Liverpool suffer fresh injury setback after Arne Slot makes 'stupid' decision

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07:48, Fri, Oct 31, 2025 Updated: 07:52, Fri, Oct 31, 2025 Arne Slot will reportedly be without Jeremie Frimpong until December (Image: GETTY)Jeremie Frimpong faces being sidelined until December following a hamstring problem sustained during Liverpool's triumph against Eintracht Frankfurt. Arne Slot acknowledged in Germany that he anticipated the right-back would be 'out now for a few weeks,' before subsequently confirming he faced an extended period on the treatment table."Jeremie's not in a good place," Slot confirmed ahead of the Brentford fixture.

"What I mean by that he is definitely not going to play today, tomorrow or next week. Hamstring injury so that's going to take a while." The Daily Mail now claims that Frimpong is looking at a six-week absence, with his hamstring problem against Frankfurt marking the second occasion he has sustained such an injury this campaign.The full-back was withdrawn through injury whilst making his Premier League bow against Bournemouth, though he sat out just two fixtures before returning following the September international window.However, having already been absent for two matches since his most recent setback, Frimpong could potentially miss a further seven fixtures should he be unavailable for the reported complete six-week period.Liverpool resume their campaign at home to Aston Villa on Saturday evening before welcoming Real Madrid on Tuesday 4 November and making the trip to Man City on Sunday 9 November.The Reds will then welcome Nottingham Forest (Saturday 22 November) and PSV Eindhoven (Wednesday 26 November) after the international break, before making the trip to West Ham United on Sunday 30 November.Frimpong picked up a hamstring injury in Liverpool's win over Eintracht Frankfurt (Image: GETTY)It comes after Slot made 10 alterations to his starting XI against Palace and selected a substitutes' bench consisting entirely of academy prospects whilst most of his senior squad were rested.With Conor Bradley representing his sole available senior right-back option in Frimpong's absence, Slot referenced the Northern Ireland international when justifying his contentious team selection."Everybody can have [their] opinion about it but with the squad we have - maybe 15, 16 first-team players available - this is the choice I've made," he explained following the final whistle."Last time we played Southampton here in the League Cup, Giovanni Leoni got injured, and we don't have such a big squad as people might tell, because there was so much focus on the amount of money we spent [in the summer]."People all of a sudden think we have 25 players available but we mainly have 20 players then we have four injuries."I only have one right full-back, Conor Bradley, as an example, and every time I had to play him twice in three days or three times in seven days [last season], it led to him... that I had to take him off with a hamstring injury or something else."Are you willing to take that risk with such a big week coming up?

Last time I played a player that wasn't fully prepared - we thought he was prepared but it was the first time - Alexander Isak, he got injured."Last time we played Southampton, Leoni was injured and it was a red card for Hugo Ekitike. What if I had played Virgil [van Dijk] and Ibou [Konate], for example, if one of them got injured people would have said, 'what a stupid choice'." Read next Invalid emailWe use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you.