• Defender has not played since knee injury in October
  • Manager hopes Minamino’s Saints loan is ‘win-win’

Jürgen Klopp has said it would take a miracle for Virgil van Dijk to play again this season and revealed Takumi Minamino’s height limited his appearances for Liverpool.
Liverpool have been reluctant to put a timeframe on Van Dijk’s recovery from the cruciate knee ligament injury sustained in October, yet reports in recent days claimed the influential defender could return this season. Klopp has not ruled out including Van Dijk on Liverpool’s squad list when it is submitted to the Premier League this week. But the addition of Van Dijk or Joe Gomez, also sidelined with a serious knee injury, would be more in hope than expectation of featuring in Liverpool’s title defence, the manager admitted.
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