Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has given an update on the injury situation of Virgil van Dijk, Joe Gomez, Joel Matip and Trent Alexander-Arnold.

Former Premier League champions Liverpool are in pre-season training now ahead of the 2021-22 campaign.

The Liverpool players are in a training camp in Austria.

Van Dijk suffered a long-term knee injury last October and did not play again last season.

Fellow central defenders Gomez and Matip also had long-term injuries, while right-back Alexander-Arnold picked up an injury ahead of England’s Euro 2020 campaign and did not play in the European Championship.

Klopp told Liverpool’s official website: “No, they aren’t [at the same level as the others], but it’s different. Let’s start with: all four look really good, I have to say. Look really good.

“Now we are in constant talks with the medical department, the fitness department, the rehab department about what is right for them today: do they have to do maybe a little bit more than the rest of the group, do they have to do a little bit less?

“So, especially Virg and Joe will not have double sessions now for the first few days with the team; they have a second session of the day but it’s with Andreas Schlumberger, with the rehab department, physiotherapy, these kinds of things. That’s for these two. [They] look really good. I don’t know exactly when we can make the next steps but it will happen in the next four weeks, for sure – we will get a big step forward.

“Joel looks good, absolutely, he is the closest probably to normal training and then we will see when we get him started for playing.

“Trent was a serious enough injury but now not a major one, I would say. He is close but in the moment, probably the next five or six days he has a special programme: from time to time with the team, probably from time to time by himself. But then in five or six or seven days he should be in normal team training.”

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