Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers says he's ready to withdraw Raheem Sterling from the frontline.
Rodgers has now confirmed his star man will need a rest, probably early in the new year.
He said: "There will be a period, that what was always in the plan.
"Of course there is the short term, but you have got to think in the longer term.
"He's a kid coming off the back end of a long season last season where he played a lot of games, and then go on travelling to a World Cup.
"I think a lot of the players that were away and coming back, it takes a bit of time to get going again."
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