Kostas Tsimikas is finished before he began
Liverpool defender Kostas Tsimikas is finished before he began – at least for this campaign.
The summer signing is yet to make his Premier League debut, while his season has been disrupted by COVID, injury, and everything in between.
His £11.7 million arrival was heralded by fans as one squad addition that would help Jurgen Klopp’s side attack another title with gusto.
Tsimikas was highly rated upon his arrival from Olympiacos, but just four appearances later it appears as if his season is finished.
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Andy Robertson is the undisputed first-choice Liverpool left-back and probably (definitely) the best left-back in the world, but even the Flying Scotsman could do with a rest at times.
Tsimikas has been on the bench for the last four games in a row without playing a single minute. Three of those games, theoretically, should have been against sides in which Klopp could afford to rotate his defence.
Ordinarily, West Ham, Burnley and Brighton don’t represent a massive burden to the Liverpool defence and Liverpool only conceded three goals in that trio of fixtures; although the Clarets and the Seagulls did manage to extract wins from Fortress Anfield.
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The point is this: if Tsimikas wasn’t considered able to step in and make his Premier League debut for any of those games, despite being fit, his chances of playing are going to be very slim.
Liverpool might not write the Greek international off just yet. This has, after all, been a campaign of unprecedented disruption and it must be the most difficult time to start at the new club in a new country.
With a full preseason and 12 months of learning off Klopp and his coaching staff behind him, Tsimikas should be primed to make the most of 2021/2022.
But as things stand, poor Kostas Tsimikas is finished for the campaign and the road to recovery looks like it’ll be a long one.