Liverpool to sign keeper Andy Lonergan on short-term deal after Alisson injury

LIVERPOOL are set to sign goalkeeper Andy Lonergan on a short-term deal following the unfortunate injury sustained by Alisson.

Jurgen Klopp has turned to the former Preston and Bolton stopper - who joined Liverpool on their pre-season tour of the US - as back-upto No2 Adrian.

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Alisson has been ruled out for "a few weeks" after injuring himself on the opening day of the season - a 4-1 home win over Norwich.

Now, 35-year-old Lonergan could find himself on the bench at Anfield in the coming weeks.

Klopp revealed: “The situation was even more difficult a few weeks ago because of injuries. But Caoimhin Kelleher is now in his final steps for being completely back.

“He’s training only [for] five days or so, catching balls and all that stuff, it looks all good.

"But of course we have to find a solution in the short term and that will be if nothing happens from now to then, Andy Lonergan.

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“He was in with us, he’s a brilliant character, a really nice lad and helped us a lot in the pre-season and now we decided to work together with him.

“So that’s a very experienced solution but in the moment when Caoimhin is back then obviously Adrian is No1, Caoimhin probably No2.

"But we have to see how then he can have some games with the Under-23s or U21s [so] that he gets match practice as well.

“We have to see how that works but that’s then how we cover that situation.”

Earlier on Monday, Klopp has his say on Alisson's injury, claiming: “[It’s] Not too cool. It’s a calf injury which takes him obviously out for a while.

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“I don’t want to make now [an] exact prognosis on when he will be back but it will not be Wednesday for sure, so now then we have to see.

"It takes a while, it takes a couple weeks for sure, and we have to see.

“I saw already like ‘six weeks’ and stuff like this, but Ali was not a lot injured in his career so I would like to wait a little bit to see how he develops in that process now.

"But he is not in for the next few weeks.”