His Liverpool side take on relegation threatened Sunderland at 3PM, but Klopp will be watching form the hospital bed.
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However, when asked about the claims by reporters on Friday, Klopp replied: “You can’t make up a story, put your name on it and ask me about it”.
“The Daniel “story”? There is no story”. How can it be a story?
“Liverpool have shown they can play unbelievable games but then three days later play a totally different one and not reach the standards they want”.
He added that the Sturridge speculation “is absolutely no story, not interesting”. “I did not ask him ‘Do you think about it?’ He did not come to me and say he is thinking about it”, said Klopp.
“Why should I think about [that]?” he said, dismissing reports offhand. Nothing. 10 days, when I said 10 days it’s about training, that’s all. Daniel is back in training and that’s great.
Jurgen Klopp insists he has no reason to doubt Daniel Sturridge’s ongoing commitment to Liverpool as the striker closes in on a comeback. Now it is normal football training – really good for us and good for him.
He is back in training again this week after recovering from a hamstring injury and is pushing for a restart in Liverpool’s upcoming games with Sunderland and West Ham United.
“If Daniel or another player came to me and ask me to leave I will talk about it but I never believe rumours”.
“If they sell Daniel Sturridge on the cheap, they are going to have to spend £40million or £50million to get a striker of that calibre”, he said. Obviously there were a few problems in the past with a few injuries, but not since I was here, and that is part of the truth. We have tried everything we could.
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Klopp will still be without defender Martin Skrtel for the clash with relegation-threatened Sunderland after the Slovakian worldwide suffered a setback in his recovery from injury.
