Jeremie Frimpong has admitted to being left bewildered by this season’s muscle injuries that have “never happened” before in his career.
Before joining Liverpool, Frimpong had only suffered one injury that saw him miss any real length of time in his career – an ankle injury that kept him out for two months in 2022.
However, since arriving at Anfield last summer, he has missed 25 games for club and country with hamstring issues.
It is a situation that left the 25-year-old shaking his head while telling the Telegraph: “I’ve been faced with a lot of injuries.
LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND - Wednesday, January 28, 2026: Liverpool's Jeremie Frimpong walks off the pitch with an injury during the UEFA Champions League match between Liverpool FC and Qaraba? FK at Anfield. Liverpool won 6-0. (Photo by David Rawcliffe/Propaganda)
“Normally I don’t get injured. The only time I had a lay-off before was for a surgery after a bad tackle. There was nothing I could do about that.
“But for it to happen to myself, hamstrings!? It’s never happened in my career.
“I’ve had three injuries and, on top of that, the team is not doing so well, like we should do.”
For a player whose strength lies in his explosive speed, it might be surprising that Frimpong isn’t prone to muscle problems, but until this season they haven’t been an issue.
The three injuries referred to by Frimpong came against Bournemouth in August, Eintracht Frankfurt in October and Qarabag in January – the latter was originally reported as a groin problem.
Frimpong continued: “There have been a lot of challenges. If we could have won one of the FA Cup or the Champions League, it wouldn’t have been as bad.
BRIGHTON & HOVE, ENGLAND - Saturday, March 21, 2026: Liverpool's Jeremie Frimpong with an injury during the FA Premier League match between Brighton & Hove Albion FC and Liverpool FC at the AMEX Community Stadium. (Photo by David Rawcliffe/Propaganda)
“How have I dealt with it? I’ve got my family; my girlfriend. You have to understand we are human. We’ve got feelings as well.
“When bad things happen, we think about it. The moment you go home, you think: ‘Oh’ – you have got to do something to stay away from going into your own mind.
“So you need your family, your loved ones and that is what has got me through the difficult times this season.
“I’m not going to lie, it’s been hard, but when I was down I had people with me who made me be with them. They distract me so I’m not just there sitting around looking at nothing.”
Jeremie Frimpong’s injuries – why are they happening?
LONDON, ENGLAND - Saturday, December 20, 2025: Liverpool's substitutes (L-R) Jeremie Frimpong and Alexander Isak during the pre-match warm-up before the FA Premier League match between Tottenham Hotspur FC and Liverpool FC at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. (Photo by David Rawcliffe/Propaganda)
Injury problems aren’t a new thing. While Liverpool boasted an excellent record in keeping players fit last season, the year before Jurgen Klopp famously had to field a very young team in the Carabao Cup final due to an injury crisis.
Many attributed injuries under Klopp due to the high intensity of his football and the hard work the German put his players through.
When Arne Slot arrived, he implemented a new style with the help of lead physical performance coach Ruben Peeters.
“In the Jurgen era, the intensity was honestly ridiculous,” former Liverpool fitness coach Jordan Fairclough explained to The Redmen TV.
LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND - Tuesday, January 27, 2026: Liverpool's Jeremie Frimpong during a training session at the AXA Training Centre ahead of the UEFA Champions League match between Liverpool FC and Qaraba? FK. (Photo by David Rawcliffe/Propaganda)
“The Jurgen era was high intensity. It was ruthlessness in terms of training demands, routines, schedules, training times.
“We won trophies left, right and centre, job done, but it was tough. There were many many periods throughout those years when myself and other coaches and other players would have had 10,12, 14, 15, 18 days in a row without having a day off due to match demands.
“The intensity of that era was unique to us. I don’t remember seeing many other teams that had a schedule similar.”
Fairclough then explained how Slot and his staff often used fitness data in determining elements of team selection and rotation.
“In pre-season with Arne, so my last pre-season, he was even more receptive to it than Jurgen was,” said the fitness coach.
“We had iPads at the side of the training pitch which had like the players’ distances and speeds that they had ran in the session so far.
“One thing that we did slightly different under Arne was we really used that data live to pull players out of sessions if they had ‘done enough’.
“But that was new to a couple of players, so a couple of players might have been pulled from training and afterwards they’re like, ‘What’s all that about?’
“You explain the reasons why and the purpose. Unfortunately, you can reference the high number of injuries and re-injuries we have had in the past, where we weren’t able to use that practice.
“And they start to understand it and I think that pre-season at least and that start of the season that I was there, we had one or two soft tissue injuries, which in previous years it might have been three or four, one re-injury.
“It worked.”
While the methods may have been effective last season, there are signs, through players like Frimpong, that a lack of intensity may now be having a negative impact.
Without being a sports scientist with all the data, it is difficult to know where the blame, if any, lies.
As time goes on, though, the patterns of player injuries should give us an indication of whether Frimpong’s injuries are simply bad luck or part of a wider problem.