Liverpool players are already impressed with new signing Wataru Endo after completing his move from Stuttgart.
Wataru Endo is making a real impact in the early days of his time at Liverpool with teammates suitably impressed.
That is according to Fabrizio Romano, who has been speaking about Endo on the Here We Go podcast.
Romano admitted that the news of Endo leaving Stuttgart to join Liverpool was possibly his favourite news of the summer.
Endo’s switch came out of absolutely nowhere, with Romano breaking the exclusive late on Wednesday night last week.
Romano has now admitted that he spoke to people around football in an attempt to learn more about Endo.
Those people told him that Endo is an ‘excellent’ signing for Liverpool and a really hard worker.
Romano also spoke to some of Endo’s former teammates, who believe that Liverpool fans will fall in love with him if he plays regularly.
The Italian adds that he is already hearing Liverpool players love Endo and that he has connected with his teammates immediately in training.
“It was probably my favourite news of the summer as a journalist, because it was completely out of nowhere,” said Romano. “When I started to call some people to ask them ‘is this player good?’, because I don’t know him so well, I’m not following Stuttgart on a regular basis, I don’t know him, I started to call some of my contacts in football and two or three people told me the same thing – he is an excellent addition, okay he is not a big name like Moises Caicedo but this is a very good player, a hard worker, a captain, a very serious guy who can really help Liverpool in terms of instant impact.”
“Also I can reveal for you that some players that had the opportunity to play with Endo in the past told me that Liverpool fans, if they will have this player on the pitch, they will fall in love with him.”
“I’m hearing already that, in the first training sessions, all the teammates are very happy; very nice guy, very well connected with all the people in the dressing room already,” he added.
Why Wataru Endo to Liverpool makes sense
Liverpool were now-famously going for Mosies Caicedo and Romeo Lavia before both picked moves to Chelsea instead.
The Reds had to pivot to other options in their quest to sign a new holding midfielder but nobody predicted a move for Endo.
The Japanese international is a completely different profile to Caicedo and Lavia, who were young players with huge potential and some Premier League experience behind them.
Endo was entirely different, coming in as a Bundesliga workhorse at the age of 30.
This ended up being framed as ‘Liverpool missed out on Caicedo and Lavia but ended up with Endo’.
We don’t quite see it that way and actually think Endo may have been signed even if Lavia arrived.
Liverpool lost major experience in Jordan Henderson, Fabinho and James Milner this summer.
Throwing teenager Lavia into taking those minutes would have been incredibly bold from Liverpool and he would have needed an experienced head in there to share the workload.
Endo is exactly that kind of player and if Liverpool can now add one younger midfielder, this move will look very smart.
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