With solely three video games left to play in his Liverpool profession, Roberto Firmino is more and more unlikely to interrupt an all-time Jurgen Klopp file set in 2015.
Klopp has been a supervisor for 22 years, following up spells at Mainz and Dortmund along with his seminal, trophy-laden reign at Anfield.
Throughout that point, 252 completely different gamers have featured beneath the German, with 98 of these doing so for Liverpool.
No participant has made extra appearances for Klopp all through his managerial profession than Firmino (353), with James Milner (320), Mo Salah (302), Jordan Henderson (301) and Neven Subotic (281) making up the highest 5.
Solely Salah (264), with 186 objectives and 78 assists, has straight contributed to extra objectives than the Brazilian (188), who has scored 109 and laid on 79.
Nevertheless, on the subject of minutes on the pitch, Firmino is just third.
Jurgen Klopp’s most-used gamers (minutes)
Firmino has clocked 25,020 minutes for Klopp, which sits him behind each Subotic (25,107) and Dortmund legend Roman Weidenfeller (25,156).
Lengthy-serving goalkeeper Weidenfeller, who began 279 occasions for the supervisor and was solely subbed off 3 times, set the file in the course of the 2014/15 marketing campaign.
Firmino would wish to clock 137 extra minutes within the subsequent three video games to interrupt Weidenfeller’s file as Klopp’s all-time most-used participant.
Salah (24,807), in the meantime, will not be far behind, and is assured to surpass Weidenfeller’s tally subsequent season.
Liverpool are set to tackle Leicester, Aston Villa and Southampton of their ultimate video games of the Premier League marketing campaign, after which the No. 9 will depart on a free switch.
That might, in fact, solely require simply over 45 minutes on the pitch in every of these fixtures, which might be decrease than his common for this time period (49.5).
Sadly, although, Firmino remains to be not in full coaching following a muscle harm that has stored him out of the final 5 video games.
The 31-year-old was not a part of the squad working on the AXA Coaching Centre on Wednesday, which got here after a three-day break for the primary crew in Barcelona.
Previous to the 1-0 win over Fulham at first of Could, Klopp stated Firmino “appears to be like good” and “is doing increasingly more,” however added that “we’re ready for him to hitch crew coaching once more.”
If Firmino is ready to return this week there may be nonetheless an opportunity he’s concerned for the journey to Leicester on Monday evening, with scope for appearances at house to Villa and away to Southampton.
Whether or not he’ll accomplish that is unclear, with there a danger he has already performed his ultimate recreation for Liverpool.
