Origi forced to wear a bigger Liverpool shirt because of muscle increase

The 20-year-old has reaped the benefits of a weight training programme since moving to Anfield - but must now wear a bigger kit

Jurgen Klopp has revealed that Divock Origi needs to wear a bigger Liverpool kit after the striker put on five kilograms of muscle.

The 20-year-old has made 27 appearances for Liverpool this season and has scored three goals in his last two appearances.

But in order to adjust to the Premier League’s physicality, Origi, who was signed from Lille, has been placed on a weight training programme since the start of the season.

“You see what confidence does. I think Divock said himself, when he came here everything was different for him,” said Klopp.

“He is still a very young player and coming here, he knows everybody’s expectations are very high because he is a highly-rated striker. He had a lot of little injuries. When I came here he was not fit and afterwards he had one or two small things.

“Now the most important thing for him is to stay fit. In the last injury, he used it for a little bit of body strength as everyone can see. Now he has to wear another shirt and another kit!

“I’m not sure if it was five kilos [of muscle], but it was a little bit more. If he’d done the same training, nothing would happen – you need to be a talent and he is that, obviously. He is in a good way.

“He sees it the same way – he is on his way, he is at the start and now we have to work together.”