Thread by @ColmVHayes

🧵 Pre-match press conference thread Gameweek 18 [Thursday]

🐦 Liverpool

📢 Jurgen Klopp on injuries: "No new injury problems after the [Aston Villa] game [but it's] not that a lot would come back for the [Leicester] game..."

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📢 Klopp on injuries: "...apart from Ibou [Konate]. He is now training with us, he will be available now as well.

"So, positive for this moment but we know it will be a tough game."

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📢 Klopp on when new signing Cody Gakpo could be available: "There might be a chance for Brentford [GW19] but I think not really, to be honest. Because obviously the first of January is a bank holiday and then all the papers - which we don't have to..."

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📢 Klopp on when new signing Gakpo could be available: "...sign but some other people [do] - will have to be signed on the 2nd [before] lunchtime.

"I'm not too positive that that will happen but we will not rush it anyway. So, probably Wolves [FA Cup]."

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📢 Klopp on Gakpo: "The position he played most often is obviously the left wing, that's clear.

"But he can play different positions. He played for Holland different positions, he played for [PSV] Eindhoven different positions so that's all fine..."

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📢 Klopp on Gakpo: "...he can play all four positions up front, whatever you play.

"If you play 4-2-3-1, he can play all four positions. If you play 4-3-3, he can play the winger.

"In 4-4-2, he can play the wing and the striker position..."

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📢 Klopp on Gakpo: "...so there's so many things he can play. [And] he's still very young. He was in a really good run of form, not only in the league but at the World Cup as well. Obviously Holland had not a striker-friendly approach at the World Cup..."

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📢 Klopp on Gakpo: "...let me say it like this. So it was very well organised, difficult to play against but not creating like 50 chances a game – it was not about that.

"That's why there, in a different role where he had to defend a lot..."

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📢 Klopp on Gakpo: "...he did really well. But the position he probably would say himself he prefers to play is the left wing in a 4-3-3.

"For us it's clear, he can play the other positions. We know that and that's why he was so interesting for us."

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🔨 West Ham

📢 David Moyes on Scamacca: "Gianluca has done a little bit of training, so we’ll see how he is and monitor him.

"He is probably lacking a little bit of match fitness, which would be my biggest worry but he has done..."

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📢 Moyes on Scamacca: "...a bit of training so hopefully he will be okay."

On Aguerd: "Nayef is still coming back from illness, which we are trying to get him over. He’s had a few days training, which is helping him but..."

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📢 Moyes on Aguerd: "...he has lost a bit of weight from the World Cup so we’re trying to build him back up. If I can get Nayef involved, I will but I’ll make a decision tomorrow. If you’re asking me if he’s ready, I don’t believe he’s quite ready yet."

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🐝 Brentford

📢Thomas Frank on Kristoffer Ajer and Aaron Hickey: "They're not ready for selection, unfortunately.

"Ajer trained fully with us today [Thursday], so it’s very nice to have him in the training group..."

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📢Thomas Frank on Aaron Hickey and Ajer: "...Hickey is getting closer to full training with us, so they’re progressing well and they’re actually a little bit ahead of schedule. That's positive. The medical guys have done a top job..."

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📢Frank on Hickey and Ajer: "...with Hickey, we can hope for something against West Ham [in the FA Cup] but it’ll still be tough to make.

"Kristoffer, he’s more likely to make that West Ham game."

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📢Frank on other injuries: "[Thomas] Strakosha is getting closer, he was involved in the bigger squad against Tottenham but didn’t make it to the bench.

"Shandon [Baptiste] is still out with a groin injury..."

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📢Frank on other injuries: "...and Frank [Onyeka] won’t play - he’s got a hamstring injury."

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🌲 Nottingham Forest

📢 Steve Cooper on Morgan Gibbs-White: "We’re working with him hard and we’re trying to push him without risk of further damage, because that wouldn’t be good at all. It’s a little bit ongoing..."

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📢 Cooper on Gibbs-White [calf]: "...in terms of getting him back. We’ve got a game in a few days but we’ve also got a busy period after that. We have to bear all of those things in mind."

On Lingard [hamstring]: "Jesse walked off..."

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📢 Cooper on Lingard [hamstring]: "...the other night and we’re still waiting for that to settle down, in terms of the exact damage, if any at all..."

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📢 Cooper on injuries: "...we’ll give everybody - those two boys [Gibbs-White and Lingard], plus some other kicks and knocks from the [Man Utd] game - the best chance we can to get them available for Chelsea..."

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📢 Cooper on injuries: "...it’s something you don’t want, an injury list.

"Unfortunately Cheikhou [Kouyate] is going to be out for quite a little while with the injury he picked up at the World Cup..."

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📢 Cooper on injuries: "...and those two guys [Gibbs-White and Lingard] maybe.

"And some of the longer-term ones are maybe taking a little bit longer than what we would have liked to get back - [Moussa] Niakhate, Omar Richards..."

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📢 Cooper on injuries: "...and Giulian Biancone has picked up a long-term injury as well."

When speaking about January transfer window: "The reality is, Morgan Gibbs-White is injured."

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