Pre-season is generally too short but that is why we extend it into the season, reveals Jurgen Klopp

While the 2021/22 season officially ended the moment the Champions League final did, for more than a few players that weren’t the case because of the international break scheduled immediately after. It saw more than two dozen players from across the Premier League take part in the UEFA Nations League, a decision that has been heavily criticized by many especially given the intense season that was behind them.

"We have to extend our pre-season into the season but most of the teams will do that. We will not have a normal pre-season week between City and Fulham but we will do more than we would do during a normal week during the season, like week five or six usually when we are still not playing in the Champions League and we have a normal week, Saturday to Saturday, Sunday to Sunday, whatever,” Klopp said, reported Goal.

"I don’t read newspapers but not enough people talk about it, pre-season is generally too short but that is why we extend it into the season. That doesn’t help for the first games but it helps for the long term and that is actually the idea,” he added.