Liverpool new signing confirms he's doing everything to become better

Liverpool had a lot of player turnover last summer.

This has resulted in a start to the season that has ebbed and flowed. Performances have not quite hit the ground running and Arne Slot hasn't really figured out his best line-up yet.

Right now pretty much all of the club's new signings are settling in. That's without the exception of Hugo Ekitike, who seems to have fit Liverpool like a glove.

But the rest have not covered themselves in glory. Florian Wirtz has struggled. Alexander Isak has not been able to find his goal-scoring shoes.

Jeremie Frimpong has looked bright but he can barely fight himself into the reckoning.

Giovanni Leoni looked promising. However, he suffered a serious injury.

Milos Kerkez is again one of the best young full-backs in world football right now. However, he's not quite adjusted to a new role that has been asked of him under Slot.

This is natural. These things often take time. Building a new team was never going to be easy. Even a manager as successful as Slot was going to encounter challenges.

One player who has gone under the radar out of the new summer arrivals is Armin Pecsi. The Hungarian was always going to be a signing for the future rather than the now.

He's spending most of his time training with the first-team. However, he's playing for the U21s on matchdays and here he has had a bit of a reality check.

Liverpool's U21 side is not the strongest. They currently 23rd out of 29 teams in the Premier League 2 having lost four of their first six games of the season.

Pecsi has played most of those games and he has been tested to the maximum in those matches, which have ensured that he's had a bit of a difficult and challenging start to life in England.

But as a goalkeeper that is probably ideal for his development and now speaking to Index in Hungary he has opened up about his experiences at Anfield so far.

“It’s a matter of approach. I knew when I started that this period would be about building," Pecsi said.

"That it would require patience and that there would be more mentally demanding moments. We considered that too. We knew that at Liverpool, in the reserve team, the emphasis is not necessarily on efficiency, but rather on having the right environment and springboard for those young people whose upbringing and development the club leaders think about at a project level.

"I am surrounded by people who see that this is not a sprint race, you have to run a marathon as smartly as possible, and that the three months I have left behind are the first few steps of everything. I have also faced the questions of why this was good for me, why I chose this path. However, those who see my everyday life, help me, are by my side, and support me to the fullest, for which I cannot be grateful enough.”

Being a boyhood Liverpool fan, Pecsi also spoke about his experience of playing at Anfield and spending time around the first-team.

“It’s special to hear the fans’ anthem from the sidelines," Pecsi said.

"I often think about how much I looked forward to going to Liverpool as a spectator at least once as a teenager, and how big it seemed when it came together at the age of 18. The feeling when I first heard You’ll Never Walk Alone is still the same.

"But the interesting thing is that when I step onto the pitch, whether it was during warm-ups or the match against Bilbao, I don’t have any idea where the hell I am. My brain switches on by itself and I can focus on the goal regardless of everything. After a match, it’s different again, I realise how good it felt to be there, to go onto the pitch. I really get things like that that make all the effort worthwhile. I feel: yes, that’s why you have to work, to do everything every day on the road, because you need more from this experience – that’s for sure.”

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