‘Injury made me mentally stronger’: Joe Gomez on his road to recovery

It might have seemed that Joe Gomez’s professional world had folded just five days after JA1 4rgen Klopp’s appointment at Liverpool. There Gomez was: getting games at left back under the previous manager Brendan Rodgers, aged just 18 and looking the part, careering up the pitch representing England’s U21s against Kazakhstan Suddenly, a twinge in his kneeworried looks, a substitution, crutches and a scan.