Klopp will push players to limit

have to do a lot to create a base for one year. Football is about training, and all that we’ve achieved is because of the work we’ve done.

“We have a special plan of what we want to do with the boys. Nearly all of them have national team games now, but you cannot have six weeks off.

“You have four weeks and in four weeks you can’t sleep for the whole time, so you have two weeks completely off and you have a plan and you have to do it.

“That means when you come back you are not at nil, you are at 60 to 70 per cent and then you start training. That’s how it works.” The involvement of a number of players at Euro 2016, likely to include Jordan Henderson, below, who is back in contention after injury, means their fitness will have to be managed. Klopp said: “The problem with preseason is for the first three weeks we have 15 who will have been away at the Euros. We stop preseason in mid-August and with the players back from the Euros, we might have to make their pre-season two weeks longer, so that it goes into the season.”