'It's not cool!' – Jurgen Klopp provides injury updates on Liverpool stars Mohamed Salah, Thiago Alcantara and Dominik Szoboszlai

Jurgen Klopp provided crucial injury updates on Liverpool stars Mohamed Salah, Thiago Alcantara and Dominik Szoboszlai ahead of hosting Burnley.

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Salah yet to recover from muscle injurySzoboszlai & Alcantara also sidelinedBradley unavailable due to personal reasonsWHAT HAPPENED?

The German manager revealed that all three players will miss the upcoming match at Anfield due to injury concerns. Salah remains sidelined due to a muscular issue that he picked up while representing Egypt in the Africa Cup of Nations. While Thiago sustained a muscle injury during his return as a substitute in the previous weekend's defeat against Arsenal after a lengthy lay-off.

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While speaking on Salah's condition, Klopp told reporters: "Right direction. We hope, but we don’t know, we hope that he can be part of parts of training next week. But we have to see, he is going through all the phases now and it’s positive. It’s either next week or the week after.”

The coach insisted that Thiago's injury is not "big" but grave enough to sideline him for a considerable period, adding: "Thiago, obviously, is not cool. Everything looked absolutely fantastic in training. We showed quite a lot of things, I think, on LFCTV so you can see the training moments and it looks outstanding so you think: ‘Come on, take him, we have the opportunity, let him play a few minutes’ and then…It’s a muscle issue, we don’t know the extent yet. We have to wait there a little bit, but it’s not cool, of course. It was really not good news for him, for us, for everybody. On top of losing the game already and having that is not good.

“Yes [I expect him to play again this season], but we didn’t really think about that, in the moment we just treat the injury and get a full assessment done and knowing exactly where it came from. It’s not the intensity and stuff like this, so there are different things.

“It’s just the normal procedure and it would not be a big story if he wouldn’t have been out for that long a time. That’s how it is. It’s not a big, big injury, definitely not, but it’s obviously something nobody needed.”

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Szoboszlai, the Hungary captain, missed Liverpool's recent match against Arsenal and will also be absent for the upcoming Premier League fixture against Burnley due to a recurrence of a muscle injury. Given the repeat occurrence of the injury, there is no clear timeline for Szoboszlai's return to action.

Klopp revealed that he is unsure whether Szoboszlai will be fit to face Chelsea in the Carabao Cup final on February 25 and added: "Dom is running outside in the moment, in the winter rain, and is not ready for tomorrow, of course not. Then we have to see. It’s like it always is with these tendon things; pretty quickly the player is pain-free and then it’s all about… it’s muscle [and] it’s pretty much the same that he had before.

“That’s obviously really not good that he got that again. He didn’t feel a great issue but when you see then the pictures you just have to take him out and now we are fighting for days, if you want. Is it Brentford, is it the [Carabao Cup] final or is it after the final? I don’t know at the moment.”

MORE ABSENTEES AGAINST BURNLEY

Klopp confirmed that Conor Bradley will be unavailable due to the passing of his father, while Ibrahima Konate is suspended. However, Wataru Endo is set to be available after Japan's exit from the AFC Asian Cup.