Here is your Liverpool morning digest for Wednesday, January 25.
Mane suffers nasty injury scare
Liverpool forward Sadio Mane was involved in a major injury scare as he helped shoot Senegal into the quarter-finals of the Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon.
Mane suffered a sickening clash of heads with Cape Verde goalkeeper Vozinha as they challenged for a long ball shortly before the hour of their round of 16 game on Tuesday.
The Reds forward appeared to have been momentarily knocked unconscious before his head struck the turf heavily on landing, while Vozinha was left in obvious distress with concern immediately raised over his wellbeing.
The goalkeeper underwent lengthy treatment before insult was added to injury by being shown a red card when on the touchline to leave Cape Verde reduced to nine men after the first-half dismissal of Patrick Andrade.
Ian Doyle has the full story on the incident here.
And Mane later posted an update from hospital, thanking fans for the messages and saying he was "fine".
Liverpool new signing could become more influential
Last summer, it was the arrival of Ibrahima Konate that proved to be Liverpool’s most significant piece of transfer business.
The Frenchman arrived from RB Leipzig after the Reds paid his £36million release clause and was seen as the ideal recruit on the back of a turbulent campaign in which Liverpool were decimated by defensive injuries.
Despite impressive displays when featuring, the 22-year-old has had a steady start to like at Anfield so far. He didn’t make his first Premier League start until mid-September and has accumulated a total of just seven league appearances to date, with a further four coming in cup competitions.
It’s not unusual for Jurgen Klopp to take time to bed new recruits in. It took Fabinho for example until the end of October to regularly appear in the Liverpool starting 11 following his summer switch from Monaco back in 2018.
