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Jurgen Klopp has spoken a fair bit in the last week about looking to strengthen the squad.

And I think Liverpool will. However, I'm not sure the incomings will be top shelf.

With Virgil van Dijk, everybody now knows Southampton would rather sell to Chelsea, Arsenal or Manchester City than Liverpool, so I'm not convinced that will happen.

The Southampton situation is strange. I don't know what we have done to upset Southampton to the fact they are being so stubborn about it.

Southampton are a selling club, and it's not just Liverpool they sell to. They sell to everybody. They let their managers go to everybody.

I still think we'll sign a few decent players before the transfer window shuts, but I'd like to see van Dijk, though. I really would.

He looks Champions League level. They talk are very big on personalities in Holland, especially in their central defenders.

Just look at Ronald Koeman's management career, and he's had huge success with centre-backs because he's big on personality.

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Van Dijk is a bit like Mats Hummels in a way, the same type. He has the big personality that Klopp has spoken about Liverpool needing in defence.

Everybody is talking about the Reds' defence and set-piece defending, and I can imagine Klopp is thinking 'this is getting on my nerves now'.

But he has no thought of changing the way he approaches games. That was on his cv. That's his way.

Is it about personnel? Joel Matip is not aggressive. Dejan Lovren, at least he does go to head it.

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When I was in Denmark, we never headed the ball. When you come to England, you have to learn.

On Saturday against Watford, for that first corner not one of our outfield players wanted to attack the ball.

Against Hoffenheim, at least half of the players showed willing. That was better.

It's an art, the art of knowing where to be and getting to the ball first. We haven't got enough players with that nous.

In midweek, you could see signs Klopp is trying to deal with our weakness by being aggressive.

Take the last-minute free-kick from which Hoffenheim should really have scored. We held an incredibly high line. It then was down to it being a good delivery, and it was, so it became a 50-50 chance.

I'd sooner we dropped back six yards and were facing the ball when it came in.

Moreno's going nowhere under Klopp

As long as Jurgen Klopp is Liverpool manager there will always be room for someone with the qualities of Alberto Moreno.

Mauricio Pochettino wouldn't entertain him, nor would Jose Mourinho.

Klopp can see positives in Moreno's strengths which is pace and causing havoc wherever he is on the pitch.

By contrast, we haven't seen Andy Robertson yet, but perhaps that isn't a surprise.

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I imagine the type of training he did at Hull City was fairly static stuff whereas at Liverpool it would be 100mph.

I think he will need a little bit of work, but he has the potential. He has an eye for going forward and is better defensively than the other left-backs.

Mind you, if I was James Milner, I'd be a bit upset I hadn't started a game yet this season.

Reds need to take control the centre stage

We are missing control in midfield. We miss a player who can put his foot on the ball and dictate the play for a short while.

It's not about legs, as the trio who have started the two games so far are all strong runners with decent motors, even if none of them are particularly sharp movers.

Does Jordan Henderson look like he is over his injury mentally? I'm not sure. He doesn't seem as free-flowing as he was.

Is he holding back or is it tactics from the manager? It might just be rustiness, it does take time to overcome injuries.

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But overall, something's not quite right. So far, we've not really controlled a game.

We can cope with an end-to-end game. We know that. But as a fan, you sometimes want periods where not much happens, 20 minutes here and there. That's where we are struggling a bit.

Can Liverpool have that control given the way they play? Probably not.

Someone like Xabi Alonso would never be of interest to Jurgen Klopp.

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Klopp wants players who are always in the game, whereas Alonso would be someone who is outside the game and plays passes into the game.

Klopp, as we have learned from his time at Anfield, plays with high risks. We just have to accept that. We knew what we were getting when he arrived.

In an away tie in Europe, you'd have thought we'd have controlled the game but that wasn't the case.

Was it a negative? Well, it's not, as we won. But it might become one as the season goes along.

Mane becoming the main man

It was such a positive result in the Champions League on Tuesday night.

Playing the second leg at Anfield is important, we know all about European nights and how much of a difference the crowd can make.

We got a great result but more importantly Hoffenheim are now forced to come at us and we have seen enough to suggest that will give us opportunities with our pace.

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Klopp said he'd have taken an 8-7 but that's how both teams played. He knew both teams would go for it.

The deciding factor was our quality. Hoffenheim don't have a Sadio Mane, they don't have a Mohamed Salah.

Mane has really stepped up. I felt that when he came to Liverpool, he was like an all-action man with his pace and tricks.

Now he knows he has to mix his game up. He has the ability to slow the game now and bring other players into it. As a whole package he's probably improved 20%.

Unfortunately, he's now one of those players that everybody is interested in.

We speak about Philippe Coutinho, but it won't be long before people come knocking on the door for Mane. He's the whole package. He's very, very good.