Klopp has no plans to poach Dortmund stars

The German has reiterated his desire to work with the squad he has inherited from predecessor Brendan Rodgers - most of whom he has not met as they are on international duty.

Unsurprisingly he has been linked with many of the stars who were part of his success at Dortmund but played down the chances of making moves for the likes of Mats Hummels, Neven Subotic, Ilkay Gundogan and Marco Reus.

Asked about raiding his previous club he told German newspaper Bild: "That's not my intention at all."

On Friday at the press conference to officially present him as the new manager Klopp spoke in glowing terms of his current squad and how he felt they were capable of performing at a higher level.

The 48-year-old spent part of the weekend at the club's academy watching the under-18s' victory over Stoke and arrived at the first-team's Melwood training ground on Monday morning to take his first session with the players available to him.

That is what he will concentrate on in the near future and has not explored what money will be available to him for the January transfer window after Rodgers spent almost £80million in the summer and close to £300m during just over three years in charge.

"I'm not interested in that," he added. "It's already October and I don't even know how many matches there are until winter

"But there are a few and so we'll be looking at our own players first."

Source: PA