Ronald Araujo has set his sights on winning trophies at Liverpool during his season-long loan from Barcelona, having made a strong start at Anfield.
The Uruguay international joined the Reds in August on a season-long loan, with Liverpool holding an option to buy the defender for £47m at the end of the campaign.
Araujo has impressed with a series of solid performances at right-back and has quickly become a fan favourite at Anfield due to his committed displays alongside Jeremy Jacquet and Virgil van Dijk at the back.
Player of the month and trophy ambitions
The 27-year-old was awarded the club's in-house player of the month for October, and having settled on Merseyside, he insists he is focused on adding more trophies to the club's cabinet before the end-of-season discussion on his future.
"My hunger and ambition is to win trophies," he told Liverpoolfc.com. "We have a great team and given the size of Liverpool as a club, it needs to be fighting for every trophy this season."
Prepared for the challenge
"It's been lovely but I also came here prepared for this challenge," Araujo added. "From the first moment the possibility was there for me to come to this huge club, I prepared myself to come here in the best of conditions so I could adapt to this club, to a new league with a completely different style."
"But I worked a great deal for this. Even during my first few weeks at the club, we worked really hard to be up to speed."
Araujo took a pay cut to move to Anfield in the summer, with the versatile defender keen for a fresh start after a difficult period at Camp Nou last term that included a short break from the game following struggles with his mental health.
Commitment to improvement
Araujo, who is currently with the Uruguay squad for the international break, added: "I'm grateful at the moment but I know there's still a lot more to come. Personally, I can't just stay in this moment – you need to keep working."
"That's one of my personality traits – to keep working, to keep giving my best, to continue to learn. I think I still have a lot to learn to continue to develop and there's a lot to come."
