This star may not return to Liverpool right away, according to Jurgen Klopp.

After his World Cup-related efforts following his participation in every minute of Liverpool's Premier League and Champions League campaigns this season, Dutch captain Van Dijk played every minute of the Netherlands' journey to the quarterfinals in Qatar, following Friday's 4-1 friendly victory over AC Milan, Klopp said of the returning players, "Yeah, there's a chance, of course - they train already."

"Here, Hendo is already practicing. Although Virg is practicing here, I don't believe we should try that. We'll see about Hendo and Trent. But this group has been working together for almost two weeks, and we made a significant progress, so that's good. Currently, I'm unsure (who will play). We all know there's a virus running about in England and around Europe

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So I hope we all make it through it. I also hope none of us contract it. After that, we will definitely decide on Wednesday who can play on Thursday."But it's good, and the game will be really entertaining after that," the speaker said. Teenagers Bobby Clark and Ben Doak both assisted goals for Darwin Nunez, who scored twice in the second half after Mo Salah and Thiago Alcantara scored in the first

Klopp was impressed with the performances of several young players in Dubai. "When you bring on the kids [in the] second half and you see the pass from Bobby Clark and the whole performance from Stefan (Bajcetic), the performance from Mel [Frauendorf] as a right full-back and then Ben Doak comes on, "Everyone made a great stride forwards in these 10, 11, 

Physical nature of adult football

Especially the youngsters, and that's why these things are so important, that we can involve them," he said, He went on: "It's incredibly cool. The Academy might not be able to attend the game tonight, but it's still cool to see these youngsters compete in a game like this. These steps are necessary for the boys to do in order to gradually prepare for the physical nature of adult football, which is a true game that requires physical play.