I Don’t Joke With The Fitness Of My Players – Klopp

Liverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp has come out to deny allegations that Trent Alexander-Arnold was forced back from injury. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, nobody is forcing anyone back from injury at Liverpool, and since he has been manager of the club, he has always taken his time with injuries.

Klopp added that Anfield is a high-performance area, so the fitness of players is not to be played with.

His words, “I got the news that there was a discussion that we might have forced Trent back because [he had] two setbacks.

It’s really unfortunate, nobody wants that and nobody’s doing that (forcing the player back). [There are] different cases, different scenarios, and, as long as I am here, we never forced anybody back and never will.

We work in a high-performance area where, if you had the same injury, you are fit after three days and [the player] is fit after four weeks because they have to sprint and stuff like this.

We always try to catch the earliest moment but unfortunately when we catch that moment, nobody speaks about it. Like with Macca (Alexis Mac Allister), or recently with Diogo (Diogo Jota), that’s a job we have to do. But the last decision is then always by the player and if we always listen only to the player then they would play after two weeks and then it’s a real problem.

So the boys were, at the moment when they played, they were fit. But the situation told us then differently because it happened again. We will never know if it would have happened anyway or if it just happened because there was something before. Very, very unlucky and unfortunate, absolutely, but I had that a couple of times in my time as a manager, not only here. It is not great, but nothing else.

It says nothing about the quality of anybody but in the world we are living in there is always [talk about] the medical department. We have to bring the boys as back as soon as possible but never sooner than they are ready.”

WOW.