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Liverpool finally appoint a club doctor

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After a long search that lasted over three months, Jurgen Klopp’s  Liverpool has appointed a new club doctor, Jonathan Power. Power is expected to start his new role as club doctor when he meets the team during their warm-weather training in Dubai in the second week of December.

Klopp’s team has been without an official club doctor since the unexpected and suspiciously timed departure of Jim Moxon. Moxon quit Liverpool just one week before the start of the current season. Coincidentally Liverpool has been marred by injuries across the pitch. Other than a long period of rest for those players who did not travel to Qatar, a new club doctor should reduce the headache that Klopp has of players spending too much time on the physio’s table.

Since Moxon left, two academy staff doctors have played the role of club doctors along with Dr. Andreas Schlumberger, the head of recovery and performance who was given a vast role and responsibilities than he expected. They stuck together through a rough patch where Liverpool had multiple injuries.

Power formerly worked for the Football Association and Brentford. He has now been appointed by Liverpool and gets added to what is an already very strong backroom staff. He will formally start his role in early 2023. Power has extensive experience, as a team physician at the junior level and then as the men’s team performance doctor from 2017 to 2021 which included a matchday official role for Brentford.

He has also previously worked with Leeds Rhinos rugby, Huddersfield Town, the British Olympic Association, and Team GB’s sports medicine doctor during the 2012 Olympics.

Power comes with vast experience in sports medicine and can surely help change the fortunes of some of the injury-prone players like Thiago Alcantara, Naby Keita, Alex Oxlade Chamberlin, and others.

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