Klopp can't take it anymore, player to leave Liverpool after Brighton game

Liverpool FC finally had a long week since drawing against Chelsea at Anfield as part of the Premier League. With a break for the EFL Cup and an early FA Cup game, Klopp used the break to create a decent starting XI that can beat Brighton Hove Albion in a game that kicked off on Sunday as part of the FA Cup knockout round.

Klopp knows full well that they must win at Brighton, as the time for dropping points is over and they are slipping away from the top places in the English Premier League. It is not easy for the German to put together a line-up when important players are injured, such as Dutchman Virgil van Dijk who, unfortunately, will be back until mid-February with a hamstring injury.

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With this, Klopp has to make use of what he has available, although he will also have to make room in the salary cap to have a reserve and be able to sign players in this transfer market that began with the important addition of the Oranje gem Cody Gakpo, who already made his debut and had his first minutes against Wolverhampton. With Gakpo at 100 per cent Klopp has another weapon in attack after the low level of Darwin Núñez.

But this is not what has given Klopp a headache, it is what he will do with Naby Keïta, who has returned to training alongside his teammates, after it transpired that he and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain have expressed to Klopp their intention to leave in June when their contracts with the Reds expire, and that if an offer for them arrives in January, they will accept it.

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In such a situation Jürgen Klopp would take the decision to give them the green light and let them go, and even the latest reports from England suggest that both already have offers in other football leagues, such as France and Spain. For now these midfielders are part of the team looking to transcend in the FA Cup, a competition in which they will try to lift the trophy.