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Jurgen Klopp broke Bayern Munich's dominance of the Bundesliga - but insists wrestling Manchester City's Premier League crown from their grasp is a much tougher proposition.

The Reds boss won back-to-back titles with Borussia Dortmund as he overcame the fact that Bayern had significantly greater resources.

Klopp is desperate to replicate that success at Anfield and after successive top-four finishes a resurgent Liverpool now look capable of mounting a real challenge to City's supremacy.

“Yeah, the Premier League (is harder) for sure,” Klopp said.

“You can give a few more points away. You have to be ready for all these games.

“Seven years ago was a completely different time, football has changed. The Premier League is a different challenge for us but that's not important

“I don't want to compare it but if you could beat Bayern it was good because usually they had won all their other games.

"That will not happen here. Even City couldn't do that last year. They got 100 points but that was a rare thing to do.

“I'm not interested too much in the difficulties of our challenge, I'm really working on the solutions and to ensure we are ready for all these games.”

Liverpool's perfect start to the season has helped them keep pace with Pep Guardiola's side ahead of Saturday's visit of Brighton to Anfield.

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But Klopp says it would be futile for his players to be preoccupied with City's form.

“My experience taught me that you only play twice against Bayern in a season,” he said.

“Okay, we often played against them three times because of the cup final but usually it's only two.

“We were never chasing Bayern. When we weren't playing against them, it just wasn't interesting for us.

“Here we have more teams like this. If City isn't the No 1 then there will be others going for it. I really think Tottenham will have a brilliant season. They are together still and have a fantastic manager.

“A few other teams have a big chance too. Chelsea look really positive, Arsenal not a good start but that will change.

“Don't look at the others, it doesn't help you. You only have a problem with them twice over the course of the year. Just try to beat them in those two games and then beat the others as often as possible.”

Klopp's side have been showered with praise following wins over West Ham and Crystal Palace.

The feelgood factor from the club's summer transfer activity has been enhanced by the flying start the Reds have made, but the manager is determined to that ensure feet remain firmly on the floor.

“I don’t know exactly how much the players read but we have this kind of agreement between us that it’s not important what the outside world is saying about us,” Klopp said.

“It’s only important what we say, think and do. I think that works pretty well. Life is always a challenge. I see no signs from anybody where body language has changed.

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“The fellas from last year have a few nice experiences on their back but I only see that they want to try again, to try to improve and try to play an outstanding Premier League season and a fantastic Champions League campaign as well as the cups. That’s the plan.

“We only played two football games. We won both of them. A lot of people would have expected this even though they were difficult.

“Now Brighton is coming and we have a new job to do. In the Premier League there is no easy game and Brighton is the opposite of an easy game. It will be really hard.”

Klopp insists retaining that hunger isn't an issue because there's so much room for improvement. He was less than impressed with some of their attacking play at Selhurst Park on Monday night.

“To know how to use your tools is one of the biggest arts in football – that you can really do it at the right moment,” he added.

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“The difference between the West Ham and the Crystal Palace game was not only the opponent but our timing in our offensive situations was not good. We did not often enough have the passing option we needed.

“It’s not easy to bring the right things every week on the pitch. For me as a manager, the boys need to have the same desire to play a good season like I have.

“If somebody cannot deliver because of different reasons for a week, two weeks, three weeks or four, then we should have enough options as a squad to solve that.

“They know why they are here and what we want to achieve - that's what we're working towards. We want to play the best season we can play. Wherever that ends, we will see.”

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Klopp must decide whether to name an unchanged side for the third successive game or hand a first start of the season to captain Jordan Henderson.

The manager knows the greater depth he now possesses will be vital over the coming months.

"Hopefully we have a lot of difficult decisions to make with the squad and the line up and stuff like that because of the number of players that we have," he said.

"That would help massively. We all know what happened in the past few years.

"In the moment we talk about one player or another and why he's not here or there. In five weeks they will all have played three or four games and everything is good, everyone could show up.

"I know that, the boys know that, it still doesn't feel perfect for one or another, but they have been brilliant in training, trying everything to show up and that's how it should be."