Jurgen Klopp has told Liverpool’s official website that he was shocked when he found out the news that Xherdan Shaqiri was injured.
Shaqiri was unavailable for Liverpool in their game against Leicester City yesterday, as he returned from the international break with an injury issue.
And Klopp admits that he was caught off guard by Shaqiri’s injury, as even the player didn’t realise he had suffered it.
“Shaq, how I know it, he had a muscle injury with the national team which he didn’t really realise,” he said.
“Now he trained with us, we gave him a day off and then he came back and was involved in the session, but was not fully involved and all these kind of things. He just did a little bit, after that he felt a little bit. Then we did a scan and they found he has an injury from five or six days ago.
“Nobody knew about that, not even Shaq knew about it, but that’s how things sometimes are and so he was not able to be involved.”
Shaqiri’s injury could hardly have come at a worse time for the Swiss international.
With Liverpool having so many players out, Shaqiri finally looked likely to receive some regular game time, but the £13 million signing (TalkSPORT) instead will now need to spend time on the treatment table.
It is not yet clear how long Shaqiri will be sidelined for, but Liverpool will want him back sooner rather than later.
The Reds are next in action on Wednesday evening, when they take on Atalanta in the Champions League.
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