Jürgen Klopp, the Liverpool manager, is expecting some angry players knocking on his door this season.

As Klopp settles on his favoured starting XI for next weekend’s Premier League opener at Watford, high profile names are sweating on places.

Klopp’s selection against Bayern Munich in midweek demonstrated that when he has a fully fit squad his midfield and attacking options are plentiful. Adam Lallana, Gini Wijnaldum and Daniel Sturridge all started on the bench against Bayern in the Allianz Arena.

“If we stay together like this there will be a few hard decisions because they can’t start all together,” said Klopp.

“Then we have to see how this works. Be angry at me no problem, stay confident, that is important, then three days there is another game so be there again. There are a lot of challenges.