Stat Attack: Why James Milner Will Be Irreplaceable Under Jurgen Klopp

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has no plans to poach any of his former players from Borussia Dortmund and insists he is not interested in what money is available in the January transfer window. The German manager who was responsible for dethroning Bayern Munich’s Bundesliga monopoly with his former club winning them back-to-back titles took more pride in helping turn the £3m Polish global into one of the world’s top strikers.

Liverpool fans have been more excited about Jurgen Klopp’s arrival at Anfield than a group of pre-teen girls at the possibility of Justin Bieber singing at their middle school dance.

“Is Liverpool’s potential good enough to win the league?”

“I have spoken to them both because we always spend a lot of time individually with players to find out how they are and how they’re doing at their club”.

“We haven’t lost in the league since the first game of the season”.

Rodgers however didn’t really know what to do with the former Hoffenheim player and he was thrown out wide whenever he played.

Roy Evans and Roy Hodgson each won just one of their first five matches as Liverpool manager, while Rafa Benitez and Gerard Houllier (after a period as joint-boss with Evans) won two apiece.

Among other rumored transfer targets for Liverpool is Swansea’s Andre Ayew, who the German coach targeted while he was with Dortmund, per a separate Mirror report.

Klopp’s first game in charge will be against Tottenham Hotspur in Saturday’s early kick-off at White Hart Lane.

“Klopp will lead the team attacking, but lead the team attacking in the right way”, said the 40-year-old. But with it came a nervousness, as memories of the final game of last season haunted the fixture, and made it more a case of recovering a few dignity and praying that those dark days were behind us.

“The Liverpool players at England could not wait to get back to start working under him”, said Kane.

In what is a double injury boost, Dejan Lovren was also able to take part in training today for the first time since being stretchered off against Carlisle in the Capital One Cup last month.