Originally Posted by
shminkyred
Could be a good thing.....As long as its not seriously affecting his or his Families health........if he can train in isolation maybe it gives him an opportunity to get himself up to Klopp fitness levels?
According to the club he's not symptomatic or is mildly symptomatic.
Which means for all intents and purposes he's as fit as you or I and can probably still train, even though the club would understandably be against it for the time being for fear of making it worse.
I get the sense that he's got the more 'lighter' case of it which means he'll likely be out of the woods sooner rather than later (as opposed to the more serious bouts that people get where you have to go to hospital into a ventilator and get intubated).
The major concern right now as you rightly point out is the risk of infecting his family (if they're not infected yet) or infecting teammates and risking a wider team-wide contamination.
I don't think fitness was ever an issue with him since he had already been playing in Bayern Munich's opening season games and the Internationals with Spain. It was more a case of getting up to speed with our system (which isn't too dissimilar to Bayern's high press style, to be fair).
It think it's more a case of frustration for him now, because as a new player you really want to hit the ground running and get in sync with your new teammates and get on the same wavelength like Jota seems to be doing.
That's usually the hardest part of joining a new team - especially from a league abroad as we also saw with Keita and Minamino (to a lesser extent) and probably also explains why Jota settled so quickly.
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