Every player in Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool squad: Stay or sell?

RW Jordon Ibe: STAY

“Let’s sell our highly rated 20-year-old winger who can shoot with both feet and continues to improve!” -Nobody, ever.

It feels dumb to even include him in this. But, rules are rules, so he must be talked about as he’s in the first team. So let’s talk about what he does well and what he needs to improve on.

When Ibe is confident and in form, he’s an irresistible dribbler. He also is equally adept with both leg and plays with a calm aura, he doesn’t just get the ball and sprint forward like other young wingers. He at least *tries* to look for players to pick out in the final third, though when defenders close him down, he’s not very good at executing that task.

That last “what he does well” quickly turned south and led into one of the things he doesn’t do well: finding a final pass/shot. As with many young wingers, he hasn’t quite mastered the knowledge of when to shoot or when to cross. Especially when he’s off form and out of confidence, he gets very timid and indecisive in the final third, and either loses the ball or sheepishly rolls the ball back to his fullback, stalling the attack. For what it’s worth, that’s better than trying to dribble or cross when it’s not on, so at least there’s that.

Ibe will develop and hopefully he’ll hit the heights that Raheem Sterling was reaching at Liverpool before he slithered to Manchester City.

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