{"id":532962,"date":"2023-10-28T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-28T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/?p=532962"},"modified":"2023-10-28T06:26:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T05:26:49","slug":"liverpool-told-to-sign-two-new-defenders-in-january-after-crushing-news-agbonlahor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/liverpool-told-to-sign-two-new-defenders-in-january-after-crushing-news-agbonlahor\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool told to sign two new defenders in January after crushing news – Agbonlahor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Gabby Agbonlahor<\/strong> has insisted “teams will target” Liverpool stand-in Kostas Tsimikas with Andy Robertson ruled out for an extended period.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The former Aston Villa striker, speaking exclusively to Football Insider<\/strong>, insisted the Reds should address their sub-par full-back cover on both sides in the January window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jurgen Klopp has confirmed<\/a> Robertson has undergone successful surgery on a shoulder injury he sustained while playing for Scotland earlier this month. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The German could not reveal how long the left-back is expected to miss during his recovery – but it is likely to be months rather than weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tsimikas, who is the only other natural senior left-back at Liverpool, started the 2-0 win over Everton on Saturday (21 October) but was withdrawn after 62 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Klopp faced a similar conundrum during Trent Alexander-Arnold’s injury absence last month and chose to play Joe Gomez in a right-back role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Reds are in action against Toulouse (26 October) and Nottingham Forest (29 October) in the coming days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When asked if Klopp will be worried about playing Tsimikas during Robertson’s absence, Agbonlahor told Football Insider<\/strong>\u2019s Ewan Kingsbury: \u201c100%. Teams will target him.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe\u2019s ok, but a bit erratic. He\u2019s not great in the final third.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cA club like Liverpool, they need better backup both at right-back and left-back. Look at other clubs and the players they have available.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s something Klopp will have to look at, maybe in January, because Robertson\u2019s injury is devastating news for Klopp, it’s probably worse than what Liverpool are letting on\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other news, Arsenal could sell two stars and then beat Liverpool to midfielder.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gabby Agbonlahor has insisted “teams will target” Liverpool stand-in Kostas Tsimikas with Andy Robertson ruled out for an extended period. The former Aston Villa striker, speaking exclusively to Football Insider, insisted the Reds should address their sub-par full-back cover on both sides in the January window. Jurgen Klopp has confirmed Robertson has undergone successful surgery …<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":454555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverart":"\"\"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","_grv_disable_ads":false,"grv_featured_categories":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532962"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533518,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532962\/revisions\/533518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}