Jürgen Klopp will put Liverpool players though triple training sessions after adding a second member of Bayern Munich’s backroom staff during the pre-season.
The Liverpool boss has been a long time admirer of Bayern’s fitness work and has already lured Andreas Kornmayer to leave his position as fitness coach at the Allianz Arena in favour of Anfield.
Now Bayern’s nutritionist, Mona Nemmer, will become the newest member of Klopp’s back room staff next season.
Nemmer is regarded as one of the top nutritionists in elite sport and joined Bayern in 2013 after spending five years with the German FA.
She is expected to join up with Liverpool in pre-season when the players will face a demanding training schedule in Klopp’s first summer in charge.
“It will be triple training sessions, of course,” said the Liverpool manager, who will be based in California as part of the pre-season plans.
“The problem with pre-season is that for the first three weeks we have 15 players who will have been away at the Euros and we also have to see how the squad is changing. On another planet we would have six weeks together training because in this league it is the only time that you can train.
“In all of the [pre-season] games we will play out full training. So if we play our best in pre-season then I’ve done something completely wrong. We have to do a lot to create a base for one year.
“We stop pre-season in the middle of August and maybe with the players who come back from the Euros it will be difficult so we might have to make their pre-season two weeks longer so that it goes into the season. That might mean they do not play at that stage or they are only allowed to play so many minutes.”
He added: “We have a special plan of what we want to do with the boys. They cannot go home now when they are off at the end of the season.
“Nearly all of them have national team games but you cannot have six weeks off. You have something like four weeks and in four weeks you cannot sleep for the whole time so you have two weeks completely off and you have a plan and you have to do it.
“That means when you come back you are not at nil, you are at 60-70 per cent and then you can start training. That’s how it works.
“Everything you do is based around physical potential and what you do in pre-season is key to that. We are now really fit but because of the games – our best sessions have been the games.
“On the one side we play a little bit too often and it’s too intense training but usually we are in a good shape and you saw against Chelsea that Emre [Can] played again after three weeks off.
“It was hard for him but it was very important for him to get through it. That shows the right training works. That is how it is and that’s why we will train a lot.”