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Klopp admits Liverpool are ‘working’ on deals before transfer deadline

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– Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has said he wants his players to improve their levels of “passion and effort” after failing to win their opening three Premier League games.

– The Merseyside club drew their first two games against Fulham and Crystal Palace before slipping to a 2-1 defeat against fierce rivals Manchester United on Monday.

– Liverpool welcome newly promoted Bournemouth to Anfield on Saturday and Klopp has urged his team to raise their game for the upcoming matches.

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– “We have to improve immediately,” he told a news conference on Friday. “We need 100% effort if not a little bit more, plus passion. It’s the highest level football. It’s all fine.

– “The things we achieved were never easy, so no-one should expect it should be easy now. Let’s go for it together.”

– He added: “My job is to put things right, I could learn a lot from life when things didn’t go well. It’s part of the job, to regroup, to find a perfect way together again to fight the outside world and not suffer.

– “We’ve played much worse games at United but what was disappointing was we should have won this game… with 70% possession against a counter-attacking team.

– Klopp also played down any suggestion of a rift between James Milner and Virgil van Dijk after the two clashed following Jadon Sancho’s opening goal for United.

– “Obviously, everyone saw it,” Klopp added. “I was a pretty emotional player in my time, and I had these kinds of conversations on the pitch more often than not with my best friends.

– “There is nothing to clarify, really. It’s a situation when you are discussing things on the pitch. Especially nowadays, with all the cameras, then it looks much more serious that it is. It’s no problem at all.”

– Klopp also confirmed that Joel Matip, Thiago Alcantara, Curtis Jones and Diogo Jota are getting closer to fitness but are still set to miss the Bournemouth clash.

– Liverpool have signed Darwin Nunez, Fabio Carvalho, Calvin Ramsay this summer and Klopp said the club would be open to more arrivals before the transfer window closes on Sept. 1.

– “We are actually working constantly on these kind of things,” he said. “They are too expensive or not the right player.

– “One thing stays important — it needs to be the right player. We are working but we will see if something will happen or not. I don’t know.”

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