Klopp on Liverpool injury latest ahead of FA Cup tie with Southampton
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00:00 Why don't you have a seat in the edges?
00:02 HE CHUCKLES
00:04 - Can we? - Sure.
00:08 Jürgen, I suppose we should start with, who have you got available to face Southampton?
00:13 I don't know yet. Exactly.
00:16 What I know is that Ryan's not available,
00:21 besides all the others who are not available.
00:24 Erm...
00:28 The ligament injury could have been much worse,
00:33 but bad enough for being ruled out for this game and the next game.
00:40 Yeah, we'll see.
00:43 So we need miracles with a few players,
00:48 so that's why I don't want to rule out for too long!
00:52 But it's touch and go with a lot of players,
00:56 but the boys who are not available for the final,
01:01 like David Mo, Dom, we have to see what they can do today.
01:10 Vatao got a proper knock as well, there we have to see as well.
01:19 So, yeah, I wouldn't say it's much improved since Sunday, but that's how it is.
01:24 How difficult a selection are you facing then?
01:29 I'd imagine you may have to protect some of the other players as well,
01:33 because Harvey was limping after the final,
01:36 maybe you need to manage Conor Bradley's workload,
01:40 do you even need to look at resting Kelleher as well?
01:43 Yeah, in an idle world, you would think about these kind of things,
01:50 but we obviously don't live in an idle world,
01:54 and that means... I didn't make the line-up yet,
01:58 so I still have two and a half hours' time until we train,
02:04 no, until we have the meeting, and then we train after that, so three hours.
02:08 So we will see how that...
02:12 When the players arrive, then they get checked.
02:15 Yesterday was kind of a massive recovery day
02:18 and appreciation day for winning the League Cup,
02:24 so only the very young boys trained yesterday,
02:30 had a proper session, all the others recovered.
02:32 Today we have a left-footed session, we need to have a session,
02:35 and it's the only one before the game,
02:37 so when I get all the information and the players arrive here,
02:42 I can look in their eyes and see who might be ready, who's not ready,
02:48 and then I will make a line-up, and in the end it will be...
02:51 I hope, I'm pretty positive about that, it will be a decent line-up.
02:57 Let me say it like this, what an atmosphere can do,
03:04 we realise now quite a few times,
03:09 but it would be really helpful if we could create something special on Wednesday night,
03:13 I know I ask that quite a lot, but it's a tricky time,
03:18 but somehow, anyway, pretty positive,
03:24 and we would like to keep doing that, but we need our people for that,
03:28 there's no other chance, there's only one advantage we can have tomorrow night,
03:32 and that's Anfield, and that's what we need.
03:34 Just a thought, I'm celebrating with your people again,
03:37 because there's talk of a parade at the end of the season,
03:40 but just aside from this game, what are your thoughts on the possibility
03:44 of celebrating already one piece of silverware at the end of the season with a parade,
03:47 and it would also be a farewell to yourself as well.
03:50 Yeah, that's one part which is not so cool, that it could be seen as that,
03:56 I don't think that makes sense, but besides that,
03:59 trophy parades, I am the biggest supporter of trophy parades, I love that.
04:03 But I don't decide that, people might be surprised,
04:09 but I don't decide that, and these kind of things probably have to be prepared
04:14 from different points of view, but it's not my business, I'm not in that.
04:18 But if there's a parade, I will be on the bus, no doubt about that!
04:26 LAUGHTER
04:28 Thank you.
04:29 Hi, Jürgen, after the euphoria of winning a cup final at Wembley,
04:34 you've only got three days now until the next game,
04:37 is it difficult, is there a job to do to bring everyone back down again?
04:41 No, the back down is no problem, that's really no problem,
04:43 it's just you want to take it, you want to take the positive feeling,
04:46 you want to take the vibe, you want to take all of that,
04:48 no, that's not a problem, the problem is the lack of recovery time, that's a problem.
04:52 Besides that, there are no problems.
04:55 No, the boys love playing football, obviously,
04:58 we all could see the boys love digging incredibly deep to grind the result out somehow,
05:05 everybody saw that as well.
05:08 So, strange one, we all know how the world is,
05:13 and everybody says it's Liverpool against Southampton,
05:16 and Liverpool is a massive favourite, I think, whatever people say,
05:22 anyway, not too important, but that's not the case,
05:25 we need to find a team who is competitive and then we will fight for it.
05:29 Obviously we all got a really good taste of how Wembley feels on a day like this,
05:38 we had all different experiences there, we lost there, we won there,
05:42 it's a nice stadium anyway, but when you win it, it's a completely different place.
05:47 So it's not that we don't want to go there again, it's not about us,
05:53 if we can decide it we go, but for that we have to win tomorrow and a lot of other games,
06:01 but now for tomorrow we just have to find out who we can add up and then we go.
06:06 I said before, and that's the truth, as long as we have 11 players,
06:09 and we will have 11, we will go for it.
06:12 And everybody who wants to follow or push us in that direction is absolutely welcome.
06:20 And it will be the third time you've played the Championship side in the Cups this season,
06:24 you've played Norwich and Leicester so far,
06:27 and like Southampton, three teams are looking to be Premier League teams again,
06:30 what have you made of the quality of the opposition when you played them?
06:34 I loved the Championship, I watched it so often, I watched it last week.
06:38 Leeds-Leicester.
06:40 I think there was a Bundesliga game on as well, I tried to watch that,
06:45 but then I went to Leicester Leeds and it was, wow.
06:49 The Championship improved over the last...
06:52 I don't know exactly how it was nine years ago,
06:54 to be honest, I'm not sure I watched it from the beginning,
06:57 but the footballers played that intensely in the Championship,
07:00 it was absolutely insane.
07:02 I saw West Brom playing recently, a real football-playing idea,
07:06 Leicester obviously, Southampton obviously, a real football-playing idea.
07:11 I don't think I saw Ipswich, but they obviously do well as well,
07:17 so the league is incredibly difficult.
07:22 We have a lot of games in the Premier League,
07:25 but the Championship obviously has a few more.
07:27 And quite impressive what's happening there,
07:31 really good coaches with really good players, really good clubs.
07:35 Of course, we played them, and we played all three home games, yeah.
07:43 That helps. I don't want to see the games when we would have played at Leicester
07:49 or at Norwich, where we had the big advantage of Anfield,
07:53 so that was helpful in these games, and we need that tomorrow as well.
07:58 I cannot respect it more, what's done there, especially at Southampton,
08:02 but they are now not in the best result moment,
08:06 and have an important game on Saturday again.
08:11 I don't know exactly how he's weighing it up, the colleague,
08:15 I don't know him, just like the way his team plays football.
08:19 So we will see, but before a game you always have a chance,
08:26 so we never have more, so that's what we will try to take.
08:32 Jürgen, after Sunday there was a lot of praise for the young players,
08:37 and rightly so for the roles they played,
08:40 I'm just wondering, is the challenge for them now,
08:43 they've done it over that short period of time,
08:46 and they've also been brought into a stronger team,
08:50 is the challenge for them now, maybe tomorrow night,
08:53 to be able to do it for a longer period in a team which is maybe not as strong?
08:57 First and foremost, I don't have to show anything.
09:01 I know what you mean, but it's easily misunderstood.
09:07 The story of Sunday was one of the best football stories I've ever heard of.
09:14 It's 100 per cent right, Chelsea was younger than us,
09:19 that's a different project, but it's not about that,
09:23 we don't compare it, the public might do that, we don't do that.
09:26 But our boys played in youth teams, U21, stuff like this,
09:33 and only came up recently and trained with us for a long time,
09:37 and that is an absolute nil experience, but a lot of talent,
09:41 and they just showed that. That's the situation we have to create for the boys,
09:45 there's nothing, if you play more of them now tomorrow,
09:48 and from the start or whatever, then we'll have a look,
09:51 and if we don't, then it's not as good as I thought after Sunday,
09:56 that would be horrendous. There's absolutely no pressure,
10:00 all these boys have to do is really enjoy what they are doing,
10:04 like I said, they have to defend like men, otherwise you cannot play.
10:09 But with the ball, the best thing, and when you are 35 you should play like a kid.
10:16 They are not 35 obviously, but they should do that as well,
10:20 and I saw them doing that and it obviously helped, it gave confidence.
10:24 So many things you cannot buy, you usually need years for,
10:29 getting these kind of experiences, now they had it in a flash.
10:34 So, it's all good. I don't know, but it's possible,
10:40 and if a few of them have to start, that's absolutely clear, we don't know it yet,
10:44 and if they do, they will do the job and enjoy it,
10:48 and we all have to help them with celebrating the right things and not...
10:55 I don't know what is the word for it, not moaning about the wrong things.
11:01 So, like, "Oh, please don't do that, that's horrible, 60,000 people."
11:07 And that's really not good. I can tell you, I played,
11:12 and only 12,000 people when I played did that,
11:15 and I felt it from here to my toes, that's not too cool.
11:20 But besides that, it's a good moment, so it's actually a very bad moment,
11:25 because there are so many injuries and it's not good,
11:28 but what we could do so far, and that's why I love the Luton game so much,
11:32 that's why I love the game on Sunday night so much,
11:35 is just ignore who we are missing, we just ignored it as much as we can,
11:39 and just thought about how we can set up a team who is still difficult to play,
11:45 and that's what we will do again, and then we will see.
11:48 Jürgen, have you got any clarity yet on Thiago in terms of the timescale for him?
11:53 Yeah, there's no timescale.
11:55 Did you hope he would play again next season?
11:58 No.
12:00 I don't know, to be honest.
12:06 There are a couple of things, but it's what he has to do now,
12:10 from a medical point of view, and I don't know if that will mean he can play again.
12:15 That's not a short-term thing, that's why I'm not really in the subject,
12:19 so it's not that he might be in training in two weeks or stuff like this,
12:22 so that's why I'm not 100 per cent in it.
12:25 I can't say more about it, to be honest.
12:27 Is that his hip again?
12:29 Yes. I'm not sure it's the same, but yeah, the region is the same.
12:33 Just on Stefan as well...
12:35 Stefan is...
12:37 That's one of these things.
12:40 I had lunch here and saw him training.
12:44 I sat there and thought, "Why is he not playing?"
12:49 LAUGHTER
12:51 So, he's obviously gaining fitness now, he's running around like, "Wow."
12:58 He's doing everything, but not bad.
13:00 He didn't get green light yet for us, for the team training,
13:03 and there's nobody in this building who wants to hold him back,
13:06 so there might be some reasons.
13:08 He's completely pain-free, which is obviously the most important thing.
13:11 All checks we made, scans again, bone looks good,
13:16 that's all fine when he's just doing what he's doing.
13:19 Now we have to make sure that when we use him again in normal training...
13:23 Because the difficulty of football is such a complex sport for the body,
13:30 not only that you have to turn yourself,
13:34 there's somebody else who turns you and jumps in,
13:37 you have to be ready for all these kinds of things,
13:39 you have to do it at high speed, slow down, split second and go again,
13:43 these kind of things, we try as much as we can to do this in rehab sessions,
13:47 but in the end you cannot put in 10 other players, or more,
13:52 to recreate a proper game situation.
13:55 So that's where we are.
13:57 For me he looks good, but how good I get told more, I cannot decide that.
14:05 Nobody told me he will train this afternoon,
14:08 by the way, he could anyway, not after this session,
14:11 but nobody told me he will be back soon.
14:15 Any more questions for the breakers?
14:17 No? OK.
14:19 Yeah, you were just on the Championship, Fabio Carvalho went off to Fulton in January,
14:23 he's doing really well, and Talon Moore...
14:25 I forgot, but a good football player, I saw them as well,
14:28 he's really cool, and Fabio is doing really well, and Talon is doing really well,
14:33 I'm so pleased for them. It's massive.
14:37 So nice to see Fabio completely confident again.
14:44 Yeah, both are pretty dominant players, playing pretty much in the centre of a team,
14:53 being involved in a lot of moments, so it's really cool to see both develop,
14:58 and both are fantastic, really happy.
15:00 Jürgen, Jürgen Zag, and Glückwunsch on winning the Carabao Cup final.
15:07 Thank you.
15:08 Since the start of the season you've made 217 changes...
15:12 Sorry! 217, who counted that?
15:16 In all competitions, more than any other Premier League club,
15:19 how impressed are you by the depth of your squad
15:23 and your players adapting to different matches and scenarios?
15:26 Actually, our squad is deeper than we thought before the season,
15:30 we didn't think we'd need it, we need to figure out how deep it is.
15:34 Yeah, but the situation is like it is, and again, I said it plenty of times,
15:41 without the kids we wouldn't be here where we are now,
15:46 without... No, actually, the rest is quite normal,
15:52 because of the amount of games we had and different competitions we played,
15:57 everybody had game time.
15:59 That's when probably some people only looked properly at it,
16:02 when we played Premier League, and you see, "Oh, he has to come on",
16:06 but he might have played a week and a half ago, European League, 90 minutes,
16:10 and then he's in good shape, he has rhythm, all these kind of things,
16:13 so that helped the most, that we shared game time from the beginning,
16:18 so that everybody could have kind of rhythm,
16:22 and that's why I'm more than happy with the squad,
16:26 it would be cool if it would be now a bit deeper, but it's how it is.
16:31 We have to deal with it, and we do.
16:35 It's really like that, and you realise it anyway,
16:38 yes, we won two days ago the final, and that obviously gives you some positive thoughts,
16:43 but it's really like that, even before the game, in a very tricky situation,
16:48 because of the mood in the dressing room we were really positive.
16:53 Of course we could have lost that final, we are not blind,
16:56 we saw the chances, we saw Kweebs' saves, stuff like this,
17:00 that's clear, you can lose that, but it was always clear with each team
17:04 you can lose a final against Chelsea,
17:06 and we could have lost it that day, but the general feeling around is positive,
17:11 because for whatever reasons, we cannot change it anyway,
17:17 we have to play the games, but we don't play the games for being part of.
17:22 We want to win the football games in any way possible on that day,
17:28 and now we have to find a way to win the next one.
17:33 Thank you.
17:35 Thank you.
17:36 Thank you.
17:37 Thank you.
17:38 Thank you.
17:40 Thank you.
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