After reading Takeshi’s Castle he felt the need to reiterate its main points in today’s Echo:

“We have a lot of people with high expectations this season, who want us to achieve big things, but we played the most important game with some of our best players short of a month’s preparation due to the World Cup.

“Now there are two qualifiers at the start of the season. It’s crazy. This is not just a problem for Liverpool, but all the big clubs.

“I saw the Liverpool fans in Kiev, and I want to thank them, but it’s wrong we could not prepare properly for such an important game because our World Cup players did not have the same level of pre-season training. It was very dangerous for us.

“The supporters spend a lot of money to travel to watch us play and expect us to be in the Champions League, and it’s crazy if we are not able to have the play-ers at the right level because of so many international games.”

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