{"id":6699,"date":"2026-08-02T12:31:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T12:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gistbuzz.com.ng\/?p=6699"},"modified":"2026-08-02T12:31:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T12:31:52","slug":"liverpool-handed-injury-blow-as-new-signing-suffers-setback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gistbuzz.com.ng\/?p=6699","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool Handed Injury Blow as New Signing Suffers Setback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool&#8217;s defensive options have taken a hit ahead of the new season. Ibrahima Konat\u00e9 has left for Real Madrid on a free transfer, while Joe Gomez is sidelined with injury. New signing Giovanni Leoni is also still recovering from an ACL injury, and youngster Ifeanyi Ndukwe is set to leave on loan due to work permit issues.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6697\" src=\"https:\/\/gistbuzz.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/COS-FeaturedHero-Image-Templates-56-1200x722-1-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gistbuzz.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/COS-FeaturedHero-Image-Templates-56-1200x722-1-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gistbuzz.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/COS-FeaturedHero-Image-Templates-56-1200x722-1-1024x616.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gistbuzz.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/COS-FeaturedHero-Image-Templates-56-1200x722-1-768x462.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gistbuzz.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/COS-FeaturedHero-Image-Templates-56-1200x722-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nThat leaves \u00a360m signing Jeremy Jacquet in line for a key role alongside Virgil van Dijk. However, the 21-year-old is still recovering from shoulder surgery and could miss the friendly against Leeds United after suffering fresh discomfort.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6666\" src=\"https:\/\/gistbuzz.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/c56d5ca697bc4680b0f5b6bcc7ceecc6.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"177\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Manager Andoni Iraola confirmed Liverpool will not rush Jacquet back, insisting the club must carefully manage his recovery despite their shortage of senior centre-backs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Liverpool&#8217;s defensive options have taken a hit ahead of the new season. Ibrahima Konat\u00e9 has left for Real Madrid on a free transfer, while Joe <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/gistbuzz.com.ng\/?p=6699\" title=\"Liverpool Handed Injury Blow as New Signing Suffers Setback\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/gistbuzz.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/w480h272fitcoverq90gfacedpr1fautoscq50-3.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistbuzz.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistbuzz.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistbuzz.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistbuzz.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistbuzz.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gistbuzz.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6701,"href":"https:\/\/gistbuzz.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6699\/revisions\/6701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistbuzz.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistbuzz.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistbuzz.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistbuzz.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}