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Liverpool boss Klopp: Salah now guaranteed starter?

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp is delighted with the preseason form of Mohamed Salah.

Salah struck in victory over Leicester City in Hong Kong.

Asked if the Egyptian is a guaranteed starter, Klopp laughed: "Yes, I've made all of my decisions four weeks before we start! All of the others are 'definite starters' apart from the players I cannot bring into the 11.

"I hope and really pray that I have more than 11 players when we start [the season] and then I will make the choice. At the moment, we have to make the boys fit. They have to show up, that's how it is, but actually they don't have to convince me because I am already convinced. They are only here because I am convinced.

"It's about bringing themselves into the best shape they can, then we help them with a few little [pieces of] advice or a few big [pieces of] advice in different moments and tell them where it should lead. He is a good player, that is obvious."

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