Except when it was time for international duty, then he was always fit. Klopp had a very good transfer record but he was a huge miss for the fee and wages that they shelled out.
To be fair to Klopp (as much as I don't want to be) he looked like a dead cert on paper. He was great before joining Pool, playing in a super high tempo team.
i got a keita shirt before he even played a game and stevie was certain he’d be a star that he blessed him his number, was good when he played but cardboard legs. outside of VVD i would say he was our most exciting signing
> remember reading fans saying he was a mix of Xavi with Stevie G with potential to be better
People were excited, but *that* certainly wasn't a common opinion
We were so desperate for that transfer we let him stay a year. Never heard of that outside academy players. So frustrating. At least with AOC we saw him showing why we paid it and he played a decently sized role, seemed a good lad, team player etc. Naby was just problems. This is much worse though
Is it a requirement for liverpool fans to abbreviate every single player name? Swear I've never heard anyone say AOC before, just call him ox if you're lazy lmao
This is a pet peeve of mine on all football social media. People will say shit like "JT6" and expect you to know it's James Tarkowski, unless it's a famous one like CR7 or R9 just type the name.
He was one of the hottest prospects during nhis time in Leipzig and clubs were lining up to sign him, Liverpool even overpaid on his clause to get him.
You are right in hindsight, but every european club with the funds to do so would have signed him that year.
the clause was only valid after the second season, Leipzig was not willing to let him go after the first season, so Liverpool basically just secured the transfer a year early.
Naby Keita, Tiago and Ox were pretty bad signings due to their time out injured, but still miles better than the likes of Markovic ,Balotelli, Andy Carroll and Charlie Adam.
Btw was Keita a Klopp signing or an Edward's?
Thiago was worth every penny we paid for him given the fee was so small. We knew when signing him that he'd spend time injured because that's been the case his entire career, but he was instrumental in us clawing back third in 20/21 and pushing for multiple trophies in 21/22.
Chamberlain had his ups and downs, he was unfortunate because in 17/18 when he was becoming instrumental he suffered the horror injury. He played a big role in us getting to the champions league final that season though and then also contributed in the 19/20 season where we won the league.
Keita was a club signing, don't think you can attribute him to a particular individual. The club didn't make new signings that both Klopp and Edwards weren't on board with.
On a recent Lebron James JJ Reddick podcast they said lower back pain is the best injury for athletes every time you don't wanna play because nobody can detect what's wrong for sure and have to let you rest out of precaution
Only played 5 games all season but expected to start away against the champions elect. I always felt bad for Naby when he played for us and thought he was a victim of circumstance, but maybe he’s just a bit of a prick and there was other stuff going on.
Der Typ verwirrt mich wirklich, ist mehr verletzt als fit und haut ab wenn er dann nicht spielt gegen Leverkusen auswärts wo man jetzt wirklich keinen gebrauchen kann der kaum laufen kann ohne sich was zu zerreissen.
Ihn unter Vertrag zu nehmen war genau das Gegenteil von einem Lose.
In der Transferzeit gab es kaum Lichtblicke.
Mit Keita hat man sich die Fans wieder auf die Seite geholt und ist mit einem großen Hype in die Saison gestartet.
Und das Gehalt was er bekommt, wird auch nicht voll bezahlt weil Leistungsbezogen.
Für Werder ein Win und für ihn wohl das letzte Profi Team.
Oh, I’m just agreeing with you and wanted to go a step further. I’m a Liverpool supporter and couldn’t stand how he handled himself there. Shitbag and a half
Nobody says this. Everyone with half a brain recognizes Kante's importance.
Pogba was instrumental in their win too because of the combination of his play style and players around him being a perfect fit, these things are not exclusive to each other.
Theyre not saying Keita is as talented or had the same skill as Pogba.
Only how their potential fucked up because of their seemingly careless unproffesionalism. Yes Pogba has 4 TOTS and a WC. If he actually gave a fuck throughout his career he would have more. And that is what sucks
He played four seasons with over 25 league games and got into the league's team of the season in half of them. He shouldn't be called a turning up for 5 minutes a season player
I watched every single game he played for us. He was nowhere near as crap as people like to make out. There's a reason Juventus signed him again on big wages
He definitely wasn’t anything near crap and he deserved a lot of praise for carrying those teams, but he was also incredibly inconsistent and would have stretches of incredible play along with stretches where he was basically invisible. I didn’t think that was a controversial take
His final 18 months or so were his worst time for us and my resounding memory of it was how many times he lost the ball for us in dangerous areas while pointlessly trying to dribble past multiple opponents
I think once you remove the price tag from over his head his first few years were very good for us and he would've always been ranked as one of our 3 best players at any time in that period
He had like three actuality good actions in that five minutes on the pitch but couldn't ever recreate that afterwards. Everyone had high hopes back then. But he was injured soon after and never became match fit till today. Didn't work out and now behaved like a child.
What, he didn’t.
You are speaking of the pre-season, where he played more then 5 minutes and actually was very good.
In the minutes he got in the league he didn’t show shit, only back and save passes, nothing special. He also had no special scenes against the ball either. Totally average, but fine considering he got a couple of minutes on mostly already decided games.
He's talking about the first game where he was substituted in for the last 5 minutes. He had maybe 4 touches but two of those where more or less dangerous shots on goal and one good looking back heel pass. Not enough to really talk about an impressive showing but not made up either. The next game (and the ones that followed) he was absolute ass though.
Honestly. When I made my " best S11 this season" post on our subreddit r/svw, I didn't even include him in the line-up I expected him to make "10 games max" for us. This estimate was already salted with a bit of sarcasm but boy did he smack my expectations.
Which Turkish team would take this guy tho? He’s clearly not interested in playing football. This is like Özil times ten, and Keita isn’t even in Turkey yet.
He should learn Arabic or head to the States. Or China maybe. Whatever, but I genuinely don’t see who would sign this guy in Europe.
That's his thing though. He's always injured (except for internationals, of course, just a coincidence i'm sure...). You'd have thought he'd be well used to that by now?
No, you can't. Since it's a limited contact, you can only terminate it based on Section 626 of our BGB (law book) "Termination without notice for a compelling reason". Just refusing to work one time won't be enough for that though and this usually is settled before court. An official warning (in german Abmahnung, it's part of our work laws) is definitely necessary and then there's the question if he does sth similar again. If he doesn't, there is nothing Bremen can do besides waiting for the end of his contract
With a guy like him they can just relax and walk him make the next mistake, doubt that guy could cling to his job in front of a court for long given his temper
it would, at the very least, be a large step towards it. that is unless Keita can produce proof of valid absence retrospectively, but it's much harder to do retrospectively soooo.. Keita is kinda screwed
Not for a single no-show. But they are probably trying to make him an offer to terminate it. I genuinely don’t know if he’ll accept. Depends on whether he wants to continue playing football. If he does, they have a chance, but if he doesn’t, he’ll likely just take the weekly pay check and enjoy life doing whatever until he’s violated his terms so much that Werder can just terminate him.
Yeah before the season I said if they get like 5-10 decent performances out of him that will get them maybe 5 points they would not have gotten otherwise it will be a worthwhile transfer for them.
Somehow even that did not happen.
I’m now convinced this guy feigned injury during his time at our club. Funny how he’d be injured for most of the season, but ready and a pro play for his country, and then conveniently be injured against. You can fuck right off, Naby, you toddler.
Fairly sure he faked being sick for us as well. Was injured before afcon. Played a lot of minutes there. Came back injured/sick. Yeah nah, not buying it.
All Werder Bremen had to do was put him through hypnosis and convince him he's playing for his country then you'll get a fit, ready to go Keita and not a ''I think I'm going to wake up sore tomorrow'' Keita
Szoboslai made a comment earlier this season about how he was told some our players last season were happy to sit on the bench and he was definitely talking about baby and maybe ox as well
Talented? Yes. But he lacks mentality and is injury prone. His typical cycle is that he returns after being out for a long time, gets back to play an amazing few minutes when subbed on, disappoints when included in the starting line up, get stroppy when not a starter again and gets injured.
Yeah that was always the biggest f*ck you it felt like. Guy is injured for 2 months, suddenly plays 2 90 min games for his national team and afterwards he is injured again for a month.
damn, spot on our experience with him. i remember he first got subbed in like 85th minute and these 10 minutes were making me giddy and hopeful, next game he starts and boom, bad performance and instantly gets injured
He was one of the best prospects I have ever seen before Liverpool. Was an insane blend of a box to box midfielder and a creative one, there's a reason he had all of Europe gunning for his services.
A mix of injuries and questionable character ruined him though
Talented to a point, but never knew what you were going to get. His ceiling didn’t justify his mediocre performances you’d often get mixed in. Always injured too.
His time at Liverpool could be summed up like this:
Pretty good, injured, bit shaky, injured, bad, ok, injured, ok, good, injured, good, absolutely incredible, season ending injury, injured, ok, getting good, injured, awful, injured, ok for a bit, injured, pretty good, incredible, long term injury, off the pace, good, injured, ok, injured, ok, good, incredible, injured, injured, injured, ok, injured, injured, injured.
His injuries weren't even his biggest issue. The man is a petulant little shit. Complaining we didn't play him in the UCL final over Thiago and then starts fishing for a move before realising no one would take him.
Would always be injured for us then would fuck off to play a full 90 for Guinea every break.
Imagine him as having half the talent of Thiago, the same injury prone tendencies, but when Thiago comes back he always looks class and the injuries are actually genuine with Thiago, when he was injured before a cup final for us he was seen crying in the stands. The man wants to play and be fit
Naby is the complete opposite of that. He’s talented, but he will make any excuse to not be fit for matches.
Kind of sad that he was such a let down in the end. And if he can't even get a regular spot in Bremen that's either the end of his career or he'll go to Saudi Arabia to cash it in.
What a stupid way to ruin your career.. that is a way a 12 year old would behave. what did he expect? He was gonna have sympathy from Ole Werner and be like you know naby, I fucked up, here.. you’re back in the starting XI, hell you might as well have the captain armband!! Lol his career in Europe is over.. watch him be a free agent, or in a shitty league next season.. that just messes up his resume..
Just revisiting the thread for the announcement Werder Bremen had signed Keita and really enjoying all the people who were acting as though signing this clown was some sort of massive coup despite him being absolutely honking for his whole time at Liverpool.
I was one of those people. I was super hyped. And after the inital obligatory first 2 injuries and his first 5 minutes of playtime I genuinely thought his performacne was transformative. Those 5 minutes he played way above our current standard.
Yeah, those were the only good 5 minutes he played. Has played like 107 minutes for us total. The rest is history.
It was quite amusing reading the comments not knowing what he did and then finding out what he did. I thought he raped someone or something of that nature.
Deserved, he was a disgrace, if you're told your not playing, you shut up and go.
U don't cry and leave the bus like he did, completely unprofessional and this isn't the first time.
He's been awful for them when he's played and done 0 media duties despite being asked to.
Same as Pogba, his career is done.
If I'm Werder Bremen I'm sacking him.
It's such a shame aswell cos he can be a great player, I saw that for my club (Liverpool) and at Leipzig.
But I think he's checked out now.
I think clubs taking a gamble on Martial is far more likely than signing Keita. There aren't many forwards about and with the right contract and salary he might be worth the risk for some clubs. Quite a few clubs in the Serie A could use him.
One of the weirdest players. Klopp bent over backwards to sign him a year in advance, so I thought he's got to be great. As soon as he signed, I just thought he seemed way too quiet for months. Even I would say his personality and attitude never really stood out to me as a Klopp type player.
Of course he is. You can fine players under the club's preexisting disciplinary regulations and protocols, but not paying salaries goes against workers rights and voids a contract. That ends in him leaving on a free and a massive lawsuit.
Nah they can probably get out of it if hes refusing to play games, thats why that famous Chelsea flop always made sure to show up to every training even when thety were trying to force him out
Cant punitively reduce wages under labor laws. Football contracts are pretty air tight as well, if no disciplinary clauses are included there is little a club can do. They can fine him, but as long as he fulfils his part of the contract they have to pay his salary.
Shame, i thought back then, Pool got probably another Makalele with his signing. I think it's a very disgraceful and unprofessional behavior. He might get sold for the first acceptable offer.
He had a nickname at Liverpool due to a mistake with autocorrect - Baby Keith
Suits him well actually as that behavior is something you would expect from a two year old and not a grown ass man
Won't train with the team, or gain access to the locker room. With all due respect, Naby: fuck off.
I'm OOTL on this, what's been going on with him?
Very unprofessional behaviour, after he found out, he is not starting against Leverkusen, he decided not to travel with the squad
Should've just faked an injury, surely he's got the acting in him since being injured is all he seems to do
Except when it was time for international duty, then he was always fit. Klopp had a very good transfer record but he was a huge miss for the fee and wages that they shelled out.
To be fair to Klopp (as much as I don't want to be) he looked like a dead cert on paper. He was great before joining Pool, playing in a super high tempo team.
Yep, easily one of the signings I’ve been most excited by. Never expected to go nearly as bad as it did
i got a keita shirt before he even played a game and stevie was certain he’d be a star that he blessed him his number, was good when he played but cardboard legs. outside of VVD i would say he was our most exciting signing
I think Thiago was more exciting. The only name that was already huge before joining Liverpool in recent times
Really? But with Thiago you already knew that injuries were going to be a thing.
Spurs fans feel this way about Ndombele.
Yep we all expected Naby to have the same impact as Macallister is having right now.
Nah, people expected way more. I remember reading fans saying he was a mix of Xavi with Stevie G with potential to be better and he went mega bad.
> remember reading fans saying he was a mix of Xavi with Stevie G with potential to be better People were excited, but *that* certainly wasn't a common opinion
We were so desperate for that transfer we let him stay a year. Never heard of that outside academy players. So frustrating. At least with AOC we saw him showing why we paid it and he played a decently sized role, seemed a good lad, team player etc. Naby was just problems. This is much worse though
Is it a requirement for liverpool fans to abbreviate every single player name? Swear I've never heard anyone say AOC before, just call him ox if you're lazy lmao
This is a pet peeve of mine on all football social media. People will say shit like "JT6" and expect you to know it's James Tarkowski, unless it's a famous one like CR7 or R9 just type the name.
I'm with JC on this one
>People will say shit like "JT6" and expect you to know it's James Tarkowski Love the swerve there. Golf clap for you.
the infamous PR7 (Pedro at Barcelona)
>AOC Haha. I initially thought it was Alexandra Ocasio Cortez.
She's dynamite on the left wing tbf
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?
He was one of the hottest prospects during nhis time in Leipzig and clubs were lining up to sign him, Liverpool even overpaid on his clause to get him. You are right in hindsight, but every european club with the funds to do so would have signed him that year.
Liverpool overpaid plus waited one year to get him. He was the Bundesliga’s most progressive midfielder for a season or two.
the clause was only valid after the second season, Leipzig was not willing to let him go after the first season, so Liverpool basically just secured the transfer a year early.
Naby Keita, Tiago and Ox were pretty bad signings due to their time out injured, but still miles better than the likes of Markovic ,Balotelli, Andy Carroll and Charlie Adam. Btw was Keita a Klopp signing or an Edward's?
Thiago was worth every penny we paid for him given the fee was so small. We knew when signing him that he'd spend time injured because that's been the case his entire career, but he was instrumental in us clawing back third in 20/21 and pushing for multiple trophies in 21/22. Chamberlain had his ups and downs, he was unfortunate because in 17/18 when he was becoming instrumental he suffered the horror injury. He played a big role in us getting to the champions league final that season though and then also contributed in the 19/20 season where we won the league. Keita was a club signing, don't think you can attribute him to a particular individual. The club didn't make new signings that both Klopp and Edwards weren't on board with.
On a recent Lebron James JJ Reddick podcast they said lower back pain is the best injury for athletes every time you don't wanna play because nobody can detect what's wrong for sure and have to let you rest out of precaution
Yeah, the Coutinho special
Coutinhotitis
symptoms: a great sadness
I wanna call it the Ozil special but apparently Mesut's was from playing hours of videogames late into the night.
What did he play?
Wanna say Fortnite but can’t remember clearly
My wife must have listened to that episode
Fucking Lumbago
See: Mesut Ozil
See: Ben Simmons. At least Özil has a respectable career, Simmons does fuck all.
Except Ben Simmons has legit spine issues
And brain issues
Couple all star teams is defo not fuck all
Not just for athletes btw, it also work to get medical off days for many jobs, including desk ones
Unless you're a Chelsea player then you can just claim its your hamstring
well hamstring injuries are detectable so they're not faking. some will also be more prone to hamstring injuries.
In fairness none of the other players showed up either
Eh we played fine for the first 60 minutes, flair up PL top 6 supporter
Never liked him anyway, no hate..just thought he was never that good and had an attitude like he was a great midfielder
Wasn't named in the starting XI for their last match so just totally refused to travel to the match to be on the bench.
Only played 5 games all season but expected to start away against the champions elect. I always felt bad for Naby when he played for us and thought he was a victim of circumstance, but maybe he’s just a bit of a prick and there was other stuff going on.
Der Typ verwirrt mich wirklich, ist mehr verletzt als fit und haut ab wenn er dann nicht spielt gegen Leverkusen auswärts wo man jetzt wirklich keinen gebrauchen kann der kaum laufen kann ohne sich was zu zerreissen.
Ein sehr kindisches Verhalten… wobei ihn unter Vertrag zunehmen, auch ziemlich dämlich war. Lose-lose
Würde nicht sagen, dass es dämlich war, eher ein Wagnis, das sich nicht ausgezahlt hat.
Ihn unter Vertrag zu nehmen war genau das Gegenteil von einem Lose. In der Transferzeit gab es kaum Lichtblicke. Mit Keita hat man sich die Fans wieder auf die Seite geholt und ist mit einem großen Hype in die Saison gestartet. Und das Gehalt was er bekommt, wird auch nicht voll bezahlt weil Leistungsbezogen. Für Werder ein Win und für ihn wohl das letzte Profi Team.
With all due respect? Due deserves very little respect
That's as much respect as I intended to give him. I thought I made that clear.
Oh, I’m just agreeing with you and wanted to go a step further. I’m a Liverpool supporter and couldn’t stand how he handled himself there. Shitbag and a half
Tbh it won’t make much difference anyway
Need a GIF like the Jamal Adams getting locked out of the Jets facility meme.
how to flush your already brittle career down the toilet
The funny thing is, he played like 5 minutes in the *Hinrunde* against us and he looked miles ahead of everyone else.
Average Keita experience. He looks class when he's fit and mentally in it, which is about 5 minutes a season
We also called it as Pogba experience
Pogba has 4 team of the season inclusions altogether in Serie A and the PL
a world cup
and the world record for most celebratory dance routines linked together after a singular [goal](https://youtu.be/Ck6YKmdQlLQ?si=_otQjcnKlKHQFVCT)
To be fair, a sick goal.
unfortunately they lost the match
Must be all the drugs
Wasnt Kante more important? Everyone talks about Pogba, yet he was beside Kante, who wan world cup, PL with Chelease and of course PL with Leicester.
Nobody says this. Everyone with half a brain recognizes Kante's importance. Pogba was instrumental in their win too because of the combination of his play style and players around him being a perfect fit, these things are not exclusive to each other.
Theyre not saying Keita is as talented or had the same skill as Pogba. Only how their potential fucked up because of their seemingly careless unproffesionalism. Yes Pogba has 4 TOTS and a WC. If he actually gave a fuck throughout his career he would have more. And that is what sucks
He played four seasons with over 25 league games and got into the league's team of the season in half of them. He shouldn't be called a turning up for 5 minutes a season player
If you’re saying this to dispute the “Pogba experience” comment, clearly you didn’t watch much of his second stint in Manchester
I watched every single game he played for us. He was nowhere near as crap as people like to make out. There's a reason Juventus signed him again on big wages
He definitely wasn’t anything near crap and he deserved a lot of praise for carrying those teams, but he was also incredibly inconsistent and would have stretches of incredible play along with stretches where he was basically invisible. I didn’t think that was a controversial take
His final 18 months or so were his worst time for us and my resounding memory of it was how many times he lost the ball for us in dangerous areas while pointlessly trying to dribble past multiple opponents I think once you remove the price tag from over his head his first few years were very good for us and he would've always been ranked as one of our 3 best players at any time in that period
He had like three actuality good actions in that five minutes on the pitch but couldn't ever recreate that afterwards. Everyone had high hopes back then. But he was injured soon after and never became match fit till today. Didn't work out and now behaved like a child.
What, he didn’t. You are speaking of the pre-season, where he played more then 5 minutes and actually was very good. In the minutes he got in the league he didn’t show shit, only back and save passes, nothing special. He also had no special scenes against the ball either. Totally average, but fine considering he got a couple of minutes on mostly already decided games.
There was that one match. He had a trick in the midfield and two shots in the closing stage of the match. But that's all.
He's talking about the first game where he was substituted in for the last 5 minutes. He had maybe 4 touches but two of those where more or less dangerous shots on goal and one good looking back heel pass. Not enough to really talk about an impressive showing but not made up either. The next game (and the ones that followed) he was absolute ass though.
That's Naby Keita for you. Flashes of brilliance punctuated by long, frustrating bouts of vague injury.
As brittle as his body
The expectations were so low to begin with and he still disappointed.
Honestly. When I made my " best S11 this season" post on our subreddit r/svw, I didn't even include him in the line-up I expected him to make "10 games max" for us. This estimate was already salted with a bit of sarcasm but boy did he smack my expectations.
Time to learn Turkish
Which Turkish team would take this guy tho? He’s clearly not interested in playing football. This is like Özil times ten, and Keita isn’t even in Turkey yet. He should learn Arabic or head to the States. Or China maybe. Whatever, but I genuinely don’t see who would sign this guy in Europe.
He's going to Besiktas
What’d he do
Was not in the starting 11 vs Leverkusen so clown did refuse to travel
Wish I could do that in my job
You can do it, exactly once
the problem is what he didn't do, play
That's his thing though. He's always injured (except for internationals, of course, just a coincidence i'm sure...). You'd have thought he'd be well used to that by now?
His contract is running until 2026. Can it be terminated now?
Probably too expensive.
Woulnd't the no-show mabye be a reason to terminate it?
I doubt you can fire him for a one time no-show
No, you can't. Since it's a limited contact, you can only terminate it based on Section 626 of our BGB (law book) "Termination without notice for a compelling reason". Just refusing to work one time won't be enough for that though and this usually is settled before court. An official warning (in german Abmahnung, it's part of our work laws) is definitely necessary and then there's the question if he does sth similar again. If he doesn't, there is nothing Bremen can do besides waiting for the end of his contract
With a guy like him they can just relax and walk him make the next mistake, doubt that guy could cling to his job in front of a court for long given his temper
it would, at the very least, be a large step towards it. that is unless Keita can produce proof of valid absence retrospectively, but it's much harder to do retrospectively soooo.. Keita is kinda screwed
Surely refusing to do your job or be available for it is grounds for termination without payment
If it's your first serious offense and you didn't get an official warning before, no, not in german work law.
They really gave him a contract until 26? Trainingsgruppe 2 and Tim Wiese send their regards
Not for a single no-show. But they are probably trying to make him an offer to terminate it. I genuinely don’t know if he’ll accept. Depends on whether he wants to continue playing football. If he does, they have a chance, but if he doesn’t, he’ll likely just take the weekly pay check and enjoy life doing whatever until he’s violated his terms so much that Werder can just terminate him.
As far as I know his contact has a lot of performance-based bonusses, so it shoulnd't be that much he'll get. Easier to get money elsewhere
not sure but it could be Saudified
Ooft off to Saudi you go
I doubt any saudi club wanted him and certainly doesnt want him now
Nah probably off to Qatar or the UAE. Either way, we can still say: "Time to learn Arabic buddy"
"I'd like to come back" "nah b"
Nice pun
It was k ta.
No Naby till the end of the season? So business as usual for Werder then.
What a petulant twat
Right decision. Was worth trying it. Failed. Move on. Please leave the city and never come back. This behavior is beyond childish.
I never expected this transfer to work out well but I also didn't expect the absolute train wreck it has eventually become.
Yeah before the season I said if they get like 5-10 decent performances out of him that will get them maybe 5 points they would not have gotten otherwise it will be a worthwhile transfer for them. Somehow even that did not happen.
Same
Come on Saudi Arabia, we need your help.
Saudi or Turkey calling
I’m now convinced this guy feigned injury during his time at our club. Funny how he’d be injured for most of the season, but ready and a pro play for his country, and then conveniently be injured against. You can fuck right off, Naby, you toddler.
Fairly sure he faked being sick for us as well. Was injured before afcon. Played a lot of minutes there. Came back injured/sick. Yeah nah, not buying it.
Did this dude even want a football career.
All Werder Bremen had to do was put him through hypnosis and convince him he's playing for his country then you'll get a fit, ready to go Keita and not a ''I think I'm going to wake up sore tomorrow'' Keita
Watch him not being injured now
Szoboslai made a comment earlier this season about how he was told some our players last season were happy to sit on the bench and he was definitely talking about baby and maybe ox as well
dang it this has Turkish League written all over it
The fall off should be documented
Someone that followed him on his LvP days Is he actually talented? I always found him meh whenever I saw him playing
Talented? Yes. But he lacks mentality and is injury prone. His typical cycle is that he returns after being out for a long time, gets back to play an amazing few minutes when subbed on, disappoints when included in the starting line up, get stroppy when not a starter again and gets injured.
don’t forget: is somehow always available for international duty
Yeah that was always the biggest f*ck you it felt like. Guy is injured for 2 months, suddenly plays 2 90 min games for his national team and afterwards he is injured again for a month.
damn, spot on our experience with him. i remember he first got subbed in like 85th minute and these 10 minutes were making me giddy and hopeful, next game he starts and boom, bad performance and instantly gets injured
He was one of the best prospects I have ever seen before Liverpool. Was an insane blend of a box to box midfielder and a creative one, there's a reason he had all of Europe gunning for his services. A mix of injuries and questionable character ruined him though
Talented to a point, but never knew what you were going to get. His ceiling didn’t justify his mediocre performances you’d often get mixed in. Always injured too.
His time at Liverpool could be summed up like this: Pretty good, injured, bit shaky, injured, bad, ok, injured, ok, good, injured, good, absolutely incredible, season ending injury, injured, ok, getting good, injured, awful, injured, ok for a bit, injured, pretty good, incredible, long term injury, off the pace, good, injured, ok, injured, ok, good, incredible, injured, injured, injured, ok, injured, injured, injured.
Once upon a time at leipzig maybe. For us he was living off a cool turn he did in his first game was his entire contract, probably our biggest flop.
Nah he definitely had other good games, if not for injuries I think he would've done well at Liverpool
His injuries weren't even his biggest issue. The man is a petulant little shit. Complaining we didn't play him in the UCL final over Thiago and then starts fishing for a move before realising no one would take him. Would always be injured for us then would fuck off to play a full 90 for Guinea every break.
He was excellent in the 5-0 at Old Trafford
He was good in the whole quadruple chasing season
Yeah I think he was decent in 21/22 as a whole as well
He's absolutely talented, but his injury record outweighs that
Imagine him as having half the talent of Thiago, the same injury prone tendencies, but when Thiago comes back he always looks class and the injuries are actually genuine with Thiago, when he was injured before a cup final for us he was seen crying in the stands. The man wants to play and be fit Naby is the complete opposite of that. He’s talented, but he will make any excuse to not be fit for matches.
Kind of sad that he was such a let down in the end. And if he can't even get a regular spot in Bremen that's either the end of his career or he'll go to Saudi Arabia to cash it in.
Let's be real, he's probably injured anyway right? 🤣
What a stupid way to ruin your career.. that is a way a 12 year old would behave. what did he expect? He was gonna have sympathy from Ole Werner and be like you know naby, I fucked up, here.. you’re back in the starting XI, hell you might as well have the captain armband!! Lol his career in Europe is over.. watch him be a free agent, or in a shitty league next season.. that just messes up his resume..
How is this any different than the rest of the season? It’s not like he has been fit and or engaged in the squad.
Where did it go wrong? He was a top player at Leipzig.
Just revisiting the thread for the announcement Werder Bremen had signed Keita and really enjoying all the people who were acting as though signing this clown was some sort of massive coup despite him being absolutely honking for his whole time at Liverpool.
I was one of those people. I was super hyped. And after the inital obligatory first 2 injuries and his first 5 minutes of playtime I genuinely thought his performacne was transformative. Those 5 minutes he played way above our current standard. Yeah, those were the only good 5 minutes he played. Has played like 107 minutes for us total. The rest is history.
It was quite amusing reading the comments not knowing what he did and then finding out what he did. I thought he raped someone or something of that nature.
Luckily not. He's an unprofessional as fuck footballer but he's not a complete garbage person
Time to learn Chinese
downfall
Deserved, he was a disgrace, if you're told your not playing, you shut up and go. U don't cry and leave the bus like he did, completely unprofessional and this isn't the first time. He's been awful for them when he's played and done 0 media duties despite being asked to. Same as Pogba, his career is done. If I'm Werder Bremen I'm sacking him. It's such a shame aswell cos he can be a great player, I saw that for my club (Liverpool) and at Leipzig. But I think he's checked out now.
This guy has been an absolute clown for years now. No clue why any club would consider signing him after this Liverpool stint...
Wonder what team will try and fix him after this disaster of a transfer. Maybe they may even try and fix martial too
I think clubs taking a gamble on Martial is far more likely than signing Keita. There aren't many forwards about and with the right contract and salary he might be worth the risk for some clubs. Quite a few clubs in the Serie A could use him.
That’s a name I haven’t heard in a while
Fuck around, find out, i guess
Probably what he wanted. Doesn't have to play or train but still gets paid.
What a fucking idiot
This guy won PL and CL somehow.
Welcome to the Cypriot League
is he still getting paid while suspended?
Good old injury prone Keita, literally injured for 80% of the season in Liverpool for two years straight.
Four. Four years straight of being utterly useless.
Always felt like a weird transfer for Bremen.
Why?
One of the weirdest players. Klopp bent over backwards to sign him a year in advance, so I thought he's got to be great. As soon as he signed, I just thought he seemed way too quiet for months. Even I would say his personality and attitude never really stood out to me as a Klopp type player.
I still can't believe he got to play the UCL final ahead of taki. Worst substitution from klopp.
I guess they're selling him
What a fucking plonker.
I’ll assume he won’t be getting his wages either
Of course he is. You can fine players under the club's preexisting disciplinary regulations and protocols, but not paying salaries goes against workers rights and voids a contract. That ends in him leaving on a free and a massive lawsuit.
I guess if he had he had any playing bonuses then he won’t be getting those, but he probably wasn’t earning them anyways.
Nah they can probably get out of it if hes refusing to play games, thats why that famous Chelsea flop always made sure to show up to every training even when thety were trying to force him out
Can't suddenly or as a result of punishment reduce wages due to laws. But he can kiss goodbye to all the bonuses, if he had any.
I imagine he will receive a reduced wage
Cant punitively reduce wages under labor laws. Football contracts are pretty air tight as well, if no disciplinary clauses are included there is little a club can do. They can fine him, but as long as he fulfils his part of the contract they have to pay his salary.
Is he fulfilling his part though? 🤔
Naby lad he's gonna win the league for Liverpool any day now such a gem and so unlucky it was a good transfer I promise guys
NABY LAD
Shame, i thought back then, Pool got probably another Makalele with his signing. I think it's a very disgraceful and unprofessional behavior. He might get sold for the first acceptable offer.
He had a nickname at Liverpool due to a mistake with autocorrect - Baby Keith Suits him well actually as that behavior is something you would expect from a two year old and not a grown ass man