Liverpool Premier League winner plays for Robbie Keane's B team in first game for 11 months

Naby Keita's post-Liverpool vocation hasn't gone according to plan, with the midfielder hardly playing immoderate shot implicit the past 18 months, but he's hoping things change

Naby Keita is retired to rebuild his vocation successful Hungary aft struggling with Werder Bremen(Image: DeFodi Images via Getty Images)

Former Liverpool prima Naby Keita has been handed his latest vocation lifeline by different ex-Red, with Robbie Keane giving the midfielder minutes for his Ferencvaros B-team.

Keita near Liverpool for Werder Bremen successful the summertime of 2023 aft his Anfield declaration expired. He was hoping to rebuild his vocation successful Germany, wherever helium starred for RB Leipzig to gain his determination to Liverpool, but it didn't spell to plan.

Injuries restricted the Guinea planetary to conscionable 5 Bundesliga games successful his archetypal Werder season, and things would past get adjacent worse. He was exiled from the first-team and handed a important good aft refusing to committee the squad autobus for an away crippled successful 2024, and ne'er returned to enactment for the club.

Keita, present 30, joined Keane's Ferencvaros connected indebtedness successful January. After not playing a nine lucifer for immoderate 11 months, though, helium hasn't been thrust straight backmost into elder action.

According to club media, Keita impressed successful a 45-minute run-out against Tiszafured successful a affable - showing 'good movements, close passes and shot possession'. The lower-league side, who mislaid to Ferencvaros' first-team successful this season's home cup, were beaten 4-1.

Keane has included Keita successful his squad for the knockout signifier of the Europa League, with teams allowed to marque a fistful of mid-season changes. The Hungarians, who finished 17th successful the league phase, volition instrumentality connected Viktoria Plzen successful their play-off circular with the archetypal limb scheduled for Thursday.

Manager Keane is said to person watched the B squad crippled arsenic helium continues to formed his oculus implicit caller signing Keita, whose past enactment of immoderate benignant came for Guinea astatine the 2024 Olympics. The midfielder whitethorn person a portion to play successful the 2nd fractional of the season, with the reigning champions losing to Puskas Akademia past clip retired to driblet to 2nd spot beneath their opponents.

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Keita captained Guinea astatine the Olympics but hasn't played elder nine shot for adjacent to a year(Image: Stuart Franklin - FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images)

In an interrogation with The Guardian successful October, Keita insisted the information astir the Bremen autobus incidental would travel retired successful owed time. However, helium remained exiled with the German club's under-23 broadside earlier moving to Hungary.

“In my past twelvemonth astatine Liverpool, I didn’t play overmuch and erstwhile I arrived present [at Werder Bremen], I was motivated,” helium said. “We’ll person to speech astir the autobus incidental 1 day, but everyone who knows maine knows that I’m a nonrecreational and that I’m not undisciplined.

"Despite everything, I apologised to the radical adjacent earlier the extremity of past play due to the fact that we’re each quality and nobody’s perfect. Wherever I’ve been, from Salzburg to Leipzig to Liverpool, I’ve ever tried to beryllium exemplary.”

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