Bradley Barcola will be a relieved man after finally paying back some of his £123m transfer fee by scoring a Champions League hat-trick on Wednesday.

Concerns had been growing over Barcola and his lack of output after the Frenchman failed to do anything much across his first six appearances for Liverpool.

Barcola still needs to improve his English

Barcola has done some interviews since his arrival at Liverpool in August, but they have exclusively been delivered in French so far.

We have heard one or two words of English as he greets his fellow Reds, but it is clear that Barcola joined the club without speaking the language.

As The Athletic report, that was on display in the mixed zone at the Raiffeisen Arena, where the Frenchman is said to have walked through with the match ball stored in a Liverpool FC carrier bag.

“In English? No, sorry, it’s not good enough,” Barcola reportedly told journalists waiting to hear what he had to say after scoring his first Liverpool goals.

If he manages to keep this kind of form going, he won’t be able to hold them at bay for long, English or not. In the meantime, hopefully he can get the lessons in and, maybe with a little help from Hugo Ekitike, finally address his new fans in their native tongue.