Liverpool youngster Billy Koumetio will return to Anfield after missing educational sessions at loan club USL Dunkirk.
The defender joined the Ligue 2 side in the summer transfer window of the season, although he had a combined era in France. Koumetio made nine appearances in total, all of them starts.
But he also spent a lot of time away from the team without getting injured. The defender was completely left out of the squad in the Coupe de France third-round win over USP Saint-Omer last week.
He is also unlikely to appear among Ligue 2 fighters when they return to league action against Grenoble on Saturday. In fact, the defender missed the recent educational sessions at Dunkirk.
According to La Voix Du Nord, Koumetio has not been with the French national team lately and “no longer participates” in training. Lately there is no explanation for his absence, there is speculation that he will return to Anfield.
The Reds are facing an injury crisis defensively, with Trent Alexander-Arnold, Joel Matip, Andy Robertson and Kostas Tsimikas all sidelined lately. Koumetio is capable of playing as a centre-back or left-back, which would strengthen Klopp’s potential. options.
It is unknown if the Liverpool boss is keen to bring Koumetio into his first-team squad. But the Reds are still challenging across four different competitions in the Premier League, Champions League, FA Cup and Carabao Cup.
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Klopp has also praised Koumetio in the past, and those comments now hint that he could have a future. Three years ago, the German congratulated the defender after his pre-season debut.
“Billy, the kid. He doesn’t look like a kid! In my opinion, his face looks like a kid’s, but everything else is like, wow! Yeah, he’s a wonderful talent. I’m pretty sure he’s going to do great things. ” steps. ” Klopp said at the time.
“Billy played super balls, super passes. Our last line played [for the] first time together, it’s completely fine, we were just not high enough. There were many situations where I thought ‘it must be offside’, and it wasn’t offside.
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“So all those things, little things to learn, but at 17, wow, the whole life ahead of him, which is nice. A wonderful talent, and like I said, he had some very, very clever situations, but that pressed ball wasn’t so nice.
Koumetio’s failure at Dunkirk was not his first difficult loan. He also had to cut short his time at Austria Vienna last season after making just 11 appearances in the first part of that campaign.
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