5 days after the primary group of gamers returned for pre-season, Mo Salah and Wataru Endo reported to the AXA Coaching Centre for the primary time this summer time.
Arne Slot kickstarted pre-season on Friday with a small group of gamers, with health exams on the agenda earlier than a 30-man squad assembled on Sunday for ball work on the outside pitches.
Salah and Endo had been notable absentees all through, having been given a barely prolonged break after competing for Egypt and Japan quickly after the conclusion of the 2023/24 season.
Liverpool’s No. 11 featured for 180 minutes and Endo simply 62 in mid-June, however after a taxing home season that noticed them each characteristic within the Reds’ prime 10 for minutes performed, a break was wanted.
The 2 have been off for near 4 weeks, and have now bought caught into work with their new head coach and members of his workers for the primary time.
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The duo’s presence in coaching boosts the variety of senior gamers current – with a lot of Slot’s key males nonetheless on obligation on the Euros and Copa America.
Alexis Mac Allister is the primary Liverpool participant to have booked his place within the remaining of Copa America with Argentina, with considered one of Colombia’s Luis Diaz or Uruguay’s Darwin Nunez set to hitch him.
In the meantime, both England, who embrace Trent Alexander-Arnold and Joe Gomez within the squad, or Netherlands, who’ve Virgil van Dijk, Ryan Gravenberch and Cody Gakpo, will attain the Euros remaining.
Why many key gamers can be late again
Ibrahima Konate was knocked out with France on Tuesday evening, and with no third-placed playoff held on the Euros his post-season break will now start.
That won’t be the case for whoever is knocked out of the Colombia vs. Uruguay semi-final on Wednesday, nonetheless, as they’re then set to face Canada on Friday evening.
Alisson, Diogo Jota, Andy Robertson, Dominik Szoboszlai and goalkeeper Vitezslav Jaros, in the meantime, are already on their summer time breaks and can both report again on the finish of this month or early August.
Gamers can be granted a minimal of three weeks off after the top of worldwide obligation, which means many might miss the majority of Liverpool’s pre-season tour of the US.
