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Danny Ward has vowed to embrace the three-way fight to be Liverpool's No 1.

The Wales international keeper returned to the club this summer after helping Huddersfield Town clinch promotion to the Premier League during a successful season-long loan.

Town boss David Wagner was keen to keep Ward for another year, but Jurgen Klopp wanted him back to compete with Simon Mignolet and Loris Karius for a starting role.

The manager recently said they will all get opportunities in pre-season to stake a claim and Ward, who arrived in Hong Kong with the squad on Monday after missing the opening two friendlies with a minor back problem, is ready for the challenge ahead.

“It shows he’s got faith in what I can bring to the squad,” Ward said.

“The more keepers we have got with quality, the better. The manager has talked about us having competition between us which can only be healthy for the squad in general.

“That’s our aim every day – to push each other as far as we can because we want Liverpool to have the best goalkeeper that we can potentially give them.

“The manager knows the three boys are more than capable. It’s a fight for the No 1, but we’ll be helping each other along the way.”

The 24-year-old believes he benefited massively from his season at Huddersfield which ended in play-off final glory at Wembley.

“It was a crazy 12 months really, an unbelievable experience,” Ward told Liverpoolfc.com

“I went there to go and play some games and obviously we had the fairytale ending.

“Hopefully that’ll hold me in good stead for what’s to come in the future.”