Alexander Isak’s luckless debut season at Liverpool encountered another unwanted wrinkle as he was ruled out of Sunday’s derby against Manchester United with a groin problem which Arne Slot wrote off as a “really small” injury.
The most expensive transfer in Premier League history has never recovered from a summer spent on strike to force through the move to Liverpool. It turns out that kicking balls into empty nets at Real Sociedad’s training ground as opposed to an organized preseason with Newcastle United doesn’t provide the best basis for a campaign of Premier League action.
