Daniel Sturridge

[Harv]

Good for you! Look at you making decisions on your own now. Well done!

[Fosterbloke]

Good for you! Look at you making decisions on your own now. Well done!

Thank you Harv! It's good of you to recognise someone's hard work. Oh wait...

[Fredo]

Diet and not being lazy with strengthening exercises (which apparently Storage is with his physio work). You can see him warming up before games lately, doesn't look fully committed to me. But then again i apparently hate the guy.

Hmmm. Klopp has said that he might have been overworked when he was recovering. What do you make of it?

[marcus50bucks]

Jürgen Klopp hopeful Daniel Sturridge will be fit to face Watford

Tony Barrett
Published at 12:01AM, December 10 2015

Jürgen Klopp has admitted that too much might have been asked of Daniel Sturridge too soon after the England forward suffered a hamstring strain in his third comeback game having been unavailable for seven weeks through injury.

Sturridge will miss Liverpool’s final Europa League group game away to FC Sion tonight and also their Barclays Premier League fixture at home to West Bromwich Albion but could return to light training shortly with Klopp hopeful that the 26-year-old will be fit to face Watford at Vicarage Road on December 20.

The injury, which Sturridge suffered when attempting a shot during Liverpool’s 2-0 defeat by Newcastle United in the Barclays Premier League on Sunday, is not serious according to Klopp, but the Liverpool manager did indicate that it might have been avoided had his workload been reduced.

After playing the final 19 minutes against Swansea in his comeback game, the England international then lasted an hour of Liverpool’s 6-1 win over Southampton in the Capital One Cup before being introduced as a substitute at Newcastle in the 62nd minute. So delicate is the situation surrounding Sturridge’s fitness that Klopp now believes even that schedule may have been too demanding.

“Daniel had his injuries, I don’t know most of them,” Klopp said. “But, after two days, the question is always ‘Is he available?’ Then I say ‘no, of course not’ Then another striker gets injured, so we say ‘Come on, let’s try’. And then something happens and we say ‘okay!’

“It is a little hamstring; nothing more. But we have to try, together with him, to make it more resistant. It is not his knee, not his hip, not his foot; it is just a little hamstring. But this is a sign that it was too much for him. So we have to see.

“Now we have ten days, I would say, until we think about if he should play. That would be the Watford game, maybe, if he can run for eight days and be ready for physical training. Eight days might be the longest time he has trained for in the last year. Then maybe he is ready to play 20-25 minutes like it is.”

Liverpool have already qualified for the knockout stages of the Europa League but can reach the last 32 as group winners if they avoid defeat against Sion and Klopp is ready to use tonight’s game as an opportunity for Divock Origi to stake his claim to replace Sturridge during his latest enforced absence.

“I am ready to give my all,” Origi said. “I just have to enjoy my games and try to learn every game. The qualities are there, I just have to do my best. Whenever the team or coach needs me I am ready. I hope to be [playing] more from now but in football you never know.”

FC Sion (possible (4-1-4-1): A Vanins – E Zverotic, L Lacroiz, R Ziegler, P Jagne – V Salatic – E Assifuah, X Kouassi, E Fernandes, Carlitos – M Konate.

Liverpool (possible 4-2-3-1): S Mignolet – C Randall, K Toure, D Lovren, B Smith – J Henderson, E Can – R Firmino, P Coutinho, A Lallana – D Origi.

Referee: Michael Koukoulaki (Greece).

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/sport/football/article4636981.ece

[marcus50bucks]

Hmmm. Klopp has said that he might have been overworked when he was recovering. What do you make of it?

Yep, so perhaps people can lay off him on this occasion

[Kenneth]

Hmmm. Klopp has said that he might have been overworked when he was recovering. What do you make of it?

That Klopp is a great manager who tries to take the pressure of his players.

[Fredo]

That Klopp is a great manager who tries to take the pressure of his players.

Yeah, the player is solely responsible for it, not the manager who actually decides when to play him.

[marcus50bucks]

That Klopp is a great manager who tries to take the pressure of his players.

Yes, that would be the same manager that said Sturridge should know what is pain and what is serious pain! Perhaps he is just being honest about Sturridge being overworked!!

[Harv]

Hmmm. Klopp has said that he might have been overworked when he was recovering. What do you make of it?

That he's as frail as an old age pensioner and they can't treat him like other players. They're probably trying to harden him up. His muscles are probably in a state of atrophy after the little amount he's done the past year.

[Harv]

Yeah, the player is solely responsible for it, not the manager who actually decides when to play him.

So every manager Storage has ever had is a prick thats overworked him?

[Fredo]

So every manager Storage has ever had is a prick thats overworked him?

Nope but there is a medical team assisting managers. I am not disputing the fact that Sturridge is prone to niggly injuries, just that the recurrence of them can be avoided. It's about managing his recovery time. It doesn't help that we don't have cover of similar quality to allow him time to get back to a rhythm that suits him.

The notion that he isn't committed enough is preposterous.

[Fredo]

That he's as frail as an old age pensioner and they can't treat him like other players. They're probably trying to harden him up. His muscles are probably in a state of atrophy after the little amount he's done the past year.

Glad you're not a doctor ffs because the idea that every player is similar and should be treated the same is laughable.

[el matador]

When you've been out that long its tough to play in 3 consecutive games or whatever it is and not feel niggles. We have been very cautious with Henderson but couldn't afford to give the same sort of protection to Sturridge.

Its not too serious which is a plus point but given the amount of time he has had off its not the best either.

[Harv]

Glad you're not a doctor ffs because the idea that every player is similar and should be treated the same is laughable.

Where did i say that every player should be treated the same? I said the exact opposite

[Harv]

Nope but there is a medical team assisting managers. I am not disputing the fact that Sturridge is prone to niggly injuries, just that the recurrence of them can be avoided. It's about managing his recovery time. It doesn't help that we don't have cover of similar quality to allow him time to get back to a rhythm that suits him.

The notion that he isn't committed enough is preposterous.

Its not managing his recovery time. Its managing his body. He needs to strengthen everything and you only do that by pushing through pain. Muscles hurt when you work them. Hence the "what is real pain" line.

If it was managing his recovery and left it up to him to decide when he's 100%, we would see him maybe once a month if we were lucky and he'd never get in any playing shape or rhythm.

Yes, so preposterous that his ex teammates and manager have basically called him soft in the press.