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Roberto Firmino has hailed Jurgen Klopp as “a football scholar” as he revealed how the Liverpool manager has played a key role in helping him adapt to English football.

The 25-year-old has proved a huge success this season playing as a striker, joint top of the Reds’ scoring charts with six, four of them in the Premier League, while he has also registered four assists.

Firmino will be part of the Brazil squad for tomorrow morning’s (2.30am UK time) World Cup qualifier with Peru and spoke about his Liverpool career in an interview with the country’s O Globo newspaper.

Firmino praised the impact of Liverpool’s summer signings with the Reds bringing in Joel Matip, Sadio Mane and Loris Karius among others this summer.

But he saved most of his praise for his manager.

“Liverpool have a way of work that has everything to succeed. The timely signings to strengthen our squad were well planned and improved our football.

“English football is a bit faster and the technical level is higher than in Germany, but a big factor is that there are more games, which makes the intensity bigger.”

Firmino joined the Reds having spent several years at Hoppenheim in the Bundesliga where he was well known to Klopp as a dangerous opponent.

Nowadays they have the chance to work together.

“It’s clear that in a change of team and country, there is always an adaptation process. Fortunately, the opportunity to work with Jurgen Klopp was a great help in my adaptation to Liverpool.

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“He is a coach who well knows the squad, the league that he plays, and studies the opponents before each match. The English League, in my opinion, is the most competitive League, and not by chance last season a team without expectations (Leicester) managed to win the title.

“He (Klopp) is friends with everyone who surrounds him, works with great respect and has the affection of everyone wherever he goes. On the other hand, he is very demanding, both with himself and with everyone who is part of our daily work, on and off the field.

“He is a football scholar, he analyses each match in every detail that may exist.”

Liverpool are spending £30,000 to cover part of the cost of a private jet to get Firmino and Phillipe Coutinho back to Merseyside after international duty as quickly as possible ahead of the trip to Southampton on Saturday.