Dominik Szoboszlai has explained the motivation behind the impressive start to his Liverpool career as he revealed what he was told by Jurgen Klopp on his first day at Anfield.
Szoboszlai has been one of the standouts of the Reds' campaign since arriving from RB Leipzig for £60million in the summer
Szoboszlai has detailed the initial message taken on board from Klopp and why he wants to be involved in every game for Liverpool.
Szoboszlai
"He's quite a unique guy,"
"We had spoken before after some games when Salzburg and Leipzig played against Liverpool but not that closely.
"And now it was weird because it felt like we know each other already. So it was a good talk.
"On my first day he called me into his office and said, 'look, we know what kind of player you are, we know what you can do.
"You don't have to show it exactly from the first day because we know you just need to develop well in the team. So be free, do your things and it will come. But work hard because if you want to play, you have to work hard'.
"I listened to him. I felt that from the outside world it was like, okay, a Hungarian guy coming to the Premier League, he will not play, it's too big a step. But these things push me even harder. In my mind I was thinking: no, I'm going to show it.
"And from the first day I wanted to play all the games, want to play 90 minutes, to score goals, give assists, win trophies and do everything for the club. From the first day here, I've been trying to do that."
When asked what makes the Premier League different to other leagues, Szoboszlai said
"The intensity is crazy. You have to run a lot and not only a lot but fast. You have to defend too because you know that every time the opposition has a chance in this league, the quality is so high that they can score.
"The other thing is that everybody can win against everybody else, so there is no game that you are sure you can win. For example, already this season Newcastle defeated Aston Villa 5-1, Brighton beat Newcastle 3-1, then Aston Villa win 6-1 against Brighton.
"So you never know what might be happening and everybody can be there and surprise everybody else."
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