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Xherdan Shaqiri is ready to answer Jurgen Klopp's call as the Liverpool boss ponders rotating his resources for the first time this season.

Klopp admitted his team “lost the plot” in the second half of the weekend win over Brighton and Hove Albion after suffering from the intensity and a lack of freshness.

Having started the campaign with the same starting line-up for three successive games, the Reds boss has hinted he will make changes for Saturday's trip to Leicester City.

Shaqiri, a £13million summer arrival from Stoke City, has been thus far limited to just a late eight-minute cameo from the bench during the opening weekend win over West Ham United.

And the Switzerland international is prepared to step in anywhere across the front line as he hailed Liverpool's “perfect” approach.

“The manager has brought a few players in this summer with very good quality who are going to help a lot,” said Shaqiri.

“This team needed a little competition in various positions because that makes you better and makes you stronger so I am looking forward to the season and we have started very well.

“I believe that I can play every position along the front line and the coach knows that.

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“I played every position in the friendlies: I played as a nine, I played as a 10 and I've played as a winger, although with the coach you don't really have wingers as you change positions every time with one player going inside and another player going out.

“That's really good and I like the football the way the coach plays. It is perfect football for me too."

Liverpool stand top of the embryonic Premier League table on goal difference after three straight wins.

And Shaqiri added: “It's always always important to make a good start for the fans.

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“I think they are very excited now and I hope that we can keep going like this and have a really long good start.”

Shaqiri, speaking in the official Liverpool matchday programme, believes being reunited with some former colleagues has helped him settle at Melwood.

“I have known him (Klopp) for a long time from when I was playing in Germany, and I knew it was the right thing for me,” he said. “I had a few options but this felt right.

“The fitness coach, Andreas (Kornmayer), was also with me at Bayern Munich too so I knew a little of his work and I also knew our nutritionist Mona (Nemmar) who came to Bayern later too.

“It's always nice to have a few familiar faces around when you move to a new place of work.”