View: Liverpool must put foot down or risk unnecessary gamble on £120,000-a-week first teamer

OPINION

You will struggle to find a footballer that doesn’t want to play football.

Despite the fact that it’s all they do, day in, day out for the majority of their formative years and well into their adulthood, most players are still subject to the same child-like wonder the rest of us feel from a game of five-a-side on a Wednesday night.

And that’s great, expect that it also means it can be hard to convince them that they are in no fit state to play when they pick up a knock or a niggle.

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