Jurgen Klopp Resigned To Losing Key Duo As He Admits Pressure In Keeping Everyone Happy

Written By Jacobs Dunga

Liverpool will more likely than not be without at least two of their important players starting from next season due to the size of the squad.

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Jurgen Klopp has made no secret of his admiration for the best assemblage of players in his Liverpool career. The Reds boss has been blessed by a star studded and united squad at Anfield where he joined in 2015.

The Reds are on a quadruple chase with the Carabao Cup already secured and passage into the last eight of the Champions League and FA Cup confirmed.

They’re just four points behind table toppers Manchester City and could cut that to just a point if they beat Arsenal on Wednesday night.

Klopp is happy with his squad and how they have been faring, he would have loved to have them all going into next season but for some reasons, he admitted a few players would leave so as to continue their good forms elsewhere.

The £50m arrival of Luis Diaz in January further bolstered the quality of the side while some returning injured players have been pointed to by Klopp as having the impact of new signings.

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The Liverpool boss confesses it is “really tough” to try and keep so many excellent players happy and suggested there will be departures this summer as a result. “It is crazy because we still have Divock and Taki on top of that,” Klopp told Sky Sports. “It is incredibly hard for him and for me as well because it is really tough these kind of things. Taki is in an incredible moment.

“It is unlikely with the size of the squad that we now stay exactly like this together. For sure, some of the players do not play often enough for their own understanding and we will see what will come in the summer and find solutions for those situations. “But the core of the group has to stay together. There is no doubt about that.”

On the returning players, he added: “Funnily enough, apart from Luis, it is the same squad that we had when we started the season.

“We had this strong squad, they were just unavailable. Now they are available. That makes it the squad that we always wanted to have.”

Meanwhile…

Jurgen Klopp has heaped praises on Mikel Arteta and his Arsenal squad following their resurgence from a bad start to the season.

Arsenal lost each of their first three games of this season without scoring a single goal including a 0-5 mauling at the hands of Manchester City.

The Gunners would go on to win eight of the next ten games in all competitions before being humbled by Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool 4-0 at Anfield.

The North London club are on a run of five consecutive victories while Liverpool are yet to taste defeat in the league since the turn of the year. This night’s clash will either move Liverpool closer to within the reach of the leaders or steer Arsenal clear of other top four rivals.

Klopp was full of respect and admiration for tonight’s opponents as said in his press conference: “I can’t even remember their start [to the season], I just see them playing now,” the German said in his pre-match press conference.

“They have a clear structure, clear idea, properly tuned, possession-based, young, full of talent and joy. If you go through the line-up there’s an experienced striker and then three very exciting young boys and then a bit more experience in the double six and then a pretty inexperienced backline and a young goalkeeper, and that’s not with Emile Smith Rowe even in, and then on top of the other guys, it’s interesting.

“Other teams will not like it because it’s another big name back on track but that’s how it looks. There are similarities [to us], you can say it like this, they’re a massive club and qualification for European football in the last few years is not exactly how they wanted it.

“If they get Champions League this year, it will feel as good [as it did] for us the first time. A step in the right direction, an exciting team.

“Arsenal fans, maybe since I was in England, it was not always easy for them to enjoy. But they seem to be now and that’s exactly how it should be.”

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