Seven Liverpool players will be involved at the World Cup in Qatar, but how many players from the Reds’ Premier League rivals will be involved? Overall from Liverpool and the Premier League clubs will have the most players at the Qatar World Cup.
The vast majority of the national squads were confirmed last week.
Seven Liverpool players set to feature at the tournament. Trent Alexander-Arnold and Jordan Henderson will both be involved for England, Alisson and Fabinho are in Brazil’s squad. Virgil van Dijk will be with holders Netherlands, Ibrahima Konate with France and Darwin Nunez with Uruguay.
That is less, though, than the rest of Premier League‘s ‘big six’, with Manchester United, Arsenal, Tottenham, Chelsea and Manchester City all losing more players to the World Cup.
Manchester United will have Brazilian Fred, Casemiro and Antony involved, as well as England’s Marcus Rashford, Luke Shaw and Harry Maguire. And Christian Eriksen, Raphael Varane, Cristiano Ronaldo, Bruno Fernandes are among the 14 players.
Chelsea will have Thiago Silva, as well as England’s Mason Mount, Raheem Sterling, and Edouard Mendy, Kai Havertz are among the 12 Chelsea players who will be involved.
Harry Kane and Eric Dier have been named in England’s squad from Tottenham Hotspur, and Romero, Lloris are among the 11 players.
Arsenal will have Aaron Ramsdale and Bukayo Saka, and Gabriel Jesus and Gabriel Martinelli with Brazil, and Takehiro Tomiyasu are among the 9 players.
Manchester City will have most players at Premier League to the World Cup at Qatar. Kyle Walker, John Stones, Kalvin Phillips, Phil Foden and Jack Grealish with England. And Nathan Ake, Aymeric Laporte, Rodri, Kevin De Bruyne, Ilkay Gundogan, Ederson, Joao Cancelo, Bernardo Silva are among 16 players.
Premier League clubs with most players at World Cup
• Manchester City – 16
• Manchester United – 14
• Chelsea – 12
• Tottenham Hotspur – 11
• Arsenal – 9
• Liverpool – 7
• Fulham – 6
• Brentford – 6
• Leicester – 6
• Nottingham Forest – 6
• Newcastle United – 5
• West Ham United – 5
• Brighton and Hove Albion – 5
• Aston Villa – 4
• Everton – 4
• Wolverhampton Wanderers – 4
• Leeds United – 3
• Bournemouth – 2
• Crystal Palace – 1
• Southampton – 1
Liverpool players not at the World Cup
The Reds players who won’t be at the World Cup will take part in a mid-season training camp in Dubai. Something Klopp is referring to as another pre-season, before a vital second period of the campaign.
Caoimhin Kelleher, Adrian, Joe Gomez, Kostas Tsimikas, Calvin Ramsay, Andy Robertson, Joel Matip, Nat Phillips, Thiago, Stefan Bajcetic, James Milner, Naby Keita, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Curtis Jones, Harvey Elliott, Arthur (injured) Fabio Carvalho, Roberto Firmino, Mohamed Salah, Luis Diaz, Diogo Jota (injured) not involved.