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Jurgen Klopp has explained why Liverpool have appointed a specialist throw-in coach – after admitting he'd never heard of such a role!

It emerged this week that Danish coach Thomas Gronnemark is being employed on a part-time basis to work with the Reds' first team and Academy to bolster their threat at dead ball situations.

Gronnemark has spent the last 15 years honing the set-piece art, and has previously worked with several English clubs.

And Klopp said: “I think it’s not only important to me, it’s to everyone. To be honest I’d never heard about a throw-in coach.

“As a football manager, you hear a lot about different things. I played the game, I’ve been managing 18 years, but that doesn’t mean I am a goalkeeper specialist. And I am obviously not a throw-in specialist.

“When I heard about Thomas then it was clear to me I wanted to meet him, and when I met him it was 100% clear I wanted to employ him.

“Now he’s here, we work on that from time to time, and we use his information during the weeks when he’s not here. We use it for the Academy as well. It’s good.”

Gronnemark's appointment is the latest of a raft of changes Klopp has made to his backroom staff as he aims to extract every advantage in the hope of bringing silverware to Anfield.

“You cannot have enough specialists around you,” said the Reds boss. “I must be the guy who makes the decision on when do we use them, but you cannot have enough.

“We have fitness, medical department, nutritionist and now we have somebody for throw-ins. He’s a good guy, he has made a difference already.

“It’s cool. The boys like it, somebody who knows what he’s talking about – that always helps when you want to improve something.”

Gronnemark enjoyed his greatest success while working with Midtjylland in his homeland, with their long throws a feature of their extended run in the Europa League in 2016.