Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp insists the spectacle of empty stadiums will not lessen the intensity of any team if the Premier League gets the go-ahead to resume in June.

Top-flight players are returning to training this week after the clubs voted unanimously to do so at a shareholders’ meeting on Monday, the first significant step in the return to play protocols.

A number of hurdles still need to be overcome but any matches will take place behind closed doors, which was trialled to mixed reviews when the Bundesliga became the first major European league to come back last weekend.

He added: “You should see Melwood, it’s unbelievable. It’s all one-way, so we will not meet.

“We meet on the training pitch and if you can see maybe somebody from the back or if they turn around you can see his face, but then you have to walk because we have to keep distance.

“If you are in the wrong point and want to go to the toilet – which is an outdoor space – then it’s a really long way to the toilet because you cannot just turn around and go back.

“We do whatever we have to do, we do whatever we can do to stay safe.”