As per recent reports, Liverpool’s summer signing Christian Benteke is now taking the help of a psychiatrist to help him adjust to life at one of the world’s biggest clubs in World Football. The 24-year-old superstar is under a lot of pressure to perform at Anfield, after making the £32m switch from Aston Villa in the recently concluded transfer window.
The Reds will be hoping that the 24-year-old superstar can deliver for them, as manager Brendan Rodgers’ struggled last season finding the right combination up front. The Belgian international has managed to score just a single goal for his new club and is at present taking the help of Michel Bruyninckx to grow strong mentally.
Talking to the Mirror recently, Bruyninckx said, When he was a boy in Belgium, he changed regularly from one club to another, because he only had one profile — as a physically strong player. I tried to encourage him then to expand his mind to see that he must not accept those labels and that he could continuously change his skills, and the way he learned to think has been enormously important to his career. I hear people say he is not a Liverpool type of player, but I tell you that he can adapt to any club. This challenge is not new for him. For many years, people tried to convince Christian he was only a physical player but, through his mental power, he has changed all that. When you watch him in the national team, you can see that, technically, he is skilled, he is creative, he is intelligent. I fully believe that, through Liverpool, he will go to a higher level again.
He further added, Step by step, he has understood that the modern game requires other things and his mental endurance and mental power has changed a lot. When I spoke with him, when he gave me the call, I said, ‘Listen, Christian, you have to work on it, and that will open your world. If you decide yourself, then you can go to anything’. One of his major points is that he has a broad mindset. He is open to learn every day of his life. We understand, more and more, that the capacity of the brain is remarkable and, once a player is aware how the game is played in the head, he can evolve continuously.