The Reds were only a shadow of their usual self, as the club failed to live up to its recent high standards last season.
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Liverpool will be keen to bounce back from last season’s disappointments when they begin the new campaign. The Reds were only a shadow of their usual self, as the club failed to live up to its recent high standards. Jurgen Klopp’s side missed out on Champions League football after failing to finish in the top four of the Premier League table last season. They also suffered early exits in cup competitions, which denied them from winning a trophy.
However, that is the past now, as Jurgen Klopp and his boys will be eager to put things right in the coming season, which will start next month. Speaking about how the pre-season has gone till now, Klopp told Liverpoolfc.com, “Very good. Very good. We had not a slow start, but a start with a small group on Saturday and since Tuesday everybody is in. There are still a couple of injured players, of course, but everybody is here now and really looking good. The sessions are good, the intensity is good, mood is good, the weather was interesting – we’ve had pretty much everything already since we are back! But nothing to complain [about].”
The Liverpool manager also gave an update on who all is there and who is not during the pre-season preparations. “Nice. We are missing players still – Curtis is not here, Harvey is not here and then Stefan and Thiago are injured and a couple of others – but it was good. Quality is good, it is good fun. We are all full of energy, I think we can say that. It was a good break, it was an important break as well, but it was a long enough one as well. Now we are back and the boys are really ready to work, that’s the first impression I got,” he elaborated.
The Premier League club has already made some exciting new signings, Alexis Mac Allister and Dominik Szoboszlai in this window. Talking about them, Klopp said, “Very happy! Two very good players. I was immediately thinking about nicknames and I thought it would be a great nickname for Alexis… Gary [McAllister]! He plays pretty good football, obviously, the same as Dom.”
“It was pretty clear in the moment we signed them, the public reception was pretty good, internally it was outstanding, the boys know about football so they were immediately like, ‘Oh my God…’ so that’s really good. Now they are here and didn’t take long, let me say, to impress on the pitch as well, so that’s good. How I said, some changes, Trent cut his hair – [back to] the most successful haircut in his career, so he sacrificed the cool look for success, I like that!”
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