Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp said on Friday he was reluctant to plunge into the transfer market to solve his “four-week” injury problems. Reds centre-back Ibrahima Konate suffered a knee injury in Sunday’s friendly against Strasbourg, which Klopp said will be watched out for “for a while”.
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Konate joins a list of sidelined Liverpool players that already includes Costas Simikas, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Diogo Jota Curtis Jones and reserve goalkeeper Kaoimahin Kelleher, after Nabi Keita nearly a week with the disease. Training is set to resume on Friday.
However, none of the absentees is understood to have suffered from long-term injuries.
Liverpool have made three major pre-season signings in Darwin Nez, with Benfica for £63m ($77m), Fulham teenager Fabio Carvalho (£5m) and Aberdeen defender Calvin Ramsey (£6.5m) also arriving at Anfield.
“We have too many injuries, it’s true,” Klopp said on the eve of Liverpool’s Premier League opener away from Fulham on Friday.
“But at the moment nothing has changed (in terms of new signings). Too many ominous conditions. Starting with Caoim and Diogo, one was largely injured and one was re-injured.
“In a few weeks they’ll be back, but they’ve missed the pre-season and that’s not good. In a challenge in the game against Ibo Strasbourg, what happened there we’ll have to see how long it will take but that’s a little while. is out for.
But the German boss, who saw his side out, was denied a historic quadruple last season, when Manchester City overtook them in the Premier League and Real Madrid beat Liverpool 1-0 in the Champions League final. Was cautious about re-entering the transfer market.
“We can’t solve a problem for four weeks with a transfer for a whole year,” he said. “It doesn’t mean anything to us at the moment.
“The transfer window is still open and we will see but the plan is not to go in that direction.”
‘Inhabited Nunez’
One positive news for Liverpool on the fitness front is that goalkeeper Alisson Baker will be available to face Fulham at the Tour of the Far East after missing most of the pre-season due to an abdominal injury.
Nunez could also play against Coutures after scoring as a second-half substitute in last weekend’s FA Community Shield win over Manchester City.
“Darwin is ready, but does that mean he has to start over? I don’t know,” Klopp said.
“We have different options and that’s what we’ll use and Darwin needs time to get used to a lot of things.”
Klopp said: “He is completely settled. He himself said that he was very nervous in the beginning and I sympathize with that, this is normal.
“But he settled down very quickly because of all the players, not just Spanish speakers, and it was very helpful and he feels at home after a short period of time.
“He had a real impact in the first final we could have played but the work wouldn’t stop and he’s in the best place.”
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