Jurgen Klopp explains lack of minutes for summer signing
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has insisted that summer signing Wataru Endo is a "super important part of the squad" and will "start games" for the Reds this season, having played only five minutes across the club's last three Premier League fixtures. Liverpool turned to Endo, almost relegated from the Bundesliga with Stuttgart last season, for around £16m in the same week that it became clear that Moises Caicedo and Romeo Lavia were both going to join Chelsea for a combined £173m instead. Endo made his Liverpool debut as a substitute for the final half hour of the club's Premier League opener against Bournemouth. He then started against Newcastle but was withdrawn inside an hour before the Reds eventually went on to mount a comeback win. Klopp;s message about Endo was similar after both Game s, saying after Bournemouth that it was "horrible" circumstances for the Japan international to come into after Alexis Mac Allister was sent off and that he ...