Press conferenceInjury news: Updates from Klopp on Thiago, Salah and Szoboszlai

All three players will miss Saturday’s match at Anfield due to injury, with Thiago having picked up a muscle problem during his return to action as a substitute in last weekend’s defeat at Arsenal.

Szoboszlai was absent from Emirates Stadium after sustaining an issue in the win over Chelsea on January 31, while Salah is sidelined with the muscular complaint he suffered while on Africa Cup of Nations duty with Egypt.

Furthermore, ahead of the game against the Clarets, Klopp told the media: “We have a few problems and have to wait… We are fighting with a little bit of a flu thing in the squad so we have to see who is in the end available, so that’s all not cool.

“But in the end we will have 11 players and we will go for it.”

Klopp also confirmed Conor Bradley will not be involved following the passing of his father, while Ibrahima Konate is suspended. Wataru Endo is, though, available after Japan’s Asian Cup campaign came to an end.

Read the manager’s words on Thiago, Salah and Szoboszlai in full below.

Thiago

“Thiago, obviously, is not cool. Everything looked absolutely fantastic in training. We showed quite a lot of things, I think, on LFCTV so you can see the training moments and it looks outstanding so you think, ‘Come on, take him, we have the opportunity, let him play a few minutes’ and then…

“It’s a muscle issue, we don’t know the extent yet. We have to wait there a little bit, but it’s not cool, of course. It was really not good news for him, for us, for everybody. On top of losing the game already and having that is not good.

“Yes [I expect him to play again this season], but we didn’t really think about that, in the moment we just treat the injury and get a full assessment done and knowing exactly where it came from. It’s not the intensity and stuff like this, so there are different things.

“It’s just the normal procedure and it would not be a big story if he wouldn’t have been out for that long a time. That’s how it is. It’s not a big, big injury, definitely not, but it’s obviously something nobody needed.”

Salah

“Right direction. We hope, but we don’t know, we hope that he can be part of parts of training next week. But we have to see, he is going through all the phases now and it’s positive. It’s either next week or the week after.”

Szoboszlai

“Dom is running outside in the moment, in the winter rain, and is not ready for tomorrow, of course not. Then we have to see. It’s like it always is with these tendon things; pretty quickly the player is pain-free and then it’s all about… it’s muscle [and] it’s pretty much the same that he had before.

“That’s obviously really not good that he got that again. He didn’t feel a great issue but when you see then the pictures you just have to take him out and now we are fighting for days, if you want. Is it Brentford, is it the [Carabao Cup] final or is it after the final? I don’t know in the moment.”