Liverpool will proceed their preparations for 2022/23 into the season, with an extra pleasant now confirmed amid harm updates on three gamers.

Klopp “extends” Liverpool’s pre-season

Assume the friendlies are practically throughout? Assume once more!

Jurgen Klopp has immediately confirmed the Reds will “lengthen” their pre-season into the brand new marketing campaign, with one other observe match to happen after their Premier League opener in opposition to Fulham.

Such is the tight schedule this summer time, the Liverpool boss says he has no possibility however to proceed his workforce’s preparations for an additional gruelling 12 months into the early levels of the season.

The extra pleasant will happen behind closed doorways on Sunday, August 7, with the Echo claiming Aston Villa would be the opponents.

It’s not the primary time Liverpool could have performed Villa in such a match, having additionally executed so in the same pleasant this time final 12 months, someday after their opening day victory at Norwich.

The sport will give those that don’t function in opposition to Fulham an opportunity to get extra precious minutes into their legs.

ALL the friendlies!

Triple harm replace, with Alisson nonetheless out

• Alisson has now been dominated out of Liverpool’s Group Defend conflict in opposition to Man Metropolis on Saturday, however Klopp says he shall be prepared for the journey to Craven Cottage per week later.

• Caoimhin Kelleher can be nonetheless absent, having missed the journeys to Asia and Austria this summer time. The Athletic‘s James Pearce has now revealed it’s a groin harm that’s preserving him sidelined.

• Diogo Jota is one other who is ready for an extended spell within the therapy room, after Klopp instructed reporters on Thursday that his restoration “will take some time.” Removed from perfect!

3 issues immediately: The Reds aren’t executed in Austria… but

• Liverpool once more skilled in Austria immediately and can fly residence on Friday. Virgil van Dijk‘s potential centre-back companion in opposition to Metropolis is among the seven issues we’ve realized from this 12 months’s journey to Saalfelden.

• Klopp’s pre-Group Defend press convention was carried out from the camp by way of Zoom. His feedback on Fabio Carvalho are considered one of 5 issues we picked out from his newest media duties.

• Two Liverpool transfers could possibly be set to undergo when the workforce arrive again on Merseyside on Friday.

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• Roberto Firmino continues to be linked with a transfer to Juventus, however one Liverpool journalist claims the membership have no intention of letting him go.

• Klopp has hailed Firmino because the “coronary heart and soul” of his Liverpool facet, however might solely provide a non-committal “we are going to see” on the striker’s future.

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• Everton have accomplished the signing of Burnley winger Dwight McNeil for a price within the area of £20 million. The place’s left-wing prodigy Anthony Gordon going to play?!

• Luis Suarez has rejoined his first membership Nacional on a free switch in his native Uruguay. A number of former Liverpool gamers are on the transfer this summer time!

• Barcelona are set to wrap up a deal to signal Chelsea goal Jules Kounde, making him their fourth signing of the summer time after Franck Kessie, Andreas Christensen and Robert Lewandowski. Good enterprise?

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