Here is your Liverpool morning digest for Sunday, August 7.
Jurgen Klopp makes transfer admission after Thiago injury
Jurgen Klopp is adamant Liverpool will not “panic” in the transfer window after their injury concerns were deepened further.
Thiago Alcantara became the latest player on the sidelines after he limped off with a suspected hamstring injury shortly after half-time in the 2-2 Premier League draw at Fulham on Saturday.
The Spaniard, who clutched his left leg and underwent treatment before departing, will undergo scans to determine the extent of the damage .
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Liverpool were already without midfielders Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Curtis Jones and the ill Naby Keita, with goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher, full-backs Kostas Tsimikas and Calvin Ramsay, centre-back Ibrahima Konate and forward Diogo Jota also still absent.
But Klopp is adamant any transfer must “make sense” with more than three weeks remaining in the summer window.
“We actually have enough (midfielders),” said the Reds boss. "The problem is we are now punished for something that isn’t our responsibility. Things like this can happen.”
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Darwin Nunez hands fresh dilemma to Jurgen Klopp
Jurgen Klopp could barely believe what he was seeing, writes Ian Doyle.
Sat alone on a water cooler positioned by the Liverpool dugout, the Reds boss cut a forlorn figure as he watched his team flounder their way through their Premier League opener.
If Klopp wasn’t expecting an occasionally shocking performance, then his players certainly weren’t ready for the whirlwind whipped up by Marco Silva’s Fulham at a bouncing Craven Cottage.
Ragged, ramshackle and at times downright rubbish, the display perhaps cut to the heart of an inferred concern throughout the summer for Liverpool, hints of which weren’t difficult to spot. The shortened pre-season, particularly given the Reds’ hectic end to the previous campaign, hasn’t given Klopp his usual preparation time. And it showed.
Liverpool, of course, aren’t alone there, and there has always been a suspicion some teams will prove more undercooked than others, leading to some shock scorelines during the opening weeks. The Reds, then, did well to avoid one here, knocked out of their stride by a Fulham side revelling in their return to the top flight and, with a number of key absences, hardly in their finest shape themselves.
Aleksandar Mitrovic, who notched a record 43 times in the Championship last season, was a constant thorn, twice firing Fulham ahead and giving Virgil van Dijk a tough time all afternoon. The Dutchman knew he had been in a game.
That Liverpool escaped – and it was an escape – with at least some reward owed much to their resolve in notching two equalisers, and the changes made from the bench.
Klopp would have been forgiven for making all five substitutions at the interval, so poor were his team. Instead, he waited until injury to Thiago Alcantara and the ineffectiveness of Roberto Firmino forced his hand minutes into the second half.
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READ NEXT:
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- Jurgen Klopp post-match confession reveals why Liverpool plan failed at Fulham
- Former Man City defender refuses to change mind about title after Liverpool 'surprise'
