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Liverpool boss Klopp insists 'very valuable' Keita, Oxlade-Chamberlain must stay

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has intimated he expects Naby Keita and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain will stay.

Both midfielders have been linked with a move away.

But Klopp says: "Very valuable! It's all about being available and using the momentum and stuff like this, that's football. It doesn't make you a worse player or whatever. Without luck in life, you are really on the wrong side of a lot of things, and when you get injured in the wrong moment, the football train never waits. So we have to be really on top of that, that we try to keep them really in the best possible shape, stuff like this. But the quality of the players was never in doubt.

"Come on, if you think about these two players and you go through the strengths they have, that's a book of its own, you can just write a book about that. Great to have them. That's life and that's football – you get the chance, you better use it. It will not be the last, especially not in our case the last, but it makes more sense to use it immediately.

"Then you have another game, another game and another game, that's how it is. But there are obviously a lot of good football players in our squad and we will change independent of performances in the last game, just for intensity reasons, but that's obviously now a little bit early.

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