I feel sorry for Danny Ings not getting a game. I wonder if its getting him down? please log in to view this image I guess not
http://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/first-team/241655-liverpool-confirm-danny-ings-requires-knee-surgery Liverpool Football Club can confirm Danny Ings requires surgery on an impact injury sustained to his right knee during the EFL Cup fourth-round tie with Tottenham Hotspur last week. The problem was picked up when attempting to make a challenge in the closing stages of the game at Anfield - and Jürgen Klopp has explained to supporters it’s likely to mean the Reds are without the striker’s services for a period of between seven and nine months following the operation. The procedure, which will be performed today in London, will correct the damage sustained from the challenge to the cartilage in his right knee. It is not in the same knee in which the 24-year-old suffered an anterior cruciate ligament injury in October 2015. Klopp said: "To say we are gutted would be an understatement; he is such a great boy and has worked so hard that he deserves better luck than this. "It is typical of Danny's personality, on and off the pitch, that he picked up this injury to his knee when courageously trying to win the ball back for his team by making a tackle. "But it is this same personality that means he will come back as good and as strong from this latest setback as he has done in the past. "I'm told the likely lay off is anywhere from between seven to nine months. He is mentally strong, physically strong and will have the very best treatment and rehab possible to make sure when he returns he is ready to play for us at the level we know he is capable of."
Truth is with Sturridge and Origi on the bench and Firmino upfront, he was never really considered and Klopp hinted he should go out on loan. He just hasn't worked out through no fault of his own and I expect him to be sold although it is a shame.
Poor guy. No luck whatsoever. Hope he recovers well. Have a feeling he might go out on loan when fit again and then move on
It's a pisser, alright. Good lad with a great attitude. I hope he still has a career, but as already stated, I doubt it'll be with us. Speedy recovery, lad
Difficult to find another 4th choice striker with such a dedicated attitude though You know exactly what job Ings will do for you, now we need to replace him in our LC campaign which puts a bit more stress on the squad
I'd not go that far. relative to a prem league player yeah no luck but he secured a move to us on the cheap and prob is sitting on a great contract so...
not really. he's not contributed yet. LFC play leeds so we are covered there and then in January we hopefully play a 2 legged SF where the firsts would be playing anyway.
Its cartilage by the sounds of it so... that IMO is quite a dodgy knee, even more so than cruciate I agree, he was hanging by a thread of hope that it was building fitness that had him not in 18 on match days now he will be bypassed cos thats the way it has to be.
Hopefully not career ending. Doubt we'd sell him in the summer after this. Send him on loan next year, then sell Jan or summer after. He would be useful at a football team like Swansea or Stoke.
He's done ... for us definitely, and at the top prem level maybe Honestly, he seems like a good guy, a hard worker and we haven't really seen what he's got or could have in our side plus Klopp seems very disappointed but he's a master of saying the best things for the situation. But he's a middling quality Prem player at best, a typical Rodgers signing (as much as there is such a thing) who ultimately will fall short. And under Klopp it looks like his body isn't cut out for the style given that he's been injured immediately both times he's been brought into the fold
who else did this type of thing? one knee then the other? I think there must be a few examples? Niall quinn. Julian dicks Alan shearer? Paul gascoigne? was robbie fowler and ankle and knee? Owen did one knee. Van nistlerooy did his before moving to utd some were very lsowed down, some barely missed a beat. I think a lot of it boils down to attitude to recovery and also to the times that they happened.
Dont think anyone saw him as a first 11 player but as Astro said, find me a better 3rd or 4th choice striker in the league in terms of quality and attitude. Not many around. I saw him more of our new Kuyt. Real hard worker, do a job anywhere you put him and will hop in with a few goals throughout the season. Its a shame he didn't get a goal in that Spurs game, by times he back he'd have been with us nearly 3 years and never scored a goal!
Origi Sturridge Firmino 3 players who are all better than Ings. We don't need a 4th choice striker IMO. This news doesn't impact us whatsoever, but it's such awful luck for the lad. Hope he recovers well and finds a move elsewhere.
Yeh he was never intended to be the leading man and you can add Firmino to that list - not a true striker really but he scores - Ings' 2 in 6 PL games was Ok and he's a decent option and yeh without injuries and a run he might've improved that, but he's the sort of player who if he leaves the club won't be missed other than in a very pragmatic sense of needing bodies in the squad and on the bench over the course of a season, nobody will remember he even played for the club a month after we sell him, like seeing Martin Kelly playing for Palace that's the first time you've thought of him since you were screaming at him 2 years ago for not covering one of the opposition FWs down our flank or not getting forward fast enough
