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• Liverpool manager fears burnout ahead of tough season
• FK Rabotnicki ties will be ‘unbelievably difficult’

August is still a week away and Roy Hodgson has yet to oversee his first competitive game at Anfield but, already, Liverpool’s new manager is talking darkly of burnout and “unbelievably difficult” challenges ahead.

The first arrives on Thursday in Skopje, the Macedonian capital, at the home of FK