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Jurgen Klopp: Thiago Alcantara injury 'really not good news'

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Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp insisted that the latest injury picked up by Thiago Alcantara is "something nobody needed" - while adding that he is unsure whether fellow midfielder Dominik Szoboszlai would be fit for this month's Carabao Cup final.Thiago was injured after playing his first 10 minutes of the campaign in Sunday's defeat at Arsenal, while Szoboszlai is sidelined after aggravating a hamstring problem which caused him to miss most of January.With Mohamed Salah (hamstring) still potentially two weeks away from rejoining training, Ibrahima Konate suspended and flu affecting the squad - Joe Gomez did not train on Thursday - the German jokingly threatened to throw out of the room anyone who suggested the options he had at his disposal were a luxury."Two or three weeks ago we sat here and were talking about the luxury problem of lining up players: if anybody asks me that question again then I will kick them out of the room," said Klopp ahead of Saturday's visit of Burnley."We talk once about it, then a week later we have a completely different situation."Thiago is not cool.

Everything looked absolutely fantastic in training and then it's a muscle issue."We don't know the extent yet but it's really not good news for him, for us or everybody."In normal procedure it wouldn't be a big story as he wouldn't have been out a long time.

It's not a big injury, definitely not, but it's something nobody needed."On Szoboszlai, Klopp added: "Dom is running outside at the moment but is not ready for tomorrow. "It's pretty much the same injury as he had before, obviously it's really not good that he got that again."We are fighting for days, if you want.

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