Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp provides Joel Matip injury diagnosis as the Reds seal Davies and Kabak deals

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has confirmed Joel Matip injury blow as the defender is set to miss the remainder of the 2020-2021 season. Matip suffered an ankle ligament injury during the Reds 3-1 victory over Tottenham on Thursday. Speaking on the defender's setback, Klopp told Liverpoolfc.com: “Unfortunately, we found out now after everybody looked at it that Joel will be out for the rest of the season. “But he will be ready for the start of the next pre-season and finally everything will be sorted.” Klopp added: “In the end, we have to admit that he probably did that. “The situation is just, the season started and Joel was injured when the season started, unfortunately. We should not forget that at Schalke when he was there he played pretty much all the time completely through, he never had something. “Then he was unlucky with a Koulibaly challenge against Napoli in the last second, in the Everton game kind of things, a little bit with the foot here and there. If something started and then the situation is like our situation – that nobody can really wait because of our situation with Virgil out and Joe out – we always had to try to find the first moment when he is able to play again. “It was really unlucky because it was a brilliant challenge he made actually, he saved our life in that moment in the Tottenham game when he won the challenge against Son. “But he injured his ankle and played the game on and now is out for the season, so you can imagine how much he tried to stay on the pitch and tried to help us. “We will wait for him. He has now the rest of this season, then the summer, then the pre-season to get ready again and he will be ready again.” While, unfortunately, Matip joins Joe Gomez and Virgil van Dijk on the sidelines, Liverpool's defence has been boosted with the signings of Ben Davies and Ozan Kabak (on loan). source - Liverpoolfc.com / Join us on Telegram

OFFICIAL: Ben Davies joins Liverpool