Cody Gakpo delivers one-word verdicts on all 24 Liverpool teammates

Cody Gakpo has given his opinion on all 24 of his Liverpool teammates in a quickfire interview, including some interesting descriptions of some of the club’s top stars.

Gakpo has been with the club for just over a year now, having made the move from PSV Eindhoven back in January 2023. Since then, he has found himself in and out of the side, although is enjoying a spell in the team at the moment as we reach the end of the current season.

The 25-year-old will of course be looking to catch the eye of Arne Slot when he makes the expected move to Anfield to replace Jürgen Klopp this summer. Should the new manager want to get a quick measure of his new squad, he could go straight to Gakpo.

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During an interview with ESPN, Gakpo was asked to give one-word descriptions of each of his Liverpool teammates. Some of them are to be expected, although others are a little more surprising.

Gakpo didn’t quite stick to the one-word rule for all of his teammates, starting off with “Egyptian king” to describe Mohamed Salah. Virgil van Dijk was given “leader”, Luis Díaz “dribbling”, Dominik Szoboszlai “shooting”, Darwin Núñez “pace” and Alexis Mac Allister “intelligence”.

Others who will be happy with their descriptions include Adrián “father of the group”, Curtis Jones “top player”, Diogo Jota “Jogoal, because he always scores”, Joe Gomez “kindness himself”, Wataru Endō “maturity”, Ryan Gravenberch “quality” and Jarell Quansah “big shift”.

Gakpo took a slightly different approach for some of his other teammates. For Trent Alexander-Arnold, he took a deep breath before saying “that’s enough, he knows”. He dipped into some French for Ibrahima Konaté meanwhile, describing him as “mon frère” (my brother).

When asked about Thiago Alcântara, Gakpo said: “When I think about Thiago, I think about skills.” Alisson Becker was described as a “big brother in Christ, because he’s a religious person as well”, while left-backs Kostas Tsimikas and Andy Robertson were described as “crazy guy” and “very, very funny” respectively.

Other players were given somewhat intriguing descriptions. For Harvey Elliott, Gakpo laughed before saying “special kid”, while Stefan Bajčetić was described as “being late”. There seems to be a rivalry brewing as well, with Caoimhín Kelleher dubbed “darts”, while Conor Bradley’s description was “thinks he’s the best at darts”.

The most confusing description though was reserved for Joël Matip though. Summing up the defender, Gakpo simply said “shower” with no explanation.

Liverpool.com says: Who knows what that Matip description means. Some things are better left unsaid.

It’s good to see Gakpo seems to be getting on well with his teammates though. A lot of his descriptions seem pretty spot on as well, so Slot has a handy guide ready for when he arrives as the new manager.