Jürgen Klopp today provided a brief update on Mamadou Sakho’s injury status.
The Liverpool manager has ruled the 26-year-old out of Tuesday’s League Cup game against Derby County despite being back in training for a couple of weeks following an Achilles problem.
Asked about the defender’s fitness, Klopp said: “He is still working on it. Of course he’s closer to everything. he’s still working but being match fit is a big difference, that’s all.
“We have to have a few sessions, then it’s not about how the player feels, it’s how I feel about how close the players are. It needs time.
“It’s a long, long time since he didn’t play. All the others didn’t have that long a break. It makes more sense that we really use the time and that’s what we’re working on.”
Sakho refused to leave the club on loan in the summer opting instead to remain at Anfield despite the manager suggesting he should go out to build his fitness up.
