{"id":15329,"date":"2025-07-22T11:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T11:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/15329\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T11:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T11:33:08","slug":"why-jayden-danns-was-left-out-of-liverpool-pre-season-tour-squad-liverpool-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/15329\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Jayden Danns was left out of Liverpool pre-season tour squad – Liverpool FC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jayden Danns<\/a> has not travelled with the Liverpool squad for their tour of Hong Kong and Japan, with the striker initially having been scheduled to fly.<\/p>\n

Last week, This Is Anfield brought the news that Danns was set to join the first team out in Asia having been a consistent feature in pre-season training.<\/p>\n

But when Arne Slot<\/a> named his 29-man squad \u2013 soon to be 30 with the addition of Hugo Ekitike<\/a> \u2013 for the friendlies against AC Milan<\/a> and Yokohama F. Marinos, the 19-year-old was a notable absentee.<\/p>\n

That comes with Danns having been left out as a precaution, with the club deeming it more beneficial that he instead continues working on his fitness.<\/p>\n

This Is Anfield understands the striker will stay at the AXA Training Centre and should still be involved later in pre-season.<\/p>\n

\"LIVERPOOL,<\/p>\n

He is considered not far off in terms of availability, and with Liverpool due to play LaLiga side Athletic Club in back-to-back friendlies at Anfield on August 4 it seems likely he will be included for those games.<\/p>\n

Danns has attracted interest in another loan deal this season \u2013 not least from Sunderland<\/a>, having failed to have an appearance for the Black Cats after joining in January due to a long-standing back issue.<\/p>\n

But Slot is a keen admirer of the teenager and the prospect of him staying as a first-team option cannot be ruled out at this stage.<\/p>\n

Liverpool will be acutely aware of the risks of exposing Danns too quickly, particularly after the issues he faced with his growth while progressing through the youth ranks.<\/p>\n

While in the U16s squad he missed around eight months due to knee problems related to Osgood-Schlatter\u2019s disease, seeing him grow 10 inches in that time from 5\u20192\u2033 to 6\u2032.<\/p>\n

\"LIVERPOOL,<\/p>\n

The increased workload in recent seasons, as he made a swift rise from U18s to U21s and then with game time for the first team, appears to have taken its toll too with his recent back injury.<\/p>\n

A careful approach is understandable, then, with medical staff eager to avoid any gambles when it comes to Danns\u2019 long-term fitness.<\/p>\n

With the addition of Ekitike, Slot will have three clear options for the central striker role in Asia with Darwin Nunez<\/a> and Luis Diaz<\/a> also available.<\/p>\n

However both Nunez and Diaz are attracting concrete interest and the likelihood is that at least one will leave before the end of the transfer window.<\/p>\n

* You can follow all Liverpool\u2019s pre-season friendlies live with All Red Video<\/a>, the new video offering from the club that replaces LFCTV. Purchase All Red Video here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jayden Danns has not travelled with the Liverpool squad for their tour of Hong Kong and Japan, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,134,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-15329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}