Jurgen Klopp may be forced to scrap Liverpool rule as injury crisis gets worse

If Liverpool were expecting their wage bill to decrease following the departures of several high earners last summer, they might find those savings have since been reinvested on overtime shifts for the medical department.

When it was put to Jurgen Klopp earlier this month that he travelled to Arsenal with something of a "luxury problem" of having virtually a full complement of players to choose from for the first time this season, the Reds manager bristled.

To Klopp, being able to select from a full squad of fit players was not necessarily a prospect to be savoured or indulged and it was a question that clearly stuck with him as a week later he said he would kick anyone out of his pre-match press conference if such a notion was to be put to him once more.

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"Somebody asked me about the 'luxury problem' of having so many players available," Klopp said. "If anyone asks me that again, I [will] kick them out of the room!"

The defeat that followed at Arsenal left him without Thiago Alcantara once more and unable to select Ibrahima Konate against Burnley through suspension after his red card. Those issues compounded the fact that Dominik Szoboszlai was ruled out for the 3-1 loss itself and the Hungary captain remains on the shelf, apparently champing at the bit to be involved but without the medical clearance needed to do so.

"I said if you ask Dom he plays against Brentford," Klopp said before Burnley. "That is the problem with the injury. It is a muscle injury with a slight tendon involvement. The muscle is not big but the tendon is the