Nathaniel Clyne: 'Klopp taught me to keep fighting and play with confidence'

Crystal Palace full-back is happy to be back where he started and back in action after his injury-plagued spell with Liverpool

Eventually, Nathaniel Clyne began to get irritated by all the questions. How’s the injury? How long left? When are you going to be back? He knew people meant well. But when you are trying to fight your way back, the last thing you want or need is pity. What you need, above all, is time and space.

The time wasn’t a problem. As he watched most of Liverpool’s 2019-20 title-winning season from the sidelines, recovering from an anterior cruciate ligament injury, Clyne had plenty of time to gather his thoughts. “I think I went through everything on Netflix,” he remembers. “Just duvet days, chilling at home watching movies and documentaries.”

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