“?Liverpool’s charismatic manager Jurgen Klopp has revealed that, for the first time, he is fulfilled with his squad and that there is a conspicuous presence of quality, according to a report in “?Sky Sports.
The German insisted that the team inherited from Brendan Rodgers did not have his mark on it, although after a close season of summer signings, he can now call his Liverpool squad his own.
His Reds team will play AC Milan on Sunday in the International Champions Cup, having offloaded ten players and recruited a further seven, including Georginio Wijnaldum, Sadio Mane, Marko Grujic, Alex Manninger, Lorius Karius, Joel Matip and Ragnar Klavan.
“This is my squad now,” Klopp said.
“After all the transfers”?this time it is my team. There are probably no players here anymore I don’t want. There are no signings I didn’t want, we have not sold anyone I didn’t want to.
“And if you have seen them in training, there is a special quality that we did not have last year.
“Above all, you can see we have created a special atmosphere, not only in our team but with our fans.”
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The former Borussia Dortmund manager insisted that he will not make an predictions ahead of the new campaign and that there are “no excuses” should the Merseysiders fail to challenge for silverware.
“I’m not afraid of making decisions – it’s part of the job,” Klopp added.
“I am happy with my team now – all I can say is we will be a challenger.
“We will fight for everything, for every cup and what will happen in the end we will see.”Certainly at the moment we shouldn’t look for excuses and say things like ‘I need another year’ or things like that.
“We will try everything 100 per cent and see what happens. We built this team only to be successful, not one where we say we will have to wait.”
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