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Liverpool Handed Injury Blow As Promising Youngster Needs Season-Ending Surgery

Liverpool's Brazilian youngster Allan will be returning from his loan spell in Cyprus early, after he was forced to undergo surgery to fix a problem with his shoulder.

The Liverpool midfielder has been on the season-long loan with Cypriot side Apollon Limassol, but according to Goal he now faces four months on the sidelines after this injury setback.

The 21-year-old joined Liverpool in the summer of 2015 for a fee of £500,000 from Brazilian side Internacional. Since his arrival at Anfield, Allan has been sent on four loan spells to Finland with

Seinäjoen Jalkapallokerho, Belgium with Sint-Truiden, Germany with Hertha Berlin and now Apollon Limassol.