Milos Kerkez has admitted he would like to play for a team at the “highest level” and has revealed his agent is working on a possible summer transfer.
The Bournemouth defender is enjoying a superb season and has started every single Premier League match in a campaign that has seen Andoni Iraola’s side compete for a European spot and reach the quarter-finals of the FA Cup. His form has invariably resulted in the left-back being linked with several of Europe’s biggest clubs, but it’s Liverpool who has been reported as having the strongest interest in the player.
Liverpool fans have taken to his Instagram in a bid to persuade the defender to join and here’s every chance that the Hungarian will be Liverpool’s new long-term left-back after Andy Roberson.
Those rumors will only intensify after Kerkez said he would like to play for one of Europe’s top clubs. In an interview with The Athletic, the 21-year-old was asked if he wants to represent an elite side, and replied: “Yeah. As a kid, you dream to play at the highest level, win the trophies, be on the best teams.
“These are the things that my agent is on. My dad is on,” he added. “It is not something that they occupy me with because the season is still going, so there’s no point to talk about anything.
“There’s games left, the FA Cup is important for us — these are big things. And then, like I say, when someone comes [in for you] you never know what’s going to happen or where you’re going to end up. In the summer, we will see what happens.”
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A report in the i Paper over the international break indicated that Kerkez could cost as little as £40million ($52M) this summer and his brother this week liked a post on Instagram linking the former AC Milan protegee with a move to Anfield. Naturally, Kerkez’s Instagram was bombarded with Liverpool fan comments.
“It’s not like I don’t see it (the comments),” he says. “When people say they don’t see stuff if someone says something about you, I think it’s a lie. It’s only if it hits you or not. “If someone says something bad, I do my job, and if someone says something good, I just do my job. That’s it.”
Kerkez is also a close friend of Dominik Szoboszlai and was originally brought to England by Liverpool director of football Richard Hughes, who was previously in charge at Bournemouth. The only issue in signing Kerkez is what that means for Robertson and his position as Liverpool’s first-choice left-back.
Speaking during the international break, the Scotland captain acknowledged the club could strengthen in that area but stated he is ready to fight for his place in the team.
“I think we’ve been linked with pretty much every left-back in the world. But listen, that comes with playing for one of the greatest clubs in the world. I look back on the eight years I’ve had at Liverpool and think I’ve been the starting left-back at the club. I feel a lot of pride about that. Eventually, your time comes. But I don’t think it’s my time yet. Even if we do bring someone else in, so be it. I’ll always back myself.
“Sure, this season there have been a couple of moments when I haven’t covered myself in glory. But some of the things have been blown way out of proportion.”
