Liverpool assistant manager Pep Lijnders admits he's happy he returned to the club when Jurgen Klopp replaced Brendan Rodgers.

Lijnders left for a short stint away before being convinced to return by the German.

He said on the Training Ground Guru podcast: "What we can say is there are a lot of good people in football, but there are a lot of bandits as well, a lot of bad people as well. I worked with five different clubs now and you need to learn if someone is real and what he says makes sense.

"With Jurgen, you don't know how it's going to be. I thought, 'Ok I really need to try to learn.' Of course i knew the Dortmund team and how they play. Then I saw training and then I saw the meeting and the way he spoke and I thought, 'Ah, really really good.' I thought, 'How he explains is better than how I do it' and every day Iike this, a paper, a complete A4 full with words, what he said, what he did, training. I still have these books at home.

"It was a nice period but unstable, because under Brendan I would be the coach, I would deliver all the sessions. With Jurgen, with time he asked more and more and I gave more sessions, but I was not planning the training, I was just delivering the ideas or the sessions.

"I needed more, which is why, in the end, I left, but three months later I was at NEC Nijmegen, beginning of April he called, 'Pep, I will probably be searching for a number two. I feel we can conquer the world together - what do you think?"