The Netherlands international made his senior Reds debut back in 2016 and registered 30 appearances in total. While first-team opportunities were rare towards the end, he always remained professional and left the club for Bayer Leverkusen in January with everybody’s best wishes for the future.
Unfortunately, while making a seventh appearance for his new club during a Bundesliga match against Freiburg on Sunday, Fosu-Mensah was forced off at half-time and later confirmed to Dutch football news outlet Voetbalzone he had suffered a cruciate ligament tear.
Bayer Leverkusen have since confirmed the injury themselves...
ud83dudde3 Peter Bosz on @tfosumensah and @JeremieFrimpong : “Timothy is now being examined, but unfortunately we have to assume that it is a bad injury.