Joe Gomez out for a month

[sir roger]

I think he has all of the physical gifts you need to be a fantastic centre back including lightning speed when fully fit. He needs to improve on technical and tactical aspects and I am sure Jürgen is aware of that. In a market where great cb’s are like hens teeth and really ordinary cb’s like Maguire are talked of in the £40m bracket it would be crazy to give up on him at his age.

[VladimirIlyich]

Looks a big enough lad but his injuries are probably part of the too much too soon nature of being a talented young English footballer.

[magicrat]

Klavan's doing alright.

 

Yes but he a VVD cant play every minute of every game in the run in.  With Clyne back we dont need Gomez as RB cover, 

[Tony Moanero]

Probably needs to start eating more rhubarb.

[dockers_strike]

Does not inspire me with confidence to be good enough to play as a centre back in a team wanting to be challenging for honours. Too good to improve his game in the U23s but not good enough to dislodge Klavan as fourth choice in our defence.

[Jairzinho]

Probably needs to start eating more bourbons.

[Paulie Dangerously]

Confirmed on instagram his season, and world cup, is over after ankle surgery. 

[Baltar]

A shame for the lad. He's got wretched luck with injuries. 

[sir roger]

Our medical team not covering themselves in glory , how was he allowed to play 2 games after the English game injury ?  No wonder he was struggling.

[Chip Butty]

More bad news for the kid. Gutted.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/feb/01/jurgen-klopp-criticises-kyle-walker-for-mocking-liverpool-on-twitter

 

Weird, link doesn't reference the topic. Guess thats the Grauniad for you. 

 

 

[niallers]

https://www.thisisanfield.com/2019/02/liverpools-defensive-injury-issues-become-crisis-with-further-setbacks/

 

Lovren out now as well? Fuck sake. Now we're fucking cursed

[Numero Veinticinco]

For fuck sakes

[KMD7]

Terrible news

[Chip Butty]

2 minutes ago, KMD7 said:

Terrible news

News, knees, shins, ankles. He's got it all. 

[Captain Howdy]

Gomez’s injury record is a massive concern and Lovren is just made of quavers

[niallers]

I think we'll need to go relatively, if not properly big on another centre half this summer. Gomez is slipping into the Daniel Agger category of being brilliant yet constructed of glass and other brittle materials. 

It would also be nice of the club to tell us exactly what's wrong with our injured players. At least then we can not get our hopes up. Has Chamberlains actual injury been revealed? 

It's all just fucking frustrating as had we had Joe and Trent lately, I'm sure we'd be near ten points clear of city presently.

Wish our injures would just cunt the cunt off!

[Baltar]

We had all month to bring in some cover at the back and did nothing. If these defensive injuries cost us the title, questions will need to be asked about this "transfer committee". 

[magicrat]

Not surprised. Klopp was very cagey about injuries all through the window drip feeding bad news . Getting anyone decent in at CB in January would have been tough and we should know by now he would rather work with the squad than bring in journeymen that don't know the system. Hopefully Matip can stay in one piece until Lovren is patched up for a couple of games but the pair of them ain't going to get us through the season without Gomez coming back and that's in doubt now. Win on Monday and worry about the next game then I guess

[TheHowieLama]

NATHSANIEL CLYNE!!!!!

[an tha]

Knowing the extent of the problems at the back IMO makes our inactivity in the transfer window negligent.

[Strontium]

The new Ledley King.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Should I get my black armband out   Looking at some of the reactions here, I think the lad might be dead.

[VladimirIlyich]

4 hours ago, AngryofTuebrook said:

Should I get my black armband out   Looking at some of the reactions here, I think the lad might be dead.

No,that's our title hopes!

[TheDrowningMan]

As well as recalling Clyne (if possible), at this point it would be worth looking around for free agents to bolster the squad. Fabinho can play at CB if necessary but you’ve then removed arguably our best central midfielder; a clapped-out Yaya Toure would probably be more use to us in the latter stages of the season than some of the players we have.

[Guest]

6 hours ago, Baltar said:

We had all month to bring in some cover at the back and did nothing. If these defensive injuries cost us the title, questions will need to be asked about this "transfer committee". 

Correct, I have no sympathy whatsoever for the powers that be over this. It was obvious the defence was being stretched by the fact that we are playing midfielders there. Hopefully they will find a way of muddling through it but it's far from ideal that the team top of the League in February do not have a full defence.