Klopp gives Liverpool TWO chilling warnings
FT Desk
- 26 Aug 2023 12:30 BST
- 3 min read
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp had sobering words for his employers as the Reds hold concerns on two fronts at the start of the Premier League season.
A share of the points on the opening weekend against Chelsea followed by victory over Bournemouth gave Liverpool a decent start to the new campaign.
They will now look to extend that unbeaten on Sunday when they visit Newcastle.
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All is not entirely well around Anfield, though, and Klopp is especially concerned about the club's lack of depth at centre-back.
The Reds have been hurt in the past with injuries to key defenders like Virgil van Dijk and Joel Matip, and with the prospect of new faces coming in looking unlikely the manager will have to make do with what he has.
“In this room, it’s always like ‘we could do this, could do that’. Maybe one day you sit a day in my chair and you have to deal with all the other stuff as well,” Klopp explained to reporters.
“In an ideal world we have six, seven, eight centre halves. We need to be lucky with injuries.
“I have no doubt about the quality of the boys we have, we have Jarell Quansah, a super-talented player as well.
“In this moment, we are covered but it’s not dreamland where you can be prepared for absolutely each situation.
“We had to learn that in the past as well a couple of times.
“We will try to do our absolute best to have a squad next week for us where we can react on pretty much everything. Is that possible? We will see.”
Salah staying?
Mohamed Salah's future is another big question mark for the Merseysiders.
The forward is reportedly subject to a massive bid from Saudi Arabia, though Klopp underlined that he is "100 committed" to being a Liverpool player heading into the final week of the transfer window.
Salah still has two years to run on the contract extension he signed back in July 2022 and has started both of Liverpool's games to date, scoring his first goal of the new season in last week's win against Bournemouth to take his Reds tally to 187.
