Braga defender David Carmo is bracing himself for four months on the sidelines after the reported Liverpool target suffered a fractured tibia and fibula in midweek, as he told Instagram.
It seems that Liverpool’s injury curse is not just restricted to those who ply their trade at Anfield.
Because, less than two weeks after the Premier League champions made a £21.5 million bid for the 2020/21 breakthrough star, Carmo was being loaded into the back of an on-pitch ambulance 70 minutes into Braga’s Taca de Portugal clash with Porto.
A Bola reports that the 21-year-old will be out of action for the rest of this season with a broken leg. A bitter blow for a man who has blossomed into one of the country’s most promising youngsters over the last few months.
Yet Carmo, an aggressive and uncompromising defender, is not the sort of player to duck a challenge.
“I’ve been through a lot and this is just another obstacle. My past has made me a life soldier,” Carmo wrote.
In truth, it has been a bad couple of days for a few of the defenders Liverpool tried to sign in January, before completing deadline-day deals for Ozan Kabak and Ben Davies.
Samuel Umtiti turned down a shock move to Anfield, according to The Athletic, prior to a pair of high-profile errors during Barcelona’s 2-0 Copa del Rey defeat to Sevilla.
Across the Channel, Duje Caleta-Car’s crisis-hit Marseille slipped to ninth in the Ligue 1 table after losing to bitter rivals PSG.
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