Joel Matip

[sir roger]

1 hour ago, clangers said:

Giving some of the most well known perma-crocks a run now, Darren Anderton etc.

Older posters might remember Everton buying a much vaunted lad from Wrexham , David Smallman, in the mid-70s for £100k who became a byword for being injured. Just checked and he played 21 times in 5 years and was offloaded to Oswestry Town !!

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

2 minutes ago, sir roger said:

Older posters might remember Everton buying a much vaunted lad from Wrexham , David Smallman, in the mid-70s for £100k who became a byword for being injured. Just checked and he played 21 times in 5 years and was offloaded to Oswestry Town !!

Small man Syndrome he had.

[Chairman Meow]

5 hours ago, TheAllMy-TyReds said:

Superb defender, he's actually 1 of the best CB's in the league yet never gets mentioned by any of the so called "top" pundits in the game.

Because none of them have ever seen him play. 

[YNWAViking]

He really bossed it last night. Sad he seems to break down every time he's back. Getting those Lallana vibes. 

[magicrat]

He’s up there with Virg for reading the game and timing tackles. Such a shame 

[Curly]

Yeah, he’s class, but ultimately pointless

[Strontium]

7 hours ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

Did he just go in at half time and his body went SURPRISE MOTHERFUCKER 

 

Live footage of him going into the team dressing room:

 

[John102]

I seen sky gave him a 5 and said he was shake in the first half. 

 

At odds with the forum view. I missed most of first half. 

 

 

[Ronnie Whelan]

8 hours ago, Joey8FrogsLegs said:

Has there ever been a better player in the sicknote category? Most players drop fastly in performance level when they enter the sicknote or permacrock category.

 

For us I’d say Aurelio was similar to Matip. Every time he played it was obvious he was a good player, and you knew he’d get injured again probably before the next game.

 

Others imo like Sturridge, Lallana, Ox and even Agger clearly dropped to lower levels due to all the injuries. I’m a massive fan of Hansen as a player, but even if he was good at the end of his time here he was never the same player after all the injuries.

I definitely can't think of a better Liverpool player that is so injury prone. I mean for me when he plays he is one of the best defenders in the world.

 

At times when I've watched him, I've nearly thought that he was on Virgil's level, which is about the highest compliment I could give him.

 

It's a genuine shame because he seems like a good lad as well. 

[Captain Howdy]

2 hours ago, Ronnie Whelan said:

I definitely can't think of a better Liverpool player that is so injury prone. I mean for me when he plays he is one of the best defenders in the world.

 

At times when I've watched him, I've nearly thought that he was on Virgil's level, which is about the highest compliment I could give him.

 

It's a genuine shame because he seems like a good lad as well. 

Aurelio was a real talent

[Crazy Dave]

This would be all be much easier to take if Joel wasn't a bonafide world class centre back. 

[Ronnie Whelan]

14 minutes ago, Captain Howdy said:

Aurelio was a real talent

Yeah he was a lovely player.

 

[VladimirIlyich]

13 hours ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

Did he just go in at half time and his body went SURPRISE MOTHERFUCKER 

 

How did he even make it professionally. How did he get enough time to practice to be good  i reckon as a toddler his dad said kick the ball which he did but then clutched his hamstring and gave it the substitute hand gesture. If mechanics took all those broken parts they replace in cars and made a car it would be called a Matip.

Matip must be owned by Audi. He has a VW engine with Skoda bodywork.

[Captain Turdseye]

It has to be the final straw this time. He needs replacing. He’ll see out his contract because nobody will buy him but any games he plays in the future should just be seen as a bonus. He should be seen as the fifth choice CB, meaning we need to buy two more players. 

[Harry Squatter]

16 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

Matip must be owned by Audi. He has a VW engine with Skoda bodywork.

Skodas are quite reliable these days. 

 

More like he has an Orient Express engine and a Merseyrail body.

[VladimirIlyich]

27 minutes ago, Doctor Troy said:

Skodas are quite reliable these days. 

 

More like he has an Orient Express engine and a Merseyrail body.

They are designed by Czechoslovakian Interior Decorators.

[Closer To God]

33 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

They are designed by Czechoslovakian Interior Decorators.

 

[sir roger]

11 hours ago, Captain Turdseye said:

It has to be the final straw this time. He needs replacing. He’ll see out his contract because nobody will buy him but any games he plays in the future should just be seen as a bonus. He should be seen as the fifth choice CB, meaning we need to buy two more players. 

This rubbish about his injury not being as severe is a joke , when he returns is moot as he will get injured immediately anyway.

[Barrington Womble]

4 minutes ago, sir roger said:

This rubbish about his injury not being as severe is a joke , when he returns is moot as he will get injured immediately anyway.

This is was my argument last week. Even if he'd come back and stayed fit for the rest of the season (which he wouldn't), he would still mis 1/3 or more of our games as he can't play twice in a week. Anybody looking at our squad depth wouldn't count matip as any viable option. 95 games in almost 5 years and his injuries are getting more often. 

[an tha]

Has there been any update after Klopp saying on Friday we'd know more that afternoon?

[Barrington Womble]

From what I was told earlier, he might play again this season, but it's unlikely. 

[Allan]

Out for the rest of the season.

 

Just confirmed on the offal.

 

Jürgen Klopp has confirmed Joel Matip is set to miss the remainder of the 2020-21 season due to an ankle ligament injury.

 

The defender sustained the issue in a challenge to thwart Tottenham Hotspur’s Son Heung-min during the first half of Liverpool’s 3-1 win in London last Thursday.

 

Further diagnosis of the problem has revealed Matip will be unable to play any further part in the Reds’ campaign.

 

The champions are already without fellow centre-backs Joe Gomez and Virgil van Dijk due to long-term injuries; however, Klopp’s defensive options have been bolstered by the deadline-day arrivals of Ben Davies and Ozan Kabak.

 

Detailing Matip’s setback, the manager told Liverpoolfc.com: “Unfortunately, we found out now after everybody looked at it that Joel will be out for the rest of the season.

 

“But he will be ready for the start of the next pre-season and finally everything will be sorted.”

 

Praising the No.32’s efforts to play through injuries and sacrifice his own fitness on behalf of the team, Klopp added: “In the end, we have to admit that he probably did that.

 

“The situation is just, the season started and Joel was injured when the season started, unfortunately. We should not forget that at Schalke when he was there he played pretty much all the time completely through, he never had something.

 

“Then he was unlucky with a Koulibaly challenge against Napoli in the last second, in the Everton game kind of things, a little bit with the foot here and there. If something started and then the situation is like our situation – that nobody can really wait because of our situation with Virgil out and Joe out – we always had to try to find the first moment when he is able to play again.

 

“It was really unlucky because it was a brilliant challenge he made actually, he saved our life in that moment in the Tottenham game when he won the challenge against Son.

 

“But he injured his ankle and played the game on and now is out for the season, so you can imagine how much he tried to stay on the pitch and tried to help us.

 

“We will wait for him. He has now the rest of this season, then the summer, then the pre-season to get ready again and he will be ready again.”

[YNWAViking]

Matip out for the rest of the season. A hattrick of long term CB injuries now. What a shit show. No wonder we signed two CBs today.  

[Lee909]

He has to go, really can't justify the squad place and wages. Really good player but he just can't cope with the demands

[Freddo]

Does anyone think that's him done here. Klopp talking like it's not and it begs the question what fee we could get for him. What rotten luck. Three centre backs crocked. That's incredible.