The Croatian centre-back has endured a hard spell since moving from Southampton for a reported £20 million fee last July and recently lost his place in the team to Mamadou Sakho.
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Jamie Carragher says that Dejan Lovren is running out of chances to prove that he is good enough for Liverpool.
Defender Dejan Lovren is keen to make the most of his first Premier League start under manager Juergen Klopp when Liverpool take on Manchester City Saturday, with the Croat replacing injured center back Mamadou Sakho.
“Then he will go back to LA and train and play there”.
According to the Reds manager Jurgen Klopp, Sakho’s injury is “not too serious”.
Sakho limped off with a knee injury during the Reds 2-1 defeat to Crystal Palace at Anfield and has since been ruled out for up to eight weeks.
“So we need to be clever and concentrated all the time, for 95 minutes, against him”.
“He will be a big loss”. Lovren can probably count himself lucky that Klopp witnessed his play in person in what was one of his top performances in Red so far, and that he’s obviously managed to channel something of that performance during training since Klopp’s arrival.
But the in-form centre-back’s absence opens the door for 26-year-old Lovren, who Klopp believes won’t let his team-mates and the club down alongside Martin Skrtel. Maybe that will be a position he looks at in January. That’s what I can say.
“It [football] is a matter of opinions. If people like Monday Night Football or watching us, then we’re doing something right”.
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The victor of the award will be announced at a gala event in London in December, which has been organised to mark the 10th anniversary of the programme Coaching for Hope, and Carragher admitted he was happy to have been shortlisted for it. I don’t know what I will do tomorrow when I name the squad. “I have to decide this tomorrow – and I’ll start thinking about it after the press conference”. “Whoever wins it will still continue to do big work, whoever it is”.
