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Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has been hailed as “the best coach in the whole world” – with claims his players would “die for him”.

Kevin-Prince Boateng, the former Tottenham Hotspur, Portsmouth and AC Milan forward, spent six months working with Klopp when on loan from Spurs in 2009.

And in a wide-ranging interview with The Guardian , the 29-year-old – now at La Liga side Las Palmas – has revealed the impact his brief period with Klopp had on his career.

“He’s the best coach in the whole world,” said Boateng.

“He knows when to push you and when to comfort you. He knows when you need a drink, when you need water.

“He has everything. Ask the players and they’ll say: ‘He’s the best, I’d die for him.’

“He knows exactly what every player needs and gives them time.

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“There were players at Dortmund who played five minutes in six months but they were happy: happy to come to training, happy to work, because he made you feel important.

“Not necessarily as a player – maybe he doesn’t need you – but as a person. That’s why he’s successful everywhere. And Liverpool’s perfect; just watching his presentation you see it. ‘The normal one’: people there love that.

“I’m happy to have met Klopp, to have worked with him, even if it was only six months.”