Blow for Liverpool as Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain out 'up to three months' | OneFootball

It could be as long as October before Liverpool’s Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain returns to action, according to a report in the Athletic.

The 28-year-old has undergone a series of tests since limping off during a friendly with Crystal Palace in Singapore on July 15th, and the latest scan is said to have revealed the extent of the damage.

According to the report, Liverpool are not expected to turn to the transfer market to source a replacement for the England international, especially as he had fallen out of favour with boss Jürgen Klopp during the second half of last season.

“With Oxlade, it will take longer,” Klopp told reporters ahead of Saturday’s Community Shield.  “It’s a serious hamstring injury and it will take longer.

“It’s a hamstring, we all hate this word, we hate the injury, but it happens from time to time and now Ox was the one.”

Klopp did confirm, however, that Oxlade-Chamberlain would not require surgery as part of his recovery.