Daniel Gabbidon blasted Liverpool midfielder Naby Keita following his performance against Arsenal in the EFL Cup on Wednesday.
The BBC pundit claimed he needed answers from the midfield enforcer, with him posting an embarrassed face to accompany the message, which implied he wasn’t happy with what he saw from Keita against Arsenal.
“Naby Keita…I need answers!” wrote Gabbidon, via his verified Twitter account.
Gabbidon then started discussing Keita with a Liverpool fan who tried to defend him to some degree, and the pundit admitted that he didn’t think the midfielder has looked physically right since day one.
“I watch him and he don’t look right physically,” added the former defender.
“Thought that from day one.”
The aforementioned Liverpool fan then stated that Keita had a reputation of being tough-tackling midfielder when playing in Germany ahead of arriving at Anfield, and Gabbidon admitted he hadn’t seen anything to suggest that the 24-year-old had lived up to being that type of the player with the Reds.
“Nope ain’t seen it,” responded Gabbidon.
Naby Keita… I need answers! ?#LFC
— Daniel Gabbidon (@Gabbidon35) October 30, 2019
I watch him and he don’t look right physically. Thought that from day one.
— Daniel Gabbidon (@Gabbidon35) October 30, 2019
Nope ain’t seen it.
— Daniel Gabbidon (@Gabbidon35) October 30, 2019
OPINION
Gabbidon may have a point about Keita, and that’s the most worrying thing. Liverpool clearly haven’t seen the best of the 24-year-old yet as he has never looked like being a player worth £48million, and that is the amount the club paid to sign him from RB Leipzig (Source: BBC). Yet it’s hard to put his problems solely on him as he has been dealt a bad hand with injuries. The midfielder had four separate injury problems in his debut campaign for the club last season and has already missed eight games of the current campaign due to suffering a torn muscle (Source: Transfermarkt), and it’s not like there’s anything he can do to stop his bad luck. However, maybe the Reds medical team made an error based on Gabbidon’s view as clearly he believes there’s been something wrong with the player since he arrived, and he was meant to be 100% when he rocked up at the club. Yet then again, it could just be bad luck as the Reds medical team haven’t been known to overly mess up or anything like that recently. Aside from the concern about Keita’s injury problems, he did have a poor game against Arsenal as he failed to make any key passes and failed to complete a dribble, as per WhoScored, so clearly something needs to change with him.
