Well, Divock Origi has probably already played his very last game for Liverpool.
Liverpool put one foot in the semi-final of the Champions League on Tuesday night by winning 3-1 away to Benfica.
However, Origi was nowhere to be seen as Jurgen Klopp left him out of the first XI and the matchday squad.
And that’s a relatively solid indication that he might never play for the Reds ever again.
The Liverpool manager even started Diogo Jota and Roberto Firmino on the bench, leaving a place open for the Belgian 26-year-old as a number nine.
However, Klopp wound up starting Sadio Mane through the middle and that’s perhaps the most damning piece of evidence yet that Origi is finished on Merseyside, the fact that a winger started ahead of the former Lille hitman.
Calciomercato reported this week that the Belgium international has agreed a deal to join AC Milan for free this summer, upon the expiration of his contract at Anfield.
And based on last night, the Liverpool boss is already planning for life without him.
That’s Mane, Jota and Firmino who Klopp considers as number nine options, making Origi the fourth-choice striker.
And with every encounter being a must-win game for the Reds between now and the end of the season, well it’s very probable that Origi will not get a swansong.
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