Liverpool supervisor Jurgen Klopp has confirmed Thiago Alcantara has sustained a recent damage however denied it’s one that may rule him out for the remainder of the season.
Thiago made his return from a long-standing hip downside late on within the Reds’ 3-1 loss at Premier League title rivals Arsenal on Sunday.
Nevertheless, regardless of solely enjoying a handful of minutes in his first look of the season, the midfielder managed to select up a brand new damage and is ready for an additional spell on the sidelines.
At a press convention forward of Saturday’s go to of Burnley, Klopp confirmed Thiago is heading again to the therapy desk.
“Thiago, clearly, will not be cool,” he started. “All the pieces appeared completely unbelievable in coaching. We confirmed various issues, I feel, on LFCTV so you possibly can see the coaching moments and it appears excellent so that you assume, ‘Come on, take him, we have now the chance, let him play a couple of minutes’ after which…
“It is a muscle situation, we do not know the extent but. We have now to attend there a little bit bit, but it surely’s not cool, in fact. It was actually not excellent news for him, for us, for everyone. On high of shedding the sport already and having that’s not good.”
When requested if he expects Thiago to play once more this season, Klopp replied: “Sure, however we did not actually take into consideration that, within the second we simply deal with the damage and get a full evaluation achieved and understanding precisely the place it got here from. It is not the depth and stuff like this, so there are various things.
“It is simply the conventional process and it will not be an enormous story if he would not have been out for that lengthy a time. That is how it’s. It is not an enormous, massive damage, positively not, but it surely’s clearly one thing no person wanted.”
Thiago’s Liverpool contract is ready to run out in the summertime, so a season-ending damage would have successfully ended his Anfield profession.
90min understands Saudi Professional League aspect Al Ettifaq, who’re managed by Liverpool legend Steven Gerrard, are weighing up strikes for Thiago in addition to defender Joel Matip, whose contract can also be up on the finish of the season.
