Jay Spearing believes that one present Liverpool participant has the potential to ‘go as excessive as he desires’ in his profession.
Arne Slot is already growing a knack for getting the perfect out of some members of his squad who’d beforehand confronted scrutiny at Anfield, amongst them Curtis Jones.
The 23-year-old has proven flashes of brilliance throughout his time within the Reds’ first group, however in latest weeks he’s appeared a extra polished and refined participant who could be able to establishing himself as an undisputed starter.
Spearing stuffed with reward for Jones
The midfielder produced an ‘glorious’ help for Luis Diaz’s first aim within the 4-0 win over Bayer Lerverkusen on Tuesday evening – within the phrases of Stephen Warnock on BBC Radio 5 Live – and Spearing waxed lyrical in regards to the efficiency from Liverpool’s quantity 17 after the match.
Talking on LFC TV, the Reds academy coach stated of Jones: “His all spherical play, he can play as a ten, he can see passes, he can end, rating targets, can play in a pair, as a defensive midfielder, he can break up play, get out of tight conditions, his passing with each toes is out of this world.
“So long as he can carry consistency with it, he’s going to trigger the supervisor issues, and he can go as excessive as he desires to go.”
Simply how excessive can Jones go at Liverpool?
Now into his fifth season as a fully-fledged first-team participant at Liverpool, Jones seems to be including a consistency to his recreation which can have beforehand been missing.
With the midfielder turning 24 in January, he’s at a degree in his profession the place we will not discuss by way of him being an ‘up-and-coming prospect’, but it surely’s to his credit score that he’s altering the narrative to being spoken about as a doubtlessly essential determine in Slot’s line-up.
The pinnacle coach has praised the academy graduate’s means to adapt effortlessly to a variety of various positions inside the group, and he seems to have discovered his area of interest as a quantity 10, even when it was from a deeper place that he delivered a man-of-the-match show towards Chelsea final month.
Jones’ pass to Diaz for the primary aim final evening was merely elegant, and if he can extrapolate his post-October worldwide break type throughout the remainder of the season, he might but fulfil Spearing’s prophecy about him having the innate expertise to ‘go as excessive as he desires’.
