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Joe Gomez is Liverpool’s longest-serving player(Image: CameraSport via Getty Images)<\/p>\nJoe Gomez has been on the books at Liverpool for over 10 years, but despite a successful career there will always be regrets about his injuriesJoe Gomez is Liverpool’s longest-serving player(Image: CameraSport via Getty Images)<\/p>\n
It won\u2019t have been an anniversary he\u2019d have celebrated, but last month marked 10 years since one of the most important moments of Joe Gomez\u2019s career<\/a>.<\/p>\n Signed from Charlton Athletic as an 18-year-old in the summer of 2015, Gomez had surprised everyone by holding down a place in Brendan Rodgers\u2019 Liverpool<\/a> team in the early weeks of the following season, showing plenty of promise even though the manager\u2019s time was ticking away.<\/p>\n When Jurgen Klopp<\/a> replaced the Northern Irishman in the October international break he was looking forward to working with someone who was establishing himself as one of best young English defenders in the Premier League. Then everything changed.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Liverpool are really missing Luis Diaz but I hope his former team-mate proves Arne Slot wrong<\/a>READ MORE: Liverpool star ‘invisible’ in scathing verdict as Alexis Mac Allister dream comes true<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cIt seems to be okay,\u201d was the view of England Under-21s manager Gareth Southgate after a stricken Gomez had to be taken off with 10 minutes remaining of his team\u2019s 3-0 win over Kazakhstan in Coventry. \u201cWe were a bit concerned at first but we\u2019re hopeful it\u2019s nothing too serious.\u201d<\/p>\n Southgate might later have become a knight of the realm, but he\u2019s no doctor. Gomez had in fact ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament and wouldn\u2019t play again for 14 months.<\/p>\n Incredibly, one day after Gomez\u2019s injury, Danny Ings would also rupture his ACL in Klopp\u2019s first Liverpool training session.<\/p>\n Ten years on, Ings finds himself at Sheffield United after spells with Southampton, Aston Villa and West Ham, showing diminishing returns through each spell despite his hard work.<\/p>\n Yet Gomez remains at Liverpool as Anfield\u2019s great survivor, and a Champions League and two-time Premier League winner. Bar the Europa League, he has won every competition he\u2019s played in for the club.<\/p>\n Recent changes have only further established Gomez as the longest-serving player at Liverpool, but there are times over the past year or so when it looked for all the world as though his Reds career was coming to an end.<\/p>\n Strong links with Brighton and AC Milan at the closure of the most recent transfer window eventually came to nothing, thanks in part to the delays and subsequent collapse of the Marc Guehi move.<\/p>\n Before that, back in Arne Slot\u2019s first Premier League game in charge at Ipswich last August, Gomez was left out of the squad as he explored his options over potential moves to Newcastle and Aston Villa.<\/p>\n In most cases players simply don\u2019t come back from that sort of thing. Usually either a club\u2019s determination to sell or a player\u2019s own ego comes to the fore and forces through transfers or periods of exile.<\/p>\n Blood Red – November 2025 issue on sale now<\/p>\n Dive into the heart of Liverpool FC with Blood Red, the ECHO\u2019s monthly magazine packed with exclusive interviews, expert analysis, and nostalgic stories. This edition features The Coral\u2019s James Skelly on his love for the Reds, Chris Kirkland\u2019s powerful mental health journey, and David James\u2019 take on Alisson\u2019s place among LFC legends.<\/p>\n Plus, tactical insights from Andy Dunn and Andrew Beasley, Kop banner creator Peter Carney, and interviews with celebrity fans Chris McAusland and Will Arnett. The ultimate read for every Liverpool supporter.<\/p>\n Order your copy online here!<\/a><\/p>\n As a case in point Raheem Sterling, whose Liverpool career overlapped with Gomez\u2019s for about three weeks in 2015, is remarkably still on Chelsea\u2019s books.<\/p>\n Yet with Gomez on each occasion, and indeed on others when he has been linked with moves away, there has never been any doubt that the south east Londoner – who is just as popular with fans as he is team-mates – would return to the fold as a valued member of the squad.<\/p>\n The question now though is should he be valued more highly, and is it time to seek that value elsewhere?<\/p>\n Having made a career-high 51 appearances in the 2023\/24 season – numbers which, thanks to his versatility, helped him force his way into Southgate\u2019s senior England squad for Euro 2024 – Gomez had begun life under Slot on the crest of a wave, only to quickly find himself cast as third choice behind Jarell Quansah and Ibrahima Konate on the list of Virgil van Dijk\u2019s potential centre-back partners.<\/p>\n Quansah\u2019s form and Konate\u2019s fitness would eventually see him move up that list, but after an impressive few weeks in November and December of last season – heralded by a superb display off the bench against Brighton – injury would strike again.<\/p>\n And injury is ultimately and unfortunately the watchword you have to keep returning to with Gomez.<\/p>\n His is a Liverpool career spanning over 10 years, but when you compare it to another player who spent a decade at Liverpool and suffered an ACL injury in Lucas Leiva, he has made almost 100 appearances fewer than the Brazilian.<\/p>\n Virgil van Dijk – yet another with an ACL injury in his past, but who signed two-and-a-half years after Gomez in January 2018 – is closing in on having played 100 games more than his 2019\/20 Premier League title winning partner.<\/p>\n It is tempting to wonder just what would have become of Gomez without that first injury in October 2015, and then a subsequent leg fracture at Burnley in December 2018, then most devastatingly of all a freak and damaging knee injury in England training – yep, overseen by Southgate again – in November 2020 .<\/p>\n Yet it speaks volumes about the esteem that Gomez is held in by supporters that every time he comes back from those blows you\u2019ll find those calling for him to get a run in the team.<\/p>\n With the Guehi deal by no means certain to be completed in January and concerns over Konate\u2019s long-term future, it remains to be seen what the future holds for Liverpool\u2019s great survivor.<\/p>\n Gomez is a player who has got off the canvas so often for the club and enjoyed the highest of highs after doing so, but the nagging doubt remains that injuries have robbed him of many more successes.<\/p>\n It has been 10 years of joy and pain, and we wait to see what happens next.<\/p>\n This article appears in the November edition of the Blood Red magazine – order your copy here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Liverpool knocks 50% off kits and merch<\/p>\n This article contains affiliate links, we will receive a commission on any sales we generate from it. 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