Overview
- Liverpool trained without Mohamed Salah, Alisson Becker, Alexander Isak, Ibrahima Konate and Giorgi Mamardashvili, raising fresh selection doubts for the Chelsea match.
- Alisson’s hamstring issue has already kept him out of 10 league games, and Salah is recovering from a hamstring problem with reports suggesting he is targeting a return next week at Aston Villa.
- Isak sat out with a minor groin problem after a recent comeback from a broken leg, Konate’s absence was not explained, and Mamardashvili continues to recover from a knee wound.
- With first and second‑choice goalkeepers sidelined, third‑choice Freddie Woodman is on standby, while longer-term absentees such as Hugo Ekitike, Conor Bradley, Giovanni Leoni and Wataru Endo further thin squad depth.
- Transfer talk has intensified as reports link Liverpool with Real Madrid’s Aurelien Tchouameni, pundits tout West Ham’s Jarrod Bowen as a possible Salah successor, The Telegraph notes a release clause for Inter’s Denzel Dumfries with Virgil van Dijk seen as an influence, and Danny Murphy argues Milos Kerkez should be upgraded with Newcastle’s Lewis Hall.