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Jurgen Klopp has revealed that 15 Premier League coaches are in favor of introducing the five sub-rule for the remainder of the season, following a meeting on Wednesday.
The conversation about player demands this season continues as clubs suffer further injuries due to the busy schedule of matches, with Liverpool among the hardest hit.
Joe Gomez, Jordan Henderson and Trent Alexander-Arnold are last on the treatment table for non-impact problems, leaving Klopp to call on fringe and young players to fill their ranks.
Klopp, of course, is not complaining about the situation in terms of his staff, but the German has led calls for the return of the sub-five rule after a vote against keeping it before the campaign started.
People like Pep Guardiola, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Frank Lampard have joined. Klopp publicly backs the change, while Aston Villa manager Dean Smith is among those who dismiss requests for reintroduction.
Brendan Rodgers is believed to have changed his stance in favor of the five sub-rule rule in recent weeks, and speaking ahead of Liverpool’s clash with Leicester, Klopp called for an informal vote among managers at their meeting Wednesday that saw 15-5. in favor. .
“If you ask a player, as long as he can walk, he wants to play. That is good. My job is to find out if you underestimate the situation, overestimate yourself or whatever, “he told reporters.
“But the guys are usually fit and used to a lot of intensity during the season.
“We use all the sources that we can have. Most of the things we are used to doing alone and have to do alone, but we also need outside help.
“We don’t talk about ourselves as Liverpool or whatever, we have to make changes again with the substitutes, we have to talk about the schedule and all that kind of thing.
“Because we have our hands, from a specific point, tied, because we can’t do it faster.
“At Christmas, we’ll play again in less than 48 hours and we’ll have this discussion and everyone looks at me, ‘he’s talking about it again.
But this is from a physical point of view. It is possible, but really dangerous. What we do during the season is practically the same; it is possible, but really dangerous.
“With the discussions about, and I take it very seriously, dementia and concussions of the head, if people had talked about it 50 years ago, we wouldn’t have to discuss it today.
“Now we are in a really difficult situation, where the players are more threatened than before due to the situation the whole world is in, so we must make sure we help as much as we can.
“We really have to talk about these things because otherwise nothing will change and things have to change.
“And thank God, we had this coaches meeting two days ago, and if we had voted that day, it would have been 15-5 in favor of five substitutes.
“But we couldn’t vote because managers can’t do that. If he had, it was 11-9 in favor of three substitutes. [in September] at 15-5 in favor of five substitutes.
“So now, hopefully, the decision makers can take the next steps.”
