Jurgen Klopp feels that too much is expected of his players in today’s game.
A little about the topic
The Liverpool manager says he doesn’t want to complain about the early start of the upcoming PL season, but the head coach says more people in football should be talking about the demands the players face. Liverpool’s campaign kicks off on Saturday with the Community Shield game against Man City, but will continue with pre-season after that. The Reds will play a friendly against Strasbourg the day after the clash with Manchester City and Klopp has said there will be another a day after their first game of the 2022-23 PL season against Fulham next week.
What did Jurgen Klopp say?
Jurgen Klopp admits next week won’t be normal for the FA Cup and Carabao Cup winners, telling reporters they should extend their pre-season for a season, but most teams will. They won’t have a normal pre-season week between Man City and Fulham, according to Klopp, but they will do more than they would during a normal week during the season, like the five to six weeks usually when they’re still out of the Champions League. and they have a regular week, Saturday to Saturday, Sunday to Sunday, whatever.
But they’re used to it and Klopp doesn’t have time to delve into it today. If they ask him this question, according to Klopp it looks like a single groan or a lone groan in the corner saying what players should do, international players don’t have enough breaks, which Jurgen thinks they all agree on, but the only one who talks about it.
Jurgen Klopp doesn’t read the papers but not enough people talk about it, the pre-season is usually too short but that’s why they extend it into the season. The German says it doesn’t help for the first games, but it helps in the long run, and that’s actually the idea.