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1.12pm BST

Karl Gibbons has been in touch on the subject of Liverpool: “Lots of talk of lack of signings from Liverpool but surely that shows Klopp’s plan for the “kids” to be back up. As we have seen from the past couple of years, there seems to be a good crop coming through. And as we have seen from those fellow perchers from Fergie’s time, giving the kids a go can handsomely pay off.”

1.10pm BST

A bit more Jürgen Klopp, this time on Liverpool’s continuing links with Bayern Munich’s Thiago Alcantara.

If I could invent a word to end speculations I’d be really rich. Did I mention Thiago Alcantara is a very good player a long ago? It’s nice that we are linked with him but that’s all

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