Liverpool fullback Andy Roberston believes that adding stars to their preseason squad will help them prepare for the new season.
The Reds are welcoming back the likes of Alisson Becker, Roberto Firmino and Mohamed Salah as they get ready to challenge for the Premier League title.
Others, such as Naby Keita and Xherdan Shaqiri, will be joining the team at a later date.
"The lads coming back, even if they don't play, it gives you a lift when they train and with the way they go about their business," Robertson told the club's official website.
"It doesn't matter if they play on Wednesday or not, that's completely up to the manager three days in, but that's irrelevant: if they're back in training and back around the place then it makes a difference.
"Mo and Bobby are two of our main men and Alisson was magnificent last season. They are huge characters in the changing room as well so that'll be massive for us, and then Sadio will come back the following week.
"Once we get the whole team back together, and I think Shaq and Naby aren't far off too, they're players that are familiar around the set-up and around the system and that's what we need. The quicker we get all of us back together then hopefully the better.
"But it's not anyone else's fault, the young lads or whatever who have come in, we've all not been good enough and maybe Bobby and Mo and people like that will give us the lift that we need. Hopefully that does happen."