Reported Liverpool target Karim Adeyemi would have few problems adapting to life in the Premier League with the Red Bull Salzburg striker capable of speaking ‘perfect English’, his former coach Marc Unterberger told Goal and Spox.
Taking their tally to a remarkable 41 goals in just 13 games during Sunday’s thumping win at Old Trafford – an average of over three per match – you would be forgiven for assuming that the last thing Liverpool need right now is another free-scoring front man.
But while Sadio Mane, Roberto Firmino and the irrepressible Mo Salah have begun the new campaign like a runaway bullet train, all three will be 30 by the time next summer rolls around.
No one – not even the very best – can defy Father Time forever, although Zlatan Ibrahimovic may have something to say about that.
And a Liverpool side who snapped up Diogo Jota from Wolves last year are slowly, brick-by-brick, putting the pieces in place to construct a new dynasty on those already rock solid foundations.
Is Karim Adeyemi on his way to Liverpool?
Adeyemi, 19 years of age but already a prolific goal-scorer at senior level, would certainly be ‘one for the future’ but also a player capable of contributing in the here and now.
The former Bayern Munich youngster has found the net 14 times in 18 games this season at a club who gave us Erling Haaland and Patson Daka – two of those coming in the Champions League group-stages.
Liverpool are interested, according to BILD, and his former coach at SpVgg Unterhaching believes Adeyemi would have few problems adapting to life on Merseyside.
“The only important language is football. And Karim knows a thing or two about that,” said Unterberger.
“Of course, it’s always nicer and maybe easier to talk to your coach or staff in your mother tongue.
“But English would not be a problem for Karim either: his father comes from Nigeria, his mother is Romanian, and both speak perfect English.”
Manni Schwabl, Adeyemi’s mentor and the Unterhaching present, believes that the youngest goal-scorer for the German national team since Mario Gotze in 2011 is destined to play in England eventually – even if he thinks the Bundesliga would represent a stable stepping stone.
“In the long term, Karim is absolutely predestined for the Premier League,” Schwabl added.
“I don’t know whether the time is right now. That’s why I feel (he will join) a top club in Germany.”
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