Liverpool forward Dirk Kuyt has explained how manager Kenny Dalglish and first team coach Steve Clarke have already changed the Reds’ style of play. Kuyt believes it is closer to a “Dutch Style,” more akin to total football.
“It comes close to the Dutch style. Playing with early pressure on the opponents and a passing game with the ball low on the ground. Not all those long balls anymore. Dalglish and Clarke have this vision. If you have Torres and Gerrard in the team, we will be stronger against 80 per cent of the opponents when we put the pressure on them in their own half. The combination of Dalglish and Clarke is a really good one. Clarke has come in from outside the club. He has the same role as he had earlier with Mourinho at Chelsea. Under Clarke we now do totally different training sessions. We do a lot of positional play in small spaces. And while Clarke is doing sessions with us, Dalglish will talk all the stress away from the players.”
Kuyt also revealed that Inter did approach Liverpool over buying the Dutch forward in the summer:
“I intend to stay now. In the summer Inter came to me to find out if I wanted to move. The board of Liverpool took a strong attitude towards them. They did not want me to go because I was one of the five most important players for the team. In my talks with the new board I feel the same kind of trust in me. So in return I want to show my loyalty to the club in these difficult times.”
Kuyt believes too that Liverpool need another striker:
“In our attack we really need a quality injection. Only then can I see us climbing up again. We don’t have enough power and options up front right now.”
This week it is former Liverpool WAG Joanna Taylor!
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Sorry Dirk, you’ve got to leave. You can’t do that…pass but can’t move…
If i were you i’d take a look at what role Dirk played in the third goal at Wolves, as well as his allround contribution during the game!