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Jurgen Klopp has given his non-international players the week off after the Liverpool boss decided not to hold a warm weather training camp.

Instead Klopp has taken his staff away to Tenerife to relax and prepare for the Reds' make or break final stretch of the campaign.

In the two previous years of his Anfield reign Klopp has used the March international break to work with a depleted squad in the Canary Islands.

However, with 16 senior first-team players currently away representing their countries, Klopp felt there was little to gain from holding a camp this time around.

He would have been left working with the likes of Loris Karius, Danny Ward, Alberto Moreno, Nathaniel Clyne, Joel Matip, James Milner and Danny Ings.

Bolstering his ranks with Academy players wasn't really an option on this occasion as the likes of Adam Lewis and Curtis Jones are also away on youth international duty.

As a result the remaining senior players have been given an extended break and club staff have gone to Tenerife.

Klopp's squad will reconvene at Melwood early next week to begin their preparations for the Premier League trip to Crystal Palace on March 31.

That will kick off a crunch run of matches for the Reds, who currently sit third in the Premier League and are in the quarter-finals of the Champions League.

The Merseyside derby at Goodison on April 7 is sandwiched by Liverpool's two-legged European tie with Manchester City.