James Milner has credited Liverpool’s success this season down to Jurgen Klopp’s ‘relentless’ demands.
Saturday’s FA Cup final win over Chelsea sees the Anfield club heading into the Premier League’s final week still in contention for a potential quadruple.
The Reds have claimed both domestic cups, reached the Champions League final and have an outside shot of unseating Manchester City in the title race.
And Milner believes that the arduous schedule which Klopp places on his side from pre-season been integral to them continuing to fight on multiple fronts.
Asked about the secret of the club’s endurance levels, he said: “Experience helps.
“Going through those things before as a group helps. Having incredible fans helps, filling half the stadium. But it comes from the manager.
“Since he’s been here, the group of players he has, the desire and the way we train. It starts from pre-season, the double sessions.
“It’s like ‘Are we going again? Are we going again?’. There’s no session, not one session where you feel like ‘Wow, that was really hard!’
“They’re all pretty tough! It’s just relentless, and that’s where it starts.
“In pre-season it’s like ‘we go again, we go this afternoon, then tomorrow morning’ and so on. That’s why we can keep going.”
The midfielder also revealed how the relentless churn of games prevents Liverpool from dwelling on setbacks such as the recent draw with Tottenham.
“It’s the same all the time,” admits Milner.
“You’re down but you react and go again. [Because of] the amount of games, the short turnaround, you can never be too high or too down.
“We’ve just won the FA Cup. Would you like to celebrate more than we will? Yes we would, but we can’t afford to do that.
“That’s the tough thing about being at this level, you maybe can’t afford to enjoy your successes as much as you’d like to.
“You win a trophy and it’s like, ‘When’s the next game?’
“You win the last game, you win the PL and you can enjoy it for three weeks on your holiday, then it’s pre-season and you have to go again.
“That’s probably the one thing you regret in your career, that you don’t enjoy it as much as you should. But that’s part of being successful.
“You have to be focused and move on to the next one.”