Liverpool news: Benteke and Firmino boosts but Joe Gomez out for the rest of the season, confirms Jurgen Klopp

Jurgen Klopp has told Liverpool starlet Joe Gomez he will do everything he can to help the defender return from his ill-timed injury as soon as possible.

The new Reds manager has confirmed news that the 18-year-old defender sustained an anterior cruciate ligament injury on England Under-21 duty, which is likely to rule him out for the rest of the season

However, Klopp has told the youngster he will give him all the time he needs to fight his way back to fitness.

"The information about young Joe Gomez is not the best. He came back here and I met him for the first time," he said.

"What a wonderful young boy: tall, muscles in the right positions, but he has an injured knee - an ACL.

"We have to make a further diagnosis and we will see when he gets operated on but from this point on he can count the days until he comes back.

"It was not the best day in his life but he is a young guy and I am pretty good at waiting for players, young players especially.

"This is his home and we will do everything to help him come back as soon as possible."

Klopp offered more optimistic news on striker Christian Benteke [hamstring] and Roberto Firmino [back], two players who are expected to play a major part in his plans to implement a new way of working at the club having taken over from Brendan Rodgers.

"Benteke and Firmino are on their way back too. They are back on the pitch but not team training," he added in his pre-match press conference ahead of his first game as Liverpool boss at Tottenham on Saturday.

"I do not know exactly when they come back but next week [it will be with team training] and then we can see how fit they are.

"For sure not Saturday [they will be fit] and I don't think Thursday but maybe next Sunday."