Loris Karius has admitted that gaining experience with Manchester City has prepared him to become Liverpool's new number one.

The 23-year-old goalkeeper spent two years with City after joining from Stuttgart as a 26-year-old back in 2009.

Seven years on and Karius has returned to England having joined Liverpool from Mainz for £4.7million in May, and insists he is now ready to take the first team mantle at Anfield for Jurgen Klopp.

"I trained with Joe Hart and Shay Given every day and travelled with the first team a few times," he said.

"Training was high level so it was good experience. I got to know the language and the country well, so it was good for my development. I never regretted it.

"But I left City because I wanted to play and took the step to Mainz because I thought I needed a smaller team to get my career going.

"I did everything right with that, and had nearly three full seasons football in the Bundesliga. Although I am still young, have played around 100 Bundesliga games.

"Obviously the manager has seen a good goalkeeper in me I guess, or he wouldn't have brought me here.

"So I need to settle in, get to know the players, get the communication going with the defence. And there are a lot of pre-season games to get all that going."