ADAM Lallana is relishing the prospect of working under Jurgen Klopp following the sacking of Brendan Rodgers.
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In addition, James Milner and Mamadou Sakho, who had been away on global duty, returned, while Kolo Toure and Joao Carlos Teixeira also featured.
However, Klopp’s arrival on Merseyside appears to have thrown a spanner in the works with the German sending scouts to watch Neves in action for his country against Hungary on Friday.
“I have no intention whatsoever to lure Dortmund’s stars to Liverpool”, Klopp said.
“We are now in October and I still don’t know how many games there are until winter”.
Klopp, who has reportedly signed a three-year contract, also said Fenway Sports Group, the club’s owners, did not expect him to deliver either a trophy or Champions League qualification in his first season. But he’s going to have to prove his fitness to be in the manager’s long-term plans.
Following his £25million move from Southampton last summer, Lallana struggled to replicate the form that saw the Reds invest such a sum of money in him, due to an injury plagued season.
“If you want to portray me like Jesus, but then the next day say, “no, he can’t walk on water”, then we have a problem”.
At the other end of the field, Liverpool’s defenders are often criticised and the goals-against column never made for pleasant reading under Rodgers, but there are a few – this writer among them – who believe the defensive fragility is more a result of the team structure and coaching than the personnel.
But while price may prove to be a big enough challenge for Liverpool, reported interest from Barcelona will make landing the 26-year-old Aubameyang even harder.
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“Liverpool have not had any success for a long time and they’ve changed the manager all the time”. According to Express, he intends to sign one of his former players and current Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski.
