16/08/2025
🗣 Brendan Rodgers on Arne Engels: "There's obviously negativity around Arne and some of these guys, but for a manager, we've put a really good player in, we took a really good player out. And then I can change it and it's great for the squad. So his attitude is great. He tired a little bit, so he had a little bit of looseness towards the last five, 10 minutes, but his quality from his set piece and his general work rate and intensity was great.
"So he's a boy that gives everything. And there's a lot on his shoulders as an expensive player. But we bought potential. The club has bought potential many times. And a lot of them aren't here. This is a guy who has potential but it cost a little bit more. And you have to pay that little bit more because if you're going to be sat away in Bayern Munich and watching the team play and he has that athleticism, then that's what you need because it costs you money. But he's nowhere near the finished article.
"We've just had to pay more for potential. You can buy potential at a million quid and two million quid. And a lot of the time, it doesn't work. Sometimes it does. I will tell you a lot of the time it doesn't. But him, we've had to pay a little bit more to get the athleticism, to get the physicality that this team needed. And now I've got great options in there. Guys that are physical but guys that are technical. So I don't complain."
(𝑃ℎ𝑜𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑦 𝐶𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑔 𝑊𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑚𝑠𝑜𝑛 / 𝑆𝑁𝑆 𝐺𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑝)