Jurgen Klopp irritated by Ian Abrahams’ question on whether Liverpool need to buy another centre-back in January

Jurgen Klopp rubbished options made by talkSPORT’s Ian Abrahams that Liverpool could contemplate signing a brand new centre-back in January.

The German, who spoke to Moose after the Reds’ 2-1 defeat at Wolves within the FA Cup, has one thing of a defensive choice disaster forward of their subsequent sport in opposition to Brighton on Saturday.

It is because Dejan Lovren went off injured early within the sport that means Virgil van Dijk is the one out-and-out Liverpool centre-back who’s absolutely match.

It’s not clear what the extent of Lovren’s damage is however he may be a part of fellow centre-backs Joe Gomez and Joel Matip, who’ve been out since December, on the therapy desk.

With this in thoughts, Moose requested whether or not Klopp would take into consideration recruiting one other centre-back in the course of the January switch window.

And the Reds boss was nearly in disbelief at this, saying: “The one nation that asks a query like that is England. All the things is sorted with shopping for gamers.

“We have now 4 centre-halves. Three, possibly, two-and-a-half are injured so we’ll must try to come by within the second.

“We want them again however you can not purchase a fifth centre-half and say ‘so that you play two weeks and after that the others are available’”.

Lovren was changed by 16-year-old Ki-Jana Hoever, who grew to become the youngest player to represent Liverpool in the FA Cup.

Hoever acquitted himself properly within the sport alongside academy gamers Curtis Jones, 17, and Rafa Camacho, 18, who began the sport.

Klopp added: “Ki-Jana was implausible, he’s 16-years-old and the opposite two boys are 18-years-old so it was a bit wild.

“It wasn’t a pleasant sport for the younger boys. It wasn’t like we had been 4-Zero up however they did the job, particularly Ki-Jana coming in.

“I don’t suppose he [Hoever] anticipated after not beginning the sport that he would come on after which, DONG, I’ve to ask him if he’s prepared. He did properly, it was good however yeah.”