When Jurgen Klopp was quizzed about the battle between Andy Robertson and Kostas Tsimikas for the left-back berth in his Liverpool team last week, he instead chose to focus on his overall strength in depth when sending a warning to his squad.
”We need brilliant players and these boys, over the last few years, have done an absolutely incredible job,” the German told reporters on Friday. “With ‘competition’ in different positions, it forced them and stretched their limits. It’s absolutely unbelievable the development they had.
“We didn’t bring in different players to create competition, we brought in players to have solutions in different situations. That means the boys have to deal with it now, that’s the job they have to do.
