After missing the Moscow trip due to illness, Granit Xhaka may also
return to the squad whilst Jack Wilshere may be given a rest, after picking up a knock in Russia.
Not exact matches
Some first team players however will not be
returning until the very end of pre-season training,
whilst the likes of Giroud, Ramsey, Ozil and Koscielny are not expected
to join up with the
squad until little less than a week before our Premier League campaign kicks off.
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whilst Andre Ayew and Andy King are cup - tied, but Leon Britton has
returned to the
squad.
However, the injury didn't seem
to hamper him too much as when he
returned, he picked up right where he left off and helped the Reds
to a League Cup and Europa League double,
whilst also being named in the Premier League
squad of the season.
With all of Liverpool's competitors strengthening, investing, and pushing onwards, new competitors emerging, and transfer targets being of a questionable level or rebutting Liverpool FC's approaches, all
whilst the club twiddles its proverbial thumbs — expecting Klopp
to deliver on his promise with his current
squad — is the prospect of
returning Liverpool back
to the top level of English and European football the greatest challenge in world football?
He lacks experience at the highest level, with only one Champions League final appearance and two Bundesliga titles
to his name when compared
to say Mourinho and Guardiola; and it is one thing competing with Jupp Heynckes, and then Guardiola one at a time, but competing with Mourinho, Conte, Guardiola, Wenger and Pochettino simultaneously,
whilst they have
squad depth and quality that makes a mockery of Liverpool's, and an inability on Liverpool's behalf
to secure players that will improve the team
to the level of the competitors makes the challenge of top four a remote one, and the ultimate challenge of
returning Liverpool
to the highest level in English and European football minuscule.