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Jürgen Klopp has held his first training session as Liverpool manager, the German leading a group that featured nine first-team players including Philippe Coutinho, James Milner and Daniel Sturridge at the club’s Melwood base yesterday afternoon.

Before the session, which began at 2.30PM, Klopp gathered the players and spoke with them for around five minutes. The 48-year-old then oversaw a period scheduled to last up to 75 minutes and for which Klopp was assisted by Peter Krawietz and Pep Lijnders, two of his coaches. Zeljko Buvac, Klopp’s No2, is yet to join him at the club.

Dejan Lovren, Kolo Touré, Lucas Leiva, Mamadou Sakho, Alberto Moreno and João Teixeira were the other squad members under the new manager’s supervision. Most of the first-team players are not yet back from international duty.

Klopp, the first German to manage Liverpool, has his first match in charge when the club travel on Saturday to Tottenham Hotspur for the early kick-off. — Guardian