Agen MaxbeT ~ Liverpool's big-money strikers have been put firmly in their place by boss Jurgen Klopp.
Christian Benteke came off the bench to score the only goal against Leicester on Saturday but was then told he needs to do more for the team.
Klopp also trained his guns on injury-jinxed Daniel Sturridge, telling him: You’ll stay on the sidelines until I decide otherwise.
The
German wants £32.5million man Benteke to contribute far more to his
team’s high-intensity ‘gegen-press’ tactics before he is guaranteed a
starting position.
He said: “We need his goals and he is a goal scorer no doubt, but I
don’t only think about him and goals. We are not a team who can play
with a striker who scores a goal but is not involved in the game for the
other 89 minutes.
“We need the striker for the other options too, to work for the other minutes.”
Sturridge,
rated in the £20m bracket, broke down on his return from injury earlier
this month but, in a Christmas message to his fans, insisted he is now
ready to play again.
However Klopp was having none of it and
said: “I think this is absolutely the same thing that Daniel said four
weeks ago, and we let him play and he was injured again.
He says this, you ask him and he says he’s good. I know he is good,
but he has to train. We can not change the situation, he has to train
now.
“With him, these are most intensive weeks in training for
Daniel Sturridge in the last three years. So now you can see what we
have to do. We can not say, come on Daniel now you look good so you can
play.
Bndar Judi Online MaxbeT ~ “I don’t want to see him in training. Because everybody
sees him training and they think ‘oh, come on, bring him into the team,
we need his quality’.
But no. We really, really have to be patient now,
we have to wait, we have to train, we have to give the body the right
information, and if he can do this, then maybe we can change something.”
Liverpool
had 24 shots on goal against the league leaders, but only four on
target, which suggests they are crying out for their two most natural
goalscorers to start regularly.
Klopp said: “Christian came in, got a goal, it’s good for him, good for us, a better situation than before.
“He
can do this I know, what I said, we had a really good talk in the week,
he knows what he has to do, he came in had a really good game, decided
the game. And well done!”
Benteke himself admits that he has
struggled to adapt to the new manager’s demands, and he assured Klopp
that he will not be storming into the office to demand to be playing.
Instead, he is prepared to listen and learn. “I spoke with the
manager a few days ago about where I can improve and what he is
expecting from me. We had a good conversation - I wont complain. It is
part of football,” he said.
“We had like a ‘man conversation’ and
I think it is going to help me and help the team. I am not saying every
player can play like Barcelona but I have been in England a long time
so I can adapt. I think I have to run more and I have to be there for my
team-mates.
“I am still a young player and I want to learn. Like
any striker you need a few games, I wanted to start, of course, every
player wants to play but it is the decision of the manager and I have to
be ready.
“He is the right manager for me to help me in my
development. When you are a little bit on the side you try and to
understand what the manager needs and what he wants and we had a very
good chat.”
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