Liverpool: Szoboszlai apes Bruno Fernandes in unacceptable reaction to teammate’s role vs Fenerbahce

After lugging Liverpool through a host of video games last period, Dominik Szoboszlai was rewarded through a vast brand name-newfangled arrangement and also the vice captaincy. But doubts over both his kind and also leadership this term actually peaked on Wednesday evening in a mirror of unsavory and also uncorroborated petulance.

Liverpool wear’t have a satisfied current history of handing out bumper brand name-newfangled transactions.

Mohammed Salah left midway through a 2-year arrangement in the summer season season after by far his worst period in a Liverpool shirt.

Ryan Gravenberch owns been transformed in Andoni Iraola’s introducing XI by academy graduate Trey Nyoni after signing a brand name-newfangled offer in March through to 2032.

And Szoboszlai is in zero way warranting his brand name-newfangled £320,000 per week after penning fresh terms on a 5-year offer in July.

Alexis Mac Allister’s resurgence to kind after he disclosed he was “actually mournful” not to be available a brand name-newfangled arrangement in the summer season season argues Liverpool could have been genius to hold those Szoboszlai and also Gravenberch transactions earlier.

Certainly no one would say Szoboszlai didn’t deserve a compensation aggravation after his displays last period – albeit not quite such an spectacular bump from £120,000 per week.

He was secret to them certifying for the Victors League and also obtained 13 objectives and also 11 assists in unanimously rivals regardless of investing a reasonable portion of the time filling in at right-earlier, dragging them through video games to forgo few in hesitation that he should be the next off Liverpool captain after Virgil van Dijk.

He could still be the next off Liverpool captain, yet presently more by default in a squad bereft of leaders, as a player who’s always owned a poorly high standpoint of himself is presently confiscating make every physical effort at colleagues he plainly stipulates to be shoddy colleagues.

Arrogance which saw Szoboszlai stick his chest out and also filch video games by the scruff of the neck last period presently verifies up itself as arm-waving and also pouting in complete vista of his boss, the rest of the staff and also the adherents.

We distrust those of a Reds elbowed rested tailing at abode could have owned a parallel feedback upon seeing Kostas Tsimikas running over to filch a corner against Fenerbahce, yet dissimilar Szoboszlai, they weren’t in the procedure of transferring the innumerable inaccurate crosses (17) by any player in a Victors League gallery in the last 2 periods.

Liverpool correspondent David Lynch was cautiously not impressed by the Hungarian’s capability complete amount.

Lynch said on Anfield Index’s Media Dilemmas podcast: “A hellish evening. He was just poorly, poorly inadequate.

“He’s not great at blossoming the ball from much deeper placements. He’s kind of had a gruel time in that variable a miniscule snippet as soon as he’s been presented there.

“And he was disastrous. There’s just zero 2 ways of chatting around it, actually.

“In terms of leading the press, zero help whatsoever, zero tackles administered.”

Lynch incorporated: “Yeah, just couldn’t invade the gallery or brunt it.

“He just owned to tote out much better than that. And I just assume that you cannot render a shell to ranked him in the staff at the minute.”

Also as a measly 20% cross honesty and also zero tackles, Szoboszlai also administered zero interceptions, zero ball recoveries and also dropped short to win a singular headway or troposphere-borne battle.

He’s not presently honest of a place in the staff let one by one be termed captain, and also the armband will most certainly undeniably be passed to an option after Van Dijk if Szoboszlai lingers to ape Bruno Fernandes.

🚨: Szoboszlai’s feedback to Tsimikas confiscating a corner last evening 🫣 #LFC https://t.co/Q0UFRjEtDK

— James Wathland (@JamesWathland) November 5, 2026

After spotting Tsimikas was around to filch what he plainly perceived to be his corner kick to hit the initially male, Szoboszlai tossed his head and also arms in the troposphere, swivelled in the instruction of the church bench and also advised to his chest assistance a pre-schooler imploring an educator to resurgence a plaything being messed around by a usurper earlier to its rightful owner.

Is that the mentality of the next off Liverpool captain? The succession is zero much longer legible.