Jurgen Klopp's ideas for improvement in Austria

The Reds arrived in Salzburg on Friday for a week-long stay ahead of next weekend’s FA Community Shield clash with Manchester City. Jurgen Klopp is eager to maximise the opportunity this time away affords as he plots to surpass a remarkable 2021-22 in which his side won both domestic cup competitions, reached the Champions League final and finished one point behind City at the top of the Premier League.

“It was top… with obviously space for improvement,” the manager told Premier League Productions of last season. “Last year we couldn’t have done a lot better. Results could have been slightly better but performances not much, so happy with a lot but saw a lot what we can improve and that is what we are working on in the moment. “Not only because we want to improve, but we have to improve because other teams don’t sleep. Yeah, we have to be ready for massive fights every weekend and that’s what we try.”

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Pre-season preparations

"Good, but you cannot compare the two preparations. We had, again, a lot of players on international duty, they played long [seasons]. We had the longest season as a team as well with the Champions League [final]. Last year we had I think four-and-a-half weeks with all players together, which is, from my point of view if you ever want to change something in football, the minimum what we all should have, what each coach should get because you can then be really influential.

Now for us it is a normal pre-season. Since we arrived in Asia all players are back, some are already injured [and] that is of course not cool, but all players are back and we work together and it’s fine. The pre-season is where it should be. We know we played three games, lost the first and won the two others, we are physically not where we want to be but that’s normal as well. Tactically we work a lot and for the moment I am fine [but] we don’t have really time because next Saturday we play already Man City in the Community Shield and that will be a massive test."