB Leipzig.

You see a player, you see a guy in a Leipzig shirt doing good stuff, but we had talks obviously and there was a really confident, nice, funny young man that's good as well," says Klopp to PLP of recruiting Szoboszlai.

I had no clue how he would get into the team [vibe], like in the dressing room, and that's obviously pretty special as well.

This natural confidence, this kind of charisma, you just cannot train or whatever, you have it or you don't have it. And he has it, definitely."

Szoboszlai says: I don't want to change. Many people [were] asking my friends did I change since I got famous or I got money or these kinds of things.

They can just answer, 'No.' I'm the same guy who I was before and I will never change.

And if I told my dad I would change because of something money, fame, these things he would give me one in the face and say, 'Concentrate. Be focused.'"