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Two Liverpool teammates are on 'really good' terms. That's despite a complicated situation between the two of them.

Liverpool did something crazy this summer - they overhauled a title-winning squad. It’s something you essentially never see and for good reason.

After all, this was a squad that won the Premier League and won it comfortably. The players involved in that squad were the best in the country and that usually guarantees you a long career at a club.

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Liverpool, though, always intended on moving things around. They did next to no business in Arne Slot’s debut campaign, instead waiting for summer no.2.

The fact Slot won the title in that first season is miraculous, quite honestly. Now we get to see what he can do with a squad built for him.

But that does put certain players in strange positions. Some of them are no longer first-choice in the positions they played just last season - positions in which they delivered the title.

Instead, players who very much did not win the title have stepped in to replace them. It’s a strange environment but one that doesn’t appear to be having a negative effect.

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Milos Kerkez on Andy Robertson

One such situation is at left-back. Milos Kerkez has arrived from Bournemouth and immediately found himself as the first-choice left-back.

That's despite Andy Robertson remaining at the club and having delivered his second Premier League title last season. But Robertson has just one start to his name - the win over Atlético Madrid in the UEFA Champions League.

Kerkez, though, is adamant that the Scot has settled into his new role very well, and that their relationship is nothing but positive.

"The relationship is really good," Kerkez said, per the Liverpool Echo. "Before the game he motivated me, he told me: 'Go outside and do your thing that you were doing last season.'

"So he gave me a bit of a push. Then after the game he congratulated me and told me that I should keep going like that.

"We are good. He's a legend who did amazing things, won everything and still has quality. It's not like he's not here. He's a squad player. This is Liverpool, we're competing.

"He's pushing me, I'm pushing him and I think that's important to have in a big club like this."

It's the best you can hope for, really. Kerkez feels he's benefitting from having Robertson around and recognises that they're also competing for a spot.

And it promises to be an interesting story this season. Robertson has impressed in his minutes, while Kerkez has struggled a bit at times - but he also requires patience.

Slot has to manage the minutes carefully, then. Hopefully, that's routine given Liverpool are in four competitions. Plenty of time to go around for what should be two brilliant left-backs this season.