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Liverpool hire Bayern Munich fitness coach Andreas Kornmayer for 2016-17
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Liverpool have lined up Bayern Munich’s fitness coach, Andreas Kornmayer, to become their head of fitness and conditioning next season.

Kornmayer, 41, has worked for his home-town club for more than a decade and progressed through the ranks before being promoted to first-team duties in 2010.

He has worked for Louis van Gaal, Jupp Heynckes and Pep Guardiola over the past six years but, with a summer of upheaval in store at the Allianz Arena as the Spanish coach heads for Manchester City, Kornmayer has accepted Jürgen Klopp’s offer to head Liverpool’s fitness team.

Klopp has admired Kornmayer’s work at Bayern for several years, albeit reluctantly as he believes their fitness levels were a factor in Heynckes’s team winning the treble at his Borussia Dortmund squad’s expense in 2013.

“Don’t forget,” the Liverpool manager said this year, “the 2013 treble-winning team of Bayern was unbelievably strong and they had all their players fit until the end.”

Kornmayer, who will take up his post at Anfield in the summer, replaces Dr Ryland Morgans, who ended a four-year stint at Liverpool last month.

Morgans’ contract was due to expire at the end of the season and his first-team duties have been taken on by Andy O’Boyle, the Liverpool Under-21s fitness coach.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/201 ... -kornmayer

Mr Kornmayer could actually be one of our most important acquisitions of the summer.
We all know how important fitness and conditioning is to Jurgen's gegenpressing style of play so you can bet your bottom dollar that Jurgen thought about this a lot and chose this fella carefully.
He must be good at his job.

Judging by the injury rate we have experienced this season it would be difficult to do a worse job than the current fitness coach!

Of course there are other factors that lead to injury... but c'mon we eclipsed Arsenal this season for the most players injured.

killerp » Wed Apr 13, 2016 10:21 am wrote:Judging by the injury rate we have experienced this season it would be difficult to do a worse job than the current fitness coach!

We have a fitness coach? 

I need to see youtube clips of him in action before I comment.