Liverpool opted to leave Stefan Bajcetic, Thiago Alcantara and Conor Bradley out of their trip to Singapore.
Liverpool deliver a triple injury update as return dates are announced.
Jurgen Klopp is confident that Stefan Bajcetic will rejoin the Liverpool squad after their pre-season trip of Singapore.
The 18-year-old and Thiago Alcantara have been left at home as they recover from their surgeries. Thiago had hip surgery near the conclusion of last season, while Bajcetic needed surgery in March for an adductor injury.
The Reds play Leicester City in a pre-season match today (10:00 BST) at the Singapore National Stadium before facing Bayern Munich on Wednesday.
Liverpool deliver a triple injury update as return dates are announced. And when Liverpool returns to Merseyside, Bajcetic’s recuperation will be accelerated. “We left him and Thiago at home because the travel would cost him back and forth like two, three, maybe four days of training and we thought it makes no sense in such an important phase of his rehab for both of the boys,” Klopp explained. But I’m in daily communication, so he’ll be back in team training when we get home, which is the current plan. That’s great.
“Yeah, super-talented player, a really cool package. Unfortunately, we didn’t see him playing for a while because it was a really nasty, not a bad injury but for a young player an annoying one where you feel pretty quickly fit again but still not allowed to do a lot and then you have to wait and wait and wait, and then from a specific moment on you can go – and that’s where we are now.”
Dominik Szoboszlai missed Liverpool’s 4-4 tie with Greuther Furth last week due to a minor ankle injury. The RB Leipzig summer signing is likely to make his debut against Leicester. “It’s good, nothing too serious,” Klopp continued. We had a lot of intensive sessions throughout these times, and it was in one of them that he rolled his ankle a little bit. We all know anything may happen there, but nothing actually happened except that he needed a few days of rest, proper treatment, and was shortly back on his feet.
“So, he was in training yesterday, but it was obviously not intense; after the long trip, we just had to shake the legs a little bit, play a rondo, and the players shot a little bit after the session, that’s all.”
“We’ll have a proper practice tonight, followed by the game tomorrow.” At the time, nothing suggests that he will not play.”
Conor Bradley was another player who was left at home for the journey to Singapore, having begun both friendlies this summer. The right-back has been injured.
“To be honest, it’s a real shame with Conor,” Klopp added. “Conor performed admirably. But stuff like this happens.”
