Joe Gomez's injury underlines Liverpool's desperate need for defensive signings

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"Probably the worst news has been straight away the injury of Joe. Thus, those in attendance in Tennessee were hoping to see Jérémy Jacquet, but he as not even named among the substitutes, with Iraola providing this explanation.

He's had a lot of months without playing and he's been training very well, but we're going to take it easy with him. He will play probably in the last game of this tour and he will have time to have minutes."The 21 year old Frenchman has just arrived from Stade Rennais for £60 million, becoming a Liverpool player in January, before immediately being loaned back to les Rouge et Noirs.

However, as Iraola references, he did not play many more times for Rennes, suffering a serious shoulder injury against Lens at Stade Bollaert-Delelis on 7 February, and he has not seen any action since. For now, youngsters Mor Talla Ndiaye, Ifeanyi Ndukwe and potentially Luke Chambers too are set to see plenty of minutes at centre-back this week, because Iraola frankly has no one else.