Gilberto Mora Would Be PERFECT for Liverpool! 🇲🇽

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Dan (0:31)

There's a lot of hype, excitement, buzz around players like Gilberto Mora. There have been some down the years, I remember way back when, Freddie you do, was that so many years. But it feels like from what you're saying, that this is more than that. This is more than just hype. This is potentially an elite prospect that we're discussing.

Herculez Gomez (0:50)

I don't want to get ahead of myself and be unfair to Gilberto Mora, but oftentimes you see kids be thrown into this type of atmosphere, Dan, and they don't react well. The head blows up, they start believing their own hype, they start reading the papers, reading social media, they start doing things they're not supposed to. Their atmosphere around them isn't the best. They come from a certain family setting where maybe the structure isn't the right way, and they don't have the support that is necessary to deal with said pressure. I've played with his father. His father, Gilberto Mora Senior, was a professional player that played for a very long time. Modest in his play, but stuck around for a very long time.

Very good family man, he comes from a good structure. Nothing in or around his family setting would lead me to believe that'll get the best of him. I go back to how I see him on the field. He's not flashy. He's super simple in the way he plays.

It's like watching a player that knows that a bicycle, a step over, shirt moves are effective, but the most effective is passing, receiving, A to B, being clean with the ball, and he's got a good work rate about him. Oftentimes these players do not. They think they've made a certain name for themselves and they can get away with cutting these corners. He's got that work rate about him. The mentality is there.

I do not know how special he will be. I don't Dan, but I know that I'm willing to take the chance on the kid to believe in the kid because of what I've seen already and where he comes from.

Dan (2:27)

Yeah, the sample size isn't big enough for you to make any firm sort of assessment of those fingers, the way he could become, because not only is it small and he's very young and there's still so much that can happen in a young player's journey, in a young player's career, but he needs to make that step, which we'll touch on in just a moment in terms of what that might look like and how that might sort of pan out. But from what you're saying, it sounds like he's got a lot of good in his favor in terms of the attribute, clearly all there, the mentality, the maturity that you've already touched upon as well, a lot of strength. You've already mentioned something he might need to develop and work on as well in terms of potential weakness, in terms of end product. In terms of his profile, you mentioned yesterday a lot of what he does compares to him profile wise. Where do you see his best position? Because this season alone, I've seen him utilized as a more attacking midfielder, more of a tenner, more creative area. He's played out wide, second striker. What do you see him as?

Herculez Gomez (3:21)

If we're talking in Liverpool terms, he'd be a Floridian Virts. He'd be a guy that's pulling the strings from anywhere in the field. He'll give you more of a work rate. He'll give you more of a direct play.

He's still very much growing into his body. I liken him and his situation to Lameen Yamal. How you still haven't figured out your body and there comes a risk of injury with it because you don't know when to push it, you don't know when to back off, you don't know when to feel like it'll be okay to keep pushing. So he has some issues like Lameen has had in the past, which I think is normal for any young footballer discovering their own body.