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Sakho reveals secret to improvement at LFC

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Sakho appears to have now won over Brendan Rodgers

Sakho appears to have now won over Brendan Rodgers

It’s certainly been a long road to regular first team football at Anfield for Liverpool’s Mamadou Sakho, but he now believes he has finally settled in at the club, following his much heralded £18 million move from PSG.

The first year or so of the big Frenchman’s career at Liverpool did not go quite as planned, as Sakho struggled to settle in and his form was not quite up to scratch. But Sakho now believes his struggles are behind him and he believes that learning English has played a huge part in his return to the team.

Speaking to French magazine, L’Equipe, Sakho said:

“Do I finally feel happy at Liverpool? Yes, I feel good. The most difficult thing has been the language.

“I am a man of strong character so when I can’t express myself I am always frustrated, and if I cannot make myself understood it is even worse.”

Sakho came to Liverpool with a big reputation in France. Here was a young defender that was appointed captain of France’s biggest club side at a very young age, who the club were very reluctant to sell and was considered a huge coup for the Reds at the time.

But having got to grips with the language and change in culture, Sakho can now settle in to turning in some top class defensive displays. He continued: “Some people said that I should be speaking French and that would allow me to release the tension a bit, except that when I spoke in French on the pitch nobody understood what I was saying.

“I said to myself: ‘This is useless – I really must learn’. It took time but now it is very good.”

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