Liverpool‘s pre-season ahead of the 2022-23 campaign has yielded mixed results, but it’s given manager Jurgen Klopp the opportunity to take a closer look at his many talented youngsters and fringe players.
Last season, Liverpool played the maximum possible amount of games as they fought to win four competitions, and they’ll have ambitions of doing the same again. The new Premier League ruling of five substitutions should allow Klopp to use the depth in his squad more extensively in the upcoming campaign.
With that in mind, here are six players that took their chance in pre-season to boost their chances of first-team opportunities.
Harvey Elliott
“We should not forget that last season, in the first four games, Harvey Elliott was the best player. He was outstanding,” Klopp recently told The Times.
“Then he had a bad injury, came back, [he was] high, low. Normal for a young player, and normal after a long injury. He looks sharp now, he’s back, and like everybody he needs luck.”
Elliott only made a return to the periphery after the serious injury he suffered against Leeds United last September resulted in him being sidelined for half of last season.
He’s since been one of the Reds’ most involved players of the 2022 pre-season and was singled out for praise by his manager in the recent 1-0 defeat to Red Bull Salzburg.
It’s easy to forget that the winger’s still just 19 – 2022-23 could well be the year he truly explodes into life at Anfield.
Curtis Jones
“I’d like to go for 10 goals plus and 10 assists plus this season,” Jones recently told LFCTV. You can’t fault the ambition.
The midfielder only got the odd run-out as Liverpool chased down the quadruple last term, but he’s evidently targeting more involvement in 2022-23 and has gone about achieving that the right way this summer. He was particularly impressive in Liverpool’s 5-0 victory over RB Leipzig.
A knock kept him out of the 3-0 defeat to Strasbourg on Sunday, but it’s not thought to be serious and he should soon be available again soon.
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Fabio Carvalho
Given he’s a new signing, we’re not quite sure whether to judge Carvalho as a fringe player just yet, but the 19-year-old was turning out in the Championship last term and Liverpool boast established world-class players in advanced areas, so it’s probably safe to assume he won’t walk into Klopp’s favoured XI.
That’s not to say he…
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