Three Liverpool World Cup stars join pre-season and will begin training immediately

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SportFootballLiverpool FCLiverpool returned to Chicago after their 4-2 win over Sunderland in Nashville on Saturday night with Andoni Iraola revealing a trio of big names would be waiting for themFlorian Wirtz, Ryan Gravenberch and Alexander Isak have reported for duty at Liverpool's pre-season base in Chicago, Andoni Iraola has confirmed.The trio were granted over three weeks off following their respective World Cup exertions but are now ready to train with their club colleagues once more. Liverpool flew back to Chicago immediately after their 4-2 win over Sunderland at Nashville's GEODIS Park on Saturday and Iraola revealed that the trio of big names would be waiting for the squad when they touched down in Illinois."They are already there in Chicago," Iraola confirmed.

"They are waiting for us. They will start training from tomorrow with us and we still have two more games."I hope we use them properly and we go [forward] improving slowly, slowly the things that today didn't work."On the victory over the Black Cats, Iraola added: "I think it was different halves.

We kind of balanced both teams, and you could feel the difference."A lot of things to correct, obviously, it’s the first day. So, we lacked some freshness."But it will give us a good starting point to improve things."Liverpool will meet Championship side Wrexham at Yankee Stadium in New York on Thursday before concluding their tour in Chicago against Leeds United on August 2.Those sides also met on Saturday night, with the Championship outfit running out 3-2 winners at Raymond James Stadium in Florida.Choose Liverpool Echo as a 'Preferred Source' on Google News for quick access to the news you value.Liverpool FCAndoni Iraola