Liverpool should sign Stoke goalkeeper Jack Butland following the news of Alisson's injury, according to former England No 1 Paul Robinson. Alisson is set to miss up to six weeks of action after suffering a shoulder injury in training. The first Premier League game without the Brazilian saw Liverpool ship seven goals in an extraordinary 7-2 defeat at Aston Villa on Sunday.
“While the domestic window is still open we may see Liverpool do some business. There is a lot of good goalkeepers that are not playing football right now.
“I can see Liverpool signing the likes of Jack Butland on a short-term deal. They need somebody like that.
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"But apart from that, I don’t think he had anything to do with all the other goals pretty much.
“We didn’t help him tonight, let me say it like this, or we even did the opposite.
“He’s a really good goalie who played 11 [Premier League] games for us last year and I think we won pretty much all of them. It’s all fine. Tonight our goalie was not the problem.”
Liverpool's next league match is against Merseyside rivals Everton at Goodison Park on October 17.
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And Klopp says there is no chance Alisson will be ready to play that fixture.
“No chance to play against Everton,” Klopp said.
“We don’t know exactly. Let me say, it could have been worse with that injury, that’s for sure.
“We were slightly lucky but it’s not that he can play against Everton."
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