{"id":45025,"date":"2025-07-29T12:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T12:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/45025\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T12:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T12:09:09","slug":"konate-on-how-tough-pre-season-will-prepare-them-to-compete-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/45025\/","title":{"rendered":"Konat\u00e9 on How \u201cTough\u201d Pre-Season will Prepare them to Compete Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ibrahima Konat\u00e9 spoke to Liverpoolfc.com<\/a> following the first of the club\u2019s friendlies on their Asian tour: \u201cLast season we came back with a new manager and he had a very good idea and he said before the season started what we have to do to win the Premier League.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just followed what he said and at the end we had a good result for the club. I think this season will be more difficult.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause for sure we are happy and we don\u2019t have to forget last season, but we have to take the good parts of last season as well as the bad parts where we did not really great and work on that.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were champions last season and it\u2019s finished now, we have to go again and try to do something even better than last season. That\u2019s why the pre-season is very important.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know it\u2019s very difficult for everyone but we need these tough sessions to be ready for the season.\u201d<\/p>\n

The high expectations for physical and mental workloads in training is something Konat\u00e9 relishes:<\/p>\n

\u201cFor sure, we can see [that] in the training videos that everyone can see.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I think this is very good for us and we need that. We need to train very hard for this season because I think every team wants to beat us \u2013 and we want to protect our trophy from last season as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen we need to work in these hard conditions with this hard weather. Just to be ready for the season because the season will be very difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Konat\u00e9 knows what to expect, he agreed that it is important for veterans to help newcomers, like fellow Frenchman Hugo Ekitike, adapt:<\/p>\n

Yes, yes, yes, for sure,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is normal if you are older than someone who comes to the club, for sure you have to look after him.<\/p>\n

\u201cHelp him to adapt if he needs anything in the city or in the club, just to be there for him. That\u2019s what I\u2019m doing with him.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not only me. For sure you have some people who are more leaders than other players, but we are here for every new player to help them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The goal, he thinks, is not to intimidate but to prepare the team for the challenges ahead:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe brought in some great players to this team but I don\u2019t want to put some pressure on them.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just have to give them the time to adapt because they don\u2019t know the Premier League now. But I\u2019m sure with this team, with how the people in the team are around them, this adaptation will be easy for sure.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to train very hard to be ready because the Premier League is very difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ibrahima Konat\u00e9 spoke to Liverpoolfc.com following the first of the club\u2019s friendlies on their Asian tour: \u201cLast season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[35683,32030,424,4474,35680,3450,35684,10597,2105,16728,35682,5190,403,99,1596,21679,826,35681,6821],"class_list":["post-45025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-again","tag-compete","tag-front-page","tag-how","tag-konat","tag-liverpool","tag-liverpool-preseason-coverage","tag-offside","tag-on","tag-pre","tag-prepare","tag-season","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-the","tag-them","tag-to","tag-tough","tag-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}