Liverpool will play 7 games in just 23 days
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp issued a statement of intent by bolstering the squad during the summer transfer window, signing 4 new players and reinforcing the particular weak areas. They finished 25 points adrift of champions Manchester City and the manager is keen to to mount a Premier League title charge this season.
He splashed out over £170 million to secure the signings of midfielder Naby Keita from RB Leipzig, versatile Fabinho from Monaco, winger Xherdan Shaqiri from Stoke City and goalkeeper Alisson Becker from Roma.
The Reds have begun the current campaign excellently, winning all the Premier League fixtures so far and are only 1 of the 3 teams to have 100 percent record. They have scored 9 goals and only have conceded 1, sitting on top of the table ahead of Chelsea.
The Anfield Outfit will play 7 games in just 23 games, starting with a trip to Tottenham on Saturday and is followed by Champions League encounters with PSG and Napoli, the start of the Carabao Cup and Premier League clashes with Southampton, Chelsea and Manchester City.
Klopp has admitted that he will need to carefully monitor the condition of his players and will be required to utilise the depth of his squad.
The boss told in the pre-match press conference as quoted by club’s official website: “Of course, we have to. We will see exactly how we can do it.
“It is a big misunderstanding that we will plan for the game tomorrow and [also] think about the game after and the game after. That’s too complicated; you have to go into the next game and see who you can choose. That’s it – you always try to have your best team.
“It is clear, with numbers [from] games and all that stuff – we get so much information after a game, which you [the media] don’t have – you see how players react in different situations. We have to do that, we have to rotate – [but] I don’t know if we’d call it ‘rotation’.
“The first three games were the same line-up and then we changed one position. It is to gain the points, have a good start, to create the basis and all that stuff, it is not about looking at how is he and how he is. We used the players who had the longest pre-season pretty much; apart from Bobby, who came pretty late, they all had at least three weeks. The two up front, plus Bobby, and then all the others had a normal break pretty much.
“That’s good, they had a normal break and then started pre-season with us, so they were the most stable players in the squad and that’s why we used them. After four weeks, when the fitness levels looked quite OK – it got better and better for one player or another – then we had to send them away [on international duty].
“Now they have come back – the last ones came back yesterday – and today we train, then we make a line-up for tomorrow. Mauricio Pochettino has the same issue to get ready for the game tomorrow, that’s how it is. We all have to make constantly the best of what we’ve got.”
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