Liverpool’s gamers have reported again for pre-season coaching on the membership’s AXA Coaching Centre following Diogo Jota‘s funeral on Saturday.
Jota was killed in a automotive crash in Spain final Thursday alongside his brother Andre Silva and their funeral of their house city of Gondomar, close to Porto, was attended by lots of the Portugal ahead’s Liverpool team-mates and workers.
A few of Arne Slot‘s squad had been scheduled to return for pre-season coaching on Friday, however the membership delayed their return following the accident.
Mohamed Salah, Andy Robertson, Conor Bradley and Wataru Endo had been among the many gamers pictured arriving on the coaching floor.
Liverpool’s first pre-season pleasant is scheduled for Sunday in opposition to Preston at Deepdale, however the Premier League champions have but to announce whether or not the sport will go forward.
The Reds, who will play FA Cup winners Crystal Palace within the Neighborhood Defend on August 10, are additionally scheduled to face AC Milan in Hong Kong and J1 League aspect Yokohama in Japan on the finish of this month.
Liverpool Ladies gamers Gemma Bonner and Grace Fisk paid their respects to Jota and his brother at Anfield on Tuesday.
The pair signed the ebook of condolence and laid a wreath outdoors the stadium on behalf of the ladies’s staff.
Liverpool 2025 pre-season dates
July 8: Pre-season begins at AXA Coaching Centre
July 13: Preston (A)*
July 21: Fly to Asia
July 26: AC Milan (Hong Kong)
July 30: Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan)
August 4: Athletic Membership (H; two video games)
August 10: Crystal Palace (Neighborhood Defend)
August 15: Bournemouth (H) – Premier League begins
* To be confirmed
Health checks first up
Further reporting through Joanna Durkan
Upon arriving, gamers will probably be put beneath the microscope early on with the six-minute race take a look at (6MRT), which changed the dreaded lactate take a look at in Slot’s first summer time in cost.
Ruben Peeters, the first-team lead bodily efficiency coach, oversaw the change which asks gamers to run as quick as doable for six minutes round what’s often a 400-metre observe.
It evaluates maximal cardio pace, and the efficiency workers can use the information to plan accordingly based mostly on every participant’s outcomes.
In less complicated phrases, it assesses cardio endurance health, which is the power of the physique to make use of oxygen as an power supply.
The membership’s health workers are on the lookout for every participant’s base health stage after their summer time break, with everybody individually assessed with the 6MRT and extra.
