Liverpool have a large number of players on loan this season and now they have reported that a man is set to return to the club, after an unsuccessful spell away from the Reds.
As the club’s official website reports: ‘Liverpool have withdrawn Billy Koumetio from his loan spell with Austria Vienna’.
The 20-year-old managed to record 15 appearances for Austria but missed seven of the last eight league games, so the decision to remove him from the club makes a lot more sense.
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Some will assume that Virgil van Dijk’s injury may have prompted the club to add more cover to the position, but it seems unlikely that the young defender will have a chance to fill the void left by our number 4.
So it seems likely that we will now try to find him a new club for the second half of the campaign, especially given the rule that you can’t represent three different teams in the same season.
The search for a new club may have already begun, or we could see Billy Koumetio play out the rest of the year with academy teams and see if that opens up his showcase this summer.
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