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leaves Liverpool this summer having only played 129 times in five years, with staff accepting the midfielder struggled to adapt. When a £52.75 million deal was struck with RB Leipzig in 2017, Keita became, albeit briefly, the most expensive player in Liverpool’s history. That record has been broken twice since, but the Guinean remains the club’s fourth-biggest signing, behind only and .

The hype around his switch was significant, but Keita’s ongoing fitness issues have consigned his spell with the club as one of its most disappointing.



After inheriting the No. 8 shirt from Steven Gerrard, he went on to miss around 800 days due to various injuries. “Staff point to the challenge of adjusting to greater intensity and physicality than he was used to both in training and matches,” Pearce wrote.



It is explained that Liverpool staff “left no stone unturned” when it came to improving Keita’s fitness, including yoga, changes to his diet and carefully managing his training schedule.