Glen Johnson has warned that Liverpool may find it difficult to recruit new definers this month, as the club seeks to alleviate its current crisis of consecutive injuries. The Reds are expected not to have the regular headlines Virgil van Dijk and Joe Gomez until the end. end of the season after either player suffered long-term knee injuries prior to the campaign.
Jurgen Klopp has been forced to fill rounds with square pegs in the absence of the pair, with Jordan Henderson and Fabinho emerging as the first-choice central defense pair in recent months. Both players have been inspired since taking office, winning their last blank sheet against League leader Manchester United at Anfield on Sunday. Johnson, who has played twice for the Reds for six years with the club, believes Klopp wants to climb reinforcements this month, but said it could be tricky The ex-defender told Sky Sports that Liverpool might struggle to get hold of a quality defender, as the new recruit would probably return to the line once Van Dijk and Gomez were fit. “It’s a challenging question,” Johnson said, “Obviously, Hendo and Fabinho are fantastic players and have shown that they can do a task there in the middle of the middle.
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“The challenge is with Liverpool, if they set out to sign someone, anyone who walks through the door will know it will be third, fourth or maybe even fifth in 8 months. “So I don’t know which player in the sensibleest part of your game you’re going to want to do that. “Johnson went on, suggesting that Liverpool can gain advantages from the lending market to provide much-desired policy in central defence. “Maybe a loan, perhaps, maybe someone who knows it will only come until the end of the season,” he added. This is probably a more likely option, but do you want more bodies?Yes, definitely. “
Klopp has admitted in the past that he didn’t know if the club could hire a new defender this month. “We’ll see,” the charismatic German technician told reporters in November. “I don’t know what we can do, in January, I have no idea. We can look for answers from the outside, that’s for sure. But now, we have the scenario we have. “I don’t need to compare scenarios, but I arrived in Dortmund in 2008 and my two midfielders were 19 and 20 years old that winter, [Mats] Hummels and [Neven] Subotic, and we played with them most of the time.
“We have skill here. They are young, 18, 19, 23 years old, and we have more experienced players. ” Liverpool have been in a rush to recruit several central defenders in recent weeks. Kalidou Koulibaly and Dayot Upamecano are two long permanent ties, while a handful of young players, including Strasbourg’s Mohamed Simakan and Nikola Maksimovic, Napoli’s teammate in Koulibaly, have also discussed the Reds. just under two weeks.