Jeremie Frimpong is a different kind of player to Conor Bradley. He is even more attacking than Bradley is, and we have tended to see Frimpong play more as a wing-back.
Arne Slot has clearly seen something in him he feels can fit into the system that he wants to play at Liverpool, so I have got no doubts in it whatsoever from the recruitment aspect.
He is a different profile, but also, neither he nor Bradley is Trent Alexander-Arnold. But the fact is, with Liverpool’s style of play, at some point you are going to need to adapt anyway. If you continue doing things the same way, then you get left behind at times.
The fact that these two players will be there in that position gives the manager two different options. It is good to have competition for places as it will bring out the best of them.
They are two young players as well. If they are in their late 20s or early 30s, you are not really going to get much change out of them, but now they have got the chance to continue to develop as players, push each other and push Liverpool to be really good on that side.
Best of all, for at least the next two years, they will get to work on that side of the pitch with Mohamed Salah too.
It will be interesting to see how these two complement Salah, while in the long term knowing that this is the new look compared with what the team have got very used to in times gone by.
Nedum Onuoha was speaking to BBC Sport’s Nicola Pearson
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