Liverpool boss excited ahead of important pre-season

Jurgen Klopp believes pre-season is a vital time to grow team morale ahead of the new Premier League season for Liverpool.

The Reds are set to embark on their first campaign back in the Champions League after a fourth-placed finish last season, and Klopp is set to splash the cash to build a squad capable of competing.

Mohamed Salah has already arrived through the door for a club record £36.8m from Roma, and they are supposedly chasing Southampton centre-back Virgil van Dijk.

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Liverpool’s pre-season programme takes them to Hong Kong, Germany and the Republic of Ireland and Klopp hopes to use that time away from home to help players bed in – both on and off the pitch.

“That’s why you go to training camps, usually, because they are then all together 24 hours [a day]; having breakfast, lunch and dinner together, spare time together and all that stuff,” he said.

“It’s very important. You can ask each new player who came in last year how he felt on his first day and the day after the camp or day after pre-season, that’s a very decisive period.

“The closer you can get in this period, the better it is.”