Arthur Melo has dropped a subtle hint that he won’t be starting for Liverpool against Southampton this afternoon.
A transfer deadline day loan signing last summer, the Brazilian was last in the matchday squad for the 3-0 win away at Leicester City earlier this month, but a 13-minute substitute appearance against Napoli back in September remains his only appearance in a Liverpool shirt.
This afternoon’s trip to Southampton is the final opportunity for Melo to make his Premier League debut ahead of returning to Juventus at the end of the season. However, taking to Instagram on Sunday afternoon, the midfielder appeared to suggest he won’t be starting.
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“Never complain, just thank for all that God has given me,” he wrote on the social media site.
Speaking on Friday morning, Reds boss Jurgen Klopp revealed he planned to make changes for this afternoon’s game at St Mary's.
He said: “We have to make sure that I find a line-up with good legs, a lot of desire. And we have to see.
“We will not take any risks with players, let me say it like this, that makes now no sense. But we have a big group together and the training week looked really good, the boys bought really into it, that was cool.
“But I didn’t make any kind of decisions because it’s now pretty early and I didn’t see the doc yet. I will have a brief conversation with him and then we will see who is in contention, and when we have that then I have to make sure we find players who are really in all departments ready for the game.
“I think it makes sense that we make changes, to be honest, just to get fresh legs on the pitch. And players who want to show something, besides the fact that we anyway want to win the game, that’s clear.”
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