'He totally looks different!' – Ex-Liverpool star Gary McAllister hails Reds youngster for physical transformation as new season looms

Ex-Liverpool star Gary McAllister has praised the physical transformation of Conor Bradley going into the new season.

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• Bradley star during Liverpool preseason
• Gary McAllister praises transformation
• Bradley talks about physical progress

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  WHAT HAPPENED?

  Bradley is set for his second season with Liverpool after having risen up through the youth ranks of the Merseyside club. The 21-year-old has admittedly grown a lot physically ahead of Arne Slot's debut season at Anfield as was obvious during his appearances in all three of Liverpool's pre-season friendlies. McAllister has also commented on the same and claimed how impressed he is with Bradley.

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  WHAT MCALLISTER SAID

  Speaking on The Official Liverpool FC Podcast, the former Liverpool man said: "We spoke to him at the training, visually he just totally looks different. He’s still marauding forward but he’s grown into his body, he’s filling out and looking strong and quick.”

• THE BIGGER PICTURE

  Speaking to Liverpool's club media at the start of the Reds' preseason United States tour, Bradley himself addressed his physical development as he said: "I think naturally you get bigger as you get older but I try to work on it as well. In the off-season, I was in the gym just doing as much as I could while always recovering as well. I feel bigger, I feel stronger, I feel fitter.

  "For me this pre-season, I just want to stay injury-free. I just want to make sure I'm as fit as I can [be] going into the season and make sure I've got no injuries, because obviously last year I think I only got two weeks of pre-season and obviously got the injury.

  "My main focus is to just stay injury-free, get myself fit and get myself ready for the season."

• WHAT NEXT FOR BRADLEY?

  The 21-year-old started in all three friendlies for Slot, however, with Trent Alexander-Arnold likely to return soon, it is unlikely that Bradley will be able to start in Liverpool's Premier League opener against Ipswich Town on August 18.