Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp updated on the fitness and availability of key players ahead of their Premier League clash with Brentford
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00:00 How is it looking for Mo, will he be back?
00:03 And obviously disappointing news around Trent,
00:06 it looks like he's going to miss the Carabao Cup final,
00:09 what can you tell us about that, and how are Dominic and Thiago as well?
00:11 Mo is back in full training, that brings him automatically in contention, of course.
00:18 Ivo is not suspended anymore, Joey is fit again.
00:29 Conor is back, Ali is back, so that's all positive.
00:35 Thiago, no.
00:39 And Trent, no, that's true.
00:43 I think we have to clarify a little bit, I was not really aware of it,
00:48 but I got now somehow the news as well that there was a discussion
00:53 about we might have forced Trent back, because two setbacks, that's true,
00:58 but it's really unfortunate and nobody wants that and nobody's doing that.
01:02 But different cases, different scenarios anyway,
01:07 and as long as I'm here we never forced anybody back, we'll never do.
01:13 But we work in a high-performance area,
01:18 where if you have the same injury, you are fit after three days,
01:25 and the guy after four weeks, because they have to sprint, whatever injury it is.
01:29 So it's always about that, we always try to catch the earliest moment.
01:34 Unfortunately, when we catch that moment, nobody speaks about it.
01:38 Like with Maka recently, with Diogo, that's a job we have to do.
01:43 But the last decision is always by the player,
01:49 and if you would always listen only to the player,
01:51 the players would play after two weeks and then it's a real problem.
01:55 So, the boys were in the moment when they played, they were fit,
02:01 but the situation told us differently because it happened again.
02:06 You never will know if it would have happened anyway,
02:09 or if it just happened because there was something before, you will never know.
02:13 Very, very unlucky and unfortunate, absolutely.
02:16 Had that a couple of times in my time as a manager,
02:18 obviously not only here, it can happen. It's not great, but nothing else.
02:23 It says nothing about the quality of anybody.
02:25 The world we are living in is always a medical department,
02:27 I'm not sure about that, it has nothing to do with that.
02:30 We have to bring the boys back as soon as possible,
02:34 but never sooner than they are ready, from our point of view.