Liverpool and United’s mileage

Jose Mourinho and Jurgen Klopp have made it clear how much they dislike international break, but which manager’s players have travelled the furthest?

Before the September clash with Manchester City, Mourinho expressed his concern at having a lack of control over his squad during the break, a worry echoed by managers throughout the Premier League in recent seasons.

“We are going to lose the others and we don’t know the way they train, the way they recover, the life they are going to have with their national teams.”

Mourinho had Antonio Valencia returning from international duty with Ecuador just a day before their Saturday lunchtime clash with City, and he started at right-back as United lost 2-1 at Old Trafford.

While Klopp spent some of the international week playing bowls, he had more first-team players back at Melwood to train during the break, with only nine of his players off on their travels over the past week-and-a-half.

But the German’s opinion on the matter is no different to Mourinho’s, saying after the narrow win over Swansea earlier this month: “All the players go all over the world, I don’t like it, but it is like it is. But hopefully they come back healthy and we’ll go again.”

Klopp also has the added concern of a potential Georginio Wijnaldum injury, after the Dutchman picked up a knock in the Netherlands’ 1-0 defeat by France on Monday.

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