2022 World Cup : How I will keep in touch with Liverpool players – Klopp

Liverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp, has revealed how he stays in touch with his players during international breaks.

He however admits it will be easier to keep up with their progress during a World Cup.

“The number is not too big, there are seven and they are important players, but we have a clear rule with how it is in national games,” he explained.

“The boys have to text me with any issues and especially after games. At the World Cup, it’s different because we can see all the games, we can see who is playing, who isn’t playing, we can read the news and get all the information.

“But if it’s a normal international game, like if Brazil plays, it’s tricky to get any kind of information so we need the players to tell us. That’s the contact we will have definitely.

“In the players group, it’s clear that when they are winning, the WhatsApp group goes bonkers.

“But we are at the training camp in Dubai, that’s round the corner. If the players have to leave the tournament early, they can join us immediately, which is one of the reasons why we go there.”

Liverpool vs Southampton

Liverpool face a new-look Southampton, with Nathan Jones taking charge of his first game this weekend.

But with little time to prepare for an change in the opposition dugout, Klopp says his side will only be focusing on themselves.

He said: “I actually thought Ralph Hasenhuttl did an exceptional job there, but everything has its time.

“But if Southampton showed anything, it was for sure attitude. They were a highly motivated team, who were really going for it and these kind of things. With a new manager, there might be an extra 50 per cent, I don’t know, but that’s not our problem because we always expect a really motivated opponent.

“There is not a lot of time to change a lot of things, but in our analysis meeting, it was half Southampton and half Luton just to see what he’s doing, but because we don’t know, we have to focus on ourselves.

“We expect from ourselves a really good game, a game you can win, not because of the opponent, but because we have to. We have to show up, it’s the last game for a long time and that’s why we want to finish on a high.”