“I have never heard that a player that young plays three games in five days,” Klopp said at the time. “That was the problem why he got injured. I don’t know who I have to speak to about this, but I will find a way of talking to someone. It is not OK. Is it normal in England that you have to play three games in five days? These young players are our future, but if we handle them like horses then we get horses.”