Liverpool announce pre-season training camp in Austria… and injured centre-backs Virgil van Dijk, Joe Gomez and Joel Matip are all named in next week’s travelling party (including £36m new boy Ibrahima Konate)
Liverpool have announced the club’s pre-season training camp in Austria, with long-term injured centre-backs Virgil van Dijk, Joe Gomez and Joel Matip all named in the travelling party.
The Reds’ £36million new summer signing Ibrahima Konate is also listed in the 34-man squad travelling on July 12.
Van Dijk and Gomez have not played since October and November respectively after sustaining serious knee injuries but will join up with the squad – missing players who were, or still are, involved in Euro 2020 and the Copa America – at their base in the state of Tyrol.
Virgil van Dijk (left) and Joe Gomez (centre) are named in Liverpool’s pre-season training squad
Centre-back Joel Matip, who was injured in January, is also on the list to travel to Austria
Matip has not featured since sustaining an ankle ligament injury in Liverpool’s 3-1 Premier League win over Tottenham in January.
Konate will meet his new team-mates for the first time following his move from RB Leipzig.
Right-back Trent Alexander-Arnold, who had to pull out of England’s Euro 2020 squad on the eve of the tournament with a thigh muscle tear, is also in the squad along with 11 academy players.
Liverpool’s £36million new signing Ibrahima Konate will meet his team-mates for the first time
‘We look forward to going to Austria again for the start of our pre-season. All the conditions to prepare the team there are just at a very high level,’ assistant manager Pepijn Lijnders told Liverpool’s website.
‘We will use this to go back to basics. When you ask a lot from your players you have to give a lot as well – and we find all of this in Austria.’