Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp, however, stated that no "final decision" has been made in this regard as the Reds prepare for pre-season.
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Jurgen Klopp has opened up about the possibility of some young players departing the club on loan as he spoke about Liverpool’s plans for their training camp in Austria. Last season, the Reds managed to squeeze into the Champions League places at the last minute and will be trying to build on that impressive late run in the new campaign. Their stay in Austria includes four friendly fixtures – 30-minute mini-games against FC Wacker Innsbruck and VfB Stuttgart on July 20, an hour-long clash with FSV Mainz 05 three days later, and a full 90 minutes against Hertha BSC.
Klopp was asked whether some of the players will be moving out on loans or maybe permanently in this window. He responded, “I don’t know. With a few of the younger ones, maybe we have to think about going out on loan, stuff like this, is it the right moment? There’s no final decision yet. These first few days, it’s not the time to think about that because that’s the moment when they all can show up. I prefer to get positively surprised of some of the boys where I think, ‘Oh my God, I didn’t expect him being that close already’.”
“We have so [much] movement in the squad if you want, there’s so many players who could step up – for different reasons, the last season was maybe not theirs but that doesn’t mean from now on it will always go backwards. No, there’s a chance to make the right steps in the right direction. They were close to the first team but didn’t play often enough. So, the door is open. A lot of midfielders not here, so come on, take the chance and play the best football you are able to do and then we immediately get options – it’s always like having new signings,” he was quoted as saying by the club’s website.
Jurgen Klopp is also of the opinion that the current transfer window has so far been “calm”. “I’m really not in a rush about that. If somebody wants to leave, he can come to me and can tell me and then I think about it. Nobody came so far, so obviously no rush from the players’ side as well. The market anyway is a really calm one in the moment, I think. There was [Jadon] Sancho and maybe somebody else, OK, Konate we did that early, but it’s a really calm window. Let’s see what happens and all of these things, but in the moment, everybody has the chance to impress me and I hope they do,” he added.
The Liverpool manager also spoke about the players who have benefited from the summer break and those returning from participating in the Euros and Copa America. “Mo (Salah) had seven weeks, Sadio (Mane) didn’t because he played for Senegal, so I think he had around about five weeks. But it is incredibly long – they are used to two-and-a-half weeks in the summer. Which, [and] I said it plenty of times, is not enough,” he stated.
“But now the guys from the Euros and the guys from the Copa have around about three weeks. They have three weeks, that’s what we can give them and that’s what we will. Then they have not a long pre-season but they didn’t have a long break, so that’s absolutely OK. So they get as long as we could; we squeezed everything out again for them that they can really have the proper rest they need.”
