Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp admits he wants face-to-face talks with any transfer target.

Klopp concedes they face a crucial summer market ahead.

He said, "You can't speak early, you have to wait to get permission. In Germany I could talk pretty early to players - the good old times. Here I can't. It would be really cool to get a picture and we can obviously watch the players as often as we want but then all the other restrictions are coming in. Someone tells me I can go and then I go. That's the rules. Nothing else.

"It always was [key to talk], because when I talk I've seen him playing already so my opinion about him is already clear. That's why these talks are important, you just need to know where he stands, what he wants to achieve, what he wants to do, how is he.

"In football for me it is quite simple, you can make an 80% picture when you just watch him play, how they behave in certain moments, dealing with set-backs.

"That is not a conversation about the person, the boy behind the player, the family. That's more difficult here. Maybe now all the German guys go, 'it was not allowed in Germany as well', but no-one asked. I never had a situation when someone said: 'You cannot talk to him.'"