Jurgen Klopp has declared that Liverpool have effectively replaced this summer’s transfer business with a spate of new contracts for their star men.

The Reds have been quiet in the market since the latest window opened, with the £1.3million capture of teenage defender Sepp van den Berg from PEC Zwolle representing their only signing thus far.

The Merseyside club have, however, been busy tying down key players in the last 12 months, with the likes of Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane and Trent Alexander-Arnold among those to have penned fresh terms in that period.

And Klopp believes that simply ensuring a Champions League-winning squad stays together is just as important as adding new talent.

He told ESPN FC: “That’s actually our transfers, these are our transfers.

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“I’m pretty sure nobody is interested in it really because, how it is: you have a player, he’s good, you want to keep him, if he signs a new contract then for a few people it means only that he’s a bit more expensive if you want to sell him. It doesn’t mean anything.

“In our case it was [that] these are our transfers. These new contracts, keeping these boys here, was a strong, strong signal for the outside world. It’s a wonderful sign, to be honest.

“I like the fact that these boys are really in a good football age, they won this cup, which is good. It helps of course because it increases your basis.

“[Before], ‘Are you a winner?’ People question you and we are all influenced by the outside world so if you don’t win anything you can’t say, ‘I’m a winner but it didn’t work out yet’.

“On the other hand, to go through the darker moments together is very, very important. You have to lose big to realise you are not a loser. You realise it happened, yes, but you can still be a winner.

“All these things made us stronger and I’m happy that they keep these boys together and they went through all these things.

“This group apart from Ali, Fabinho, Naby, the players we signed last year, went through a very dark Champions League defeat to a very bright moment in Madrid.

"We lost against Madrid, we won in Madrid, it was like meant to be.”

Klopp’s search for marginal gains has seen him make big changes to Liverpool’s backroom staff since his appointment in October 2015.

But the German’s attitude to further improvement in that department mirrors his views on the playing squad - namely, that continuity is key.

He added: “You don’t have to change for changing. You have to improve things and the same person doing the same job for another year means he’s better in the job - that’s improvement.

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“It’s not about bringing new people and stuff like that, it’s really about all of us using the experience that we made for being better than before.

"All this experience, all these better people throwing their knowledge together, we will be better.

“That’s the plan, that’s how it is with football players but that’s how it is with the backroom staff as well.”