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Jurgen Klopp says the addition of any further new players to his Liverpool squad this summer will depend on how players react on his decisions before the end of the transfer window.

The Reds boss is keeping an open mind on more new arrivals but admitted he expects further departures from his squad before the August 31 cut-off point.

Liverpool have already added seven players to their squad in this window with Marko Grujic, Joel Matip, Loris Karius, Sadio Mane, Gini Wijnaldum, Ragnar Klavan and Alex Manninger all arriving at Anfield.

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A left-back seems to be the missing part of the jigsaw with the lengthy pursuit of Leicester’s Ben Chilwell now abandoned but Klopp is unsure whether he will make a further move in the market.

“If I had to guess I would say rather no, but I don’t know actually because it’s a long time until the 31st of August and I have no idea,” he told ESPN.

“We will see how the players react on my decisions again because we will have more players than 11 for sure, and then you have to accept a few decisions and you have to take it as an opportunity.

“To develop a team never ends so, you have only result, result, result, but then you will have to again decide. That’s how it is. So we will see. I don’t think we’ll have a lot. But of course everyone knows about it maybe on the outgoing side will happen a little bit.”

That seems likely to be a reference to the likely departure of Christian Benteke with Liverpool having already rejected a £25m offer from Crystal Palace and holding out for a fee closer to £30m.

The likes of Luis Alberto, Lazar Markovic and Mario Balotelli could also move on.

Klopp was also asked about working with Liverpool’s transfer committee and the process of improving the squad at Anfield.

“First of all, improvement all can come in all kinds of life and in all parts of life and, it’s based on experience so, I don’t think it makes sense that you give one person the whole power, that’s why we have democracy and no other kind of political leadership.

“Hopefully it stays like this and because we learned that it makes sense that you put all your skills together and in the end you try to find the best decision. ... I don’t know how it works in other clubs but in this squad it’s not one player.

“It’s all about the situation in the club and the squad and it’s about money, we all have a budget - okay maybe not all have a budget - how it is and that’s how I like it and that’s how I’m used to working.

“So it’s a lot of work to find a solution at the end. And yeah when I put my thumb up and I only can do this when the financial things are agreed and the player joins us or leaves us that’s how it is.”

As he has often stated Klopp reiterated that despite the collective approach, finals decisions always come down to him.

“Our day has only 24 hours. It’s quite busy so be yourself and do what you think is right. Take advice from your team around of course, l like this. I’m how you say far away from being (a) genius so I need advice from other people but the decision at the end, it’s always alone. You have to decide alone.”

The Reds boss believes success this season will only come through a team effort throughout the whole staff at Anfield.

“What I can promise if we win something at the end of the season, everybody who’s (here) after August 31 in this squad will have a big influence on it. If we win something and we will have a big picture and everybody will be on it.

“And if you are then smart enough to think ‘yes I was a big (part), I played a big role in it’ - whatever a big role is, it’s a decisive goal in the last minute with three matches, or it’s a, ‘I made 20 matches, 10 of them not so good but 10 were brilliant’ - whatever. If you win something, then it’s because of the group you have been (in).”

Klopp and his team have travelled back to Stanford after the 1-0 pre season loss to Chelsea in the early hours of Thursday in Pasadena.