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Liverpool boss Klopp: I want to chat with Bielsa - but my Spanish is random

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp is looking forward to testing himself against Leeds United counterpart Marcelo Bielsa.

Klopp wishes to compare notes with Bielsa providing his limited Spanish skills allow him to do so.

Speaking to Football Daily, Klopp made light of the situation and explained that his Spanish went as far as ordering a beer on holiday, before waxing lyrical about Bielsa's style and ideas.

"My Spanish is pretty random, I'd love to have a conversation with him which would be nice, but I don't speak Spanish apart from ordering a beer and I don't know how his English is meanwhile," said the Liverpool boss.

"So that's a bit of a shame, but apart from that I just couldn't have more respect for what he is doing to be honest.

"What a guy. The team, the style, how they play will suit them even more for the Premier League than for the Championship one hundred percent.

"They can be and will be very very uncomfortable to play against."

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