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Richard Garnett

New signings named in 19-man Liverpool squad for first day of pre-season as big stars missing

Liverpool new boys Fabio Carvalho and Calvin Ramsay will be among 19 players who will begin pre-season training at the AXA Training Centre on Monday.

Preparations for the 2022/23 campaign will get underway in Kirby next week before Jurgen Klopp's squad jets off to the Far East for a tour of Bangkok and Singapore, which starts next weekend.

Joining Carvalho and Ramsay at the training ground on Monday will be Adrian, Ben Davies, Luis Diaz, Harvey Elliott, Roberto Firmino, Joe Gomez, captain Jordan Henderson, Caoimhin Kelleher, Ibrahima Konate, Joel Matip, James Milner, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Nat Phillips, Thiago, Neco Williams, Rhys Williams and Sepp Van den Berg.

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Players excluded from the list are ones who were on international duty at the end of last season, including the likes of Mohamad Salah, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Andy Robertson, Virgil van Dijk, Diogo Jota and new signing Darwin Nunez. Theses players will return later in the week.

The Far East tour will see the Reds play Manchester United on July 12 before facing Crystal Palace three days later on July 15. They will then travel to Germany to take on RB Leipzig on July 21 and Austria to take on Red Bull Salzburg on July 27.

The Reds will then face Manchester City in the traditional season curtain-raiser, the Community Shield, at Leicester's King Power Stadium on July 30, but also have a final pre-season game scheduled at Anfield against Strasbourg a day later.

Full squad for first day of pre-season: Adrian, Carvalho, Davies, Diaz, Elliott, Firmino, Gomez, Henderson, Kelleher, Konate, Matip, Milner, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Phillips, Ramsay, Thiago, N. Williams, R. Williams, Van den Berg.

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