Liverpool’s young goalkeeper Kamil Grabara has revealed that his loan side Huddersfield Town’s poor form is affecting his confidence.
The 20-year-old signed a new long-term deal with the Reds before heading out on loan to the Terriers, but his team sit second bottom of the Championship after claiming just one point from five games so far this term.
Grabara has now spoken out: “I always believe in myself but the results have an effect on that,” he told The Examiner. “We are not making as many points that we want to make. I can say what I want but I cannot change the results.
“I was in an environment [at Liverpool] where they do not lose many games in a season but when I was before on loan I had an experience where we lost seven games in a row. Maybe that’s not something to be proud of but I know how it is already. I came here to help the boys and the boys are here to help me.”
OPINION
This is an honest and frank assessment of things from Grabara. When you look at it at this moment in time you’d have to say that Liverpool sent Grabara to the worst possible situation for a young player out on loan. Huddersfield seem to be an absolute mess of a club at the moment, similar to how Sunderland looked when they suffered back-to-back relegations from the Premier League down to League One. That’s not an environment that you want your young goalkeeper in, but that’s where Grabara finds himself. He is himself admitting, here, that the Terriers’ poor form is affecting his confidence, which is the last thing Jurgen Klopp will want to hear. The club handed him a new long-term contract because they believe in him, obviously, but if he suffers a knock on his confidence out at Huddersfield then he may never be able to come good on the potential that the Reds see him as having. Still, it’s early days yet, so let’s hope he and his team can turn things around as soon as possible.
