Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has hinted Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain will not be leaving this summer.

The English playmaker has been linked with a loan move to Southampton this week, having fallen down the pecking order at Anfield in recent seasons.

But Klopp has been mightily impressed with Oxlade-Chamberlain during preseason.

"Look, I know Ox for so long now it was not necessary to talk," said Klopp after Monday's friendly win over Osasuna.

"It was clear what the thing is – he needed a full pre-season. [The same] for plenty of players. For Taki it was the first pre-season with us properly; it was the first pre-season for a long time with Ox.

"It helps for all of them who were part of all the sessions, that helps and you can then get the games. I think Ox played in six pre-season games, was part of it, Taki probably as well. You can see then how much it means.

"The same for yesterday when you think about Naby, it's the same for him – that it's very important. That's what you need and now we have a proper situation and with how it looked tonight, come on, make the line-up for Norwich.

"Who do you want to leave out after these two games? That's how it should be, the boys had to put pressure on themselves with the performances they put on the pitch and that's what you wish for in an ideal world.

"Hopefully they can all stay fit and they can put for the whole season pressure on each other in a very positive way – who wants to play has to play like we did today or in yesterday in moments.

"That's the football we want to play and that's the football that made us successful and could potentially make us successful again. We'll see."