Curtis Jones, born to star in Klopp’s ‘rock and roll’

He Klopp’s Liverpool it is back. After a season where they had ups and downs in terms of results and lost the essence of the way they played, ‘rock and roll’ is playing again in Anfield.

With the German coach’s teams there are aspects of the game that are non-negotiable. High pressure and intensity are as important as having potatoes in a potato omelet. If you see a Klopp team and you don’t recognize the author, something is wrong. Last season it happened, but like any good coach, the former Borussia Dortmund was able to rise from his ashes.

The Curtis Jones Explosion

For a style of play to work, you need to have players who understand the idea and have the ability to execute it. That’s where it comes in Curtis Jones, a 22-year-old young man who wants to take over the world, and wants to take it into Klopp’s hands. This is a footballer profile that seems to have been designed in a laboratory by the 56-year-old coach. “It is very, very, very important for us,” he said after the victory against Fulham (2-1) in which his pupil scored one of the two goals.

Jones stands out because he adapts to what the game and his coach ask of him, something that very few footballers can give you. The speed and intensity is increasing, he can increase it too. Heart rate drops and you need a softer kind of music, Jones gives you that too. He is the total midfielder. Run, hit, retrieve, help, score and multiply. It appears left, right, center and everywhere in green. With and without the ball. He is a ‘heavy’, who never stops insisting. And in football, as in life, if you knock on the door over and over again, eventually a significant percentage of the time you will knock it down. As a start, as a replacement, whatever it takes. The English midfielder is now a footballer on a mission, to give everything he has to ‘his’ Liverpool. Of course, it was difficult for him because for a while, as he himself admitted, he stopped: ” When I joined the first team, I felt like I hit a wall and couldn’t take the next step. So it’s about getting back into my game and seeing where the improvements are. I’ve always been a boy who just wanted to score goals, catch the ball and run.”

Liverpool are top of the Premier League, in the round of 16 of the Europa League, in the Carabao semi-finals and in the FA Cup round of 32, numbers that would not be the same without the Englishman’s four goals and three assists. in 21 games. More than the steals, the intensity, the continuity, the dynamism and how it eats away at the morale of the rivals. A football player, who, as some English media say, is underestimated by everyone, except Klopp, who sees in him a player born to be famous in his Rock and Roll.