Stefan Bajcetic will take a seat on Liverpool's team bus, open an app on his phone and be taken back to his summers in Serbia.
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It's been fascinating to me, as so often happens with players who are injured and out long term rehabbing, how quickly many have completely forgotten just how stupendously good this lad was prior to injury. Not only our best midfielder by a Country mile. But well arguably our best player period through that span.
For all the, to me anyway (no less when the proof is in the pudding as to how we are playing/ the ridiculous results we have got to start this season), proper mad zeal for a #6; those shouting the loudest on-line have seemingly forgotten just what a top talent we potentially have on our hands in Stefan. And I know he was also excelling as a more advanced 8 before his unfortunate injury, but given what we've added, and his natural, defensive upbringing, you feel our version of a playmaking, attacking 6 is what suits him best.
Superb to read he's learning off the very best of the best, and how they conduct themselves day in, day out, through his time away from the park. It can only add to his maturation and rounding him out as the complete footballer he looks destined to become.
Another massive tick as to the work everyone at Kirkby is doing in developing some serious talent across that board that is fixing to save us serious money going forward. Having that from a self-sufficient academy conveyer belt, as we are currently reaping the rewards from, only adds to more funds to get the very best of the best in the market as and when needed.