I have zero knowledge of course but wonder if we did something different to account for the world cup?
Behind doors friendly with Villa cancelled today, on account of our long list of injuries. Bad news for a few of the players on the periphery who haven't been able to get match practice in (eg Tsimikas).Rightly, noone's arsed about performance during pre-season - all that matters is getting people fit and ready for the season ahead (after the unprecentedly gruelling and compressed season just gone).Early signs, given the current long injury list (and other injuries that kept some out during it, like Allison and Tsimikas), are that it's not gone well. No doubt most of it will be down to simple fortune, but as I said in the injuries thread you can be sure our experts will be investigating if there was anything they could have done to better reduce the chances of these injuries. Can't remember much of our other pre-seasons under Klopp - is this the worst we've had in terms of experiencing injury disruption during it, as well as the long list of players out in the first week of the season?
If he's being asked to head the ball too frequently - which isn't exactly his specialty - it could affect his ear and cause an infection. Especially if the ball hits him on the ear directly.
Really don’t see the issue, the injuries are either to pretty injury prone players (Ox, Thiago, seemingly Jones) or just impact ones. Doesn’t particularly scream that we’ve had some nightmare pre-season because we went to Asia.
Good chance for us to get some players back from injury.
Singapore again?https://www.straitstimes.com/sport/football/liverpool-set-to-headline-european-football-clubs-pre-season-tour-to-singapore
You're all too fucking serious, the lot of you. Relax, we don't really matter. Oh, and we should have an in's and out's topic, stickied.
Jurgen Klopp has revealed that Liverpool will have a training camp in Germany in July as they gear up for the 2023-24 season. Klopp will give each member of his squad at least three weeks off with pre-season training scheduled to start at Kirkby on July 8 with Liverpool’s international contingent reporting back three days later.
https://twitter.com/JamesPearceLFC/status/1650977139225686017
Is there AFCON or any other international tournaments this summer?
No, there are the UEFA Nations League finals (I think of our players only Van Dijk will be involved) and some qualifiers/friendlies, but it should all be done by mid-June.
Euro U21's. Elliot, Jones should get picked, not sure about anyone else?
Leicester Hope their Far East fans are more pleasant than the local ones.
Why are we playing a championship side pre season. We should’ve swerved that game
We're going to a place called Donaueschingen in Germany for the 10 days training camp before we head off to Singapore. Apparently it's the place Kloppo used to take his Dortmund teams usually for camps.
