Pre-season training has been stepped up for Liverpool over the past couple of days.
Those who returned for the very first day under Arne Slot have now been put through their paces for the best part of two weeks.
With Liverpool set to fly out for their pre-season tour to the USA next Tuesday, the serious business of friendlies will soon commence.
As a result, the new head coach should be getting an idea of which members of the Liverpool squad he likes the look of, and which he maybe does not.
Without most of his big stars for the time being, Slot is getting a good look at everything the club has to offer from first-team to academy.
Liverpool staff impressed by Mohamed Salah
Slot has obviously not yet given much of an indication as to what he thinks of individual members of the group just yet.
That will become more apparent once we see who he selects for the first pre-season game against Real Betis a week on Saturday.
In the meantime though, Slot has praised the Liverpool squad as a whole and his coaching team have said some revealing things, too.
Clearly, the Reds are dealing with quite a new-looking set up in the backroom team, with John Heitinga the latest appointment on Wednesday.
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But some of the staff are still left over from Jurgen Klopp’s days at the AXA Training Centre. One of those who this applies to is first-team fitness coach Conall Murtagh.
And according to The Athletic, Murtagh has been raving about the shape Mohamed Salah has returned from his summer holidays in.
The coach was reportedly left to hail Salah’s performance in the ‘six minute race test’ as being ‘phenomenal’ on his first day back at the ranch.
Beyond that little exercise, the 32-year-old is said to have come back in ‘incredible shape’ and is claimed to have been ‘setting the standards’ for everyone around him. New season, same old Mo.
Not everyone impresses Arne Slot
It is not a surprise to hear that Salah has been catching the eye during pre-season. The Egyptian is as fit as they come.
Salah was even spotted pleading with Slot to let him do some extra running with the returning Dominik Szoboszlai on Tuesday. The man is a machine.
However, not everyone has been quite so impressive during pre-season so far.
Reports on Wednesday suggest that Rhys Williams is now training away from the first-team and is expected to be moved on from the club.
Williams’ exile and Salah’s success are hardly unexpected. But it just goes to show that Slot is already having a big bearing on selecting his group.
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