How Will Liverpool USE Federico Chiesa?

Liverpool Sign Chiesa for an £11M fee that came up out of nowhere this week was Federico kza who is now off to Liverpool for a fee that is supposedly about 11 million pounds something like that which is to my mind crazy value we were talking about him earlier in the in the window at the end of July I think and the rumored fee was 2025 that's been cut in half and of course Liverpool being the smart team that they are thought yeah we'll go and grab this guy what do you think about the fit uh of Kaza for Liverpool I think he's first of all I think he's ALS he just has one year left in his contract and yeah and I would say in terms of the price generally when the price is so low you wonder what the Low fee = high wages? wages look like because sure as a as a club as somebody running the club most of them generally look at what is cost per year so you amortize the transfer Plus what's the salary is going to be over the years so so usually they look at Players financially teams look at the squad in terms of how much this player cost me per year how much this player cost me per year if a player X is costing me 5 million per year all in when I if I'm not going to renew him usually what happens is I just bring in somebody in the same salary slot or same kind of cost slot so so so it could it's it's something that North American Sports are very are very used to doing because they always look at these slots one in one out two in two out type thing where oh how much room I'm creating on the cap or the salary salary budget and what players I'm bringing in so I I don't know obviously it could be that his salary is pretty high um so it might even out but still it's a good price I think the rumor was that um that Juventus were happy to shift him because supposedly he was on about 7 million a year something like that which I guess I guess that's what 140 140 a week something like that so for Liverpool that feels quite doable in a way that for Italy that's really up at the top of the range yeah for sure and also he was How does Chiesa fit? also being played in a system where his skills were not being really used well I think in Ju I mean he's a he's a he's a very technical right footed Winger playing on the left side cuts inside creates chances shoots can create his own shot but sometimes that's also a double-edged sword like he does take some kind of wild shots or like low quality but um he is a good dribbler and you know he he definitely I think fitwise if you you have to go back to fantina where he played a little differently I think um you mentioned it in the pre U before the show and so what that shows is that he can adapt to playing different roles I think last year he he even played a little bit of wing back which shows a couple things one being that he's quite adaptable to playing different roles to get on the field and number two is also someone that probably not that gets upset that he doesn't get to play in his favorite role so playing as a wing back being a being a Winger like that I think is it's not that difficult I think if you look at look at it but obviously players are different players look at it differently so I think I think for Liverpool he will to me he he walks into the to the group as the backup for Luis Diaz on the left side however his game is very different from Luis Diaz and so I think that gives Liverpool the opportunity to to have a a Adding variety to Chiesa's attack variety throw a different look uh at a different type of opposition let's say if they're playing somebody really a low block team and you don't have a lot of space to run in behind someone like him that's a really good dribbler can can open up take guys on One V one and create some angles and passes that that may be that may be one way to use him the other things also one one aspect of arner slot's management seems to be that he does make early Subs like he wants to Arne Slot's Substitution Philosophy use his full roster I don't know if you watched the game this past weekend he he took out Trend around 77th or 75th and Trent wasn't happy and you know and then they they shot to the the The Dugout area and where AR was slitting next to Trent and talking to him because Trent kind of was sulky when he walked off the field and just went and sat down in his spot anyway that's that's an aide but I think he does he looks like someone who wants to use the full depth of the squad so having another player that starting caliber that can come in and play Al beard slightly differently than than Lu Diaz I think that gives that gives a a lot of um lot of flexibility for for Liverpool and I think I completely agree with you I I think the best Kaza as Kim What is Chiesa's Best position? has said in the newsletter is the ker that's playing off the left that's coming inside and getting shots that is the Kaza we saw of that last season at Fiorentina is the Kaza we saw of the first season in Juventus and these were the seasons where his shot numbers were healthy and he put up really good expected goal numbers you pointed out that he's become more of an expected assist guy over the last few years which I think probably is a product of playing roles now I don't want him I I don't think the best way to maximize him is to put him on the right but if you do have a system where your right back is stepping into Midfield then your right winger kind of has to hold the width and that feels a bit weird when your right- Winger is Mo Salah because he can do it but it's not where he does the most damage well having would having kazer in that situation who does have experience of His fit on the wing playing as a wing back and maybe is a bit less bothered about getting his shots when he plays there would would that kind of make sense as as a fit in that situation he looks like a player that is adaptable that can play different roles and in a team like if he walks into a team like Liverpool from Juventus where he was being played a little bit out of position but he's now going to a higher profile team I think he will do everything to be on to get on the field and I think that what you pointed out being on the right side where Trent if Trent comes inside then him staying wide and holding the width I think that's another that's another thing that while it probably wasn't used as much at at U I think it could it could be a really good way to use him at Liverpool mhm mhm