Jurgen Klopp sends blunt message to Liverpool ahead of 2022/23

Jurgen Klopp has sent a candid message to Liverpool players ahead of the 2022/23 season.

Liverpool, led by Klopp, faced RB Leipzig in a friendly match on Thursday.

The Reds came away with a 5-0 win which saw Darwin Nunez score his first four goals for the club.

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Despite the emotional victory, Klopp cautioned that Liverpool are not anywhere near where they want to be physically:

“We need this time now,” Klopp said after the match. “We’re not close to where we want to be physically and with the weather and everything, it’s tough. Little Austria is good, we have to work to get through this, we have to work really hard and then it will be OK.

“I’m not sure if we’ll be OK against Salzburg because we’re playing right, but we’ll give it a try and the most important part of pre-season starts now.”

And about the same result, Klopp added: “I would have bought it [off you] In fact! Which is really cute. In the first half, some good moments, some less quality moments, less movement and we need to get used to how we play for 60, 70 or 90 minutes. The human body is like this but we will get used to it again.

After a 15-minute break [at half time] We played football again and I wanted us to be a little tougher on ourselves, it’s pre-season, but [I wanted them to] Move over and the second half came Hindo (Jordan Henderson) and Millie (James Milner) and they were lively as hell. Then we created chances.”

Liverpool face another pre-season match against RB Salzburg on Wednesday before facing Manchester City in the Community Shield on July 30.^{The tenth}.

The Reds then meet Strasbourg for their last friendly match of the summer a day later before their squad starts in 2022/23 against Fulham on August 6.^{The tenth}.