Jurgen Klopp set to unleash Liverpool youngster in new role two years on from horror injury
It's two years to the day since Harvey Elliott woke up in Leeds General Infirmary with the biggest test of a young career staring him in the face.
Around 12 hours earlier, the Liverpool midfielder had arrived at the facility with club doctor Jim Moxon after suffering a horrendous dislocation of his ankle following a challenge from Leeds United's Pascal Struijk at Elland Road.
"It is a serious injury, definitely for an 18 year old boy," said Jurgen Klopp, while his opposite number at the time, Marcelo Bielsa added: "For that to happen to any player is saddening. For a young player, playing at a high level, even more."
It was a sickening setback for someone who was taking his tentative steps towards first-team stardom with three starts from the first four games. It was an injury that left some of Elliott's colleagues, like Naby Keita, visibly in distress and that the ankle was able to be put back into place so quickly owed a lot to the reaction of Mohamed Salah, who immediately stopped playing to call for the physios who arrived on the scene within seconds.
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While in hospital, Elliott made the recovery period of a 13-year-old Liverpool fan by the name of Jacob easier when he gave him his kit as a souvenir of their chance meeting while they were both assessed by the medical staff. "I'm a big Liverpool fan so I told him he's a really good player and he gave me a lot of helpful advice," said the youngster at the time.
"Harvey was asking him about his football, how he got his injury and everything," said Jacob's father, Imran. "He was so brilliant and
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