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23-07-2019 | 22:32 • Football
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Pep Guardiola backs Jurgen Klopp on crazy schedule issue
Manchester City head coach Pep Guardiola has spoken out on the schedule that players have during a long season.
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has earlier told media it is hard for him to choose the squad due to the fact, that many players have just finished the season and need a rest so that they could be fit.
Roberto Firmino, Alisson Becker (Brazil), Sadio Mane (Senegal), Naby Keita (Guinea) and Mohamed Salah (Egypt) have just finished their long campaign at their national teams and will join the Reds only before the first official match of the season. Mane, moreover, will miss Community Shield against Manchester City.
Guardiola has raised the same concern as Klopp: “Some [players] will come on the 29th or 30 (of July); the others will come in three or four weeks.
“They decide to come back between three or four weeks. I don’t want them to come back when they’re not fit or tired or mentally not recovered from an incredibly tough season.
“We cannot forget we started a new season while Riyad Mahrez had not finished the last one.
“It’s a crazy schedule and it is going to kill our players! We cannot sustain that for a long time.
“They have to breathe and rest and give more quality in the tournaments. They have to rest.” Guardiola added.
Manchester City and Liverpool will meet at Wembley Stadium, on August 4th to play in Community Shield.
Source - LiverpoolECHO
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