Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp is looking forward to today's preseason friendly against Stuttgart.

The Reds kickoff their preseason progamme today.

Klopp said, "We planned obviously two games – one against Stuttgart, one against Salzburg. They will both be pretty tough. Stuttgart got promoted last season, a few weeks ago, let me say it like this.

"It's a first division club, a historical Bundesliga club, if you want, but had to go the hard way to the second Bundesliga. But now they are back, pretty young team, pretty lively, don't know too much about them, to be 100 per cent honest, but I don't want to know too much about them, I just want us to react on what they are asking for – that's, for me, pre-season as well.

"So there will not be a long meeting and I will tell everything what I know about the opponent because I just don't know a lot about the opponent, apart from most of the players. I don't even know the manager exactly because he came up when I had left Germany already long ago, so that will be really exciting. But they always have good football teams and Nat [Phillips] played there last year, so that will be a big hello for him, which is nice."