Red Bull football chief Ralf Rangnick has declared Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp the best tactician in the world.

Rangnick has hailed Klopp and makes a comparison between him and Pep Guardiola at Manchester City.

“If I think of Jürgen Klopp and try to describe him as a coach, then No 1 for me is his tactical approach," Rangnick told The Times.

“He has always been able to transform his idea of football, the way he wants his team to play, on to the pitch.

“We (Leipzig) are pretty close in our approach to football and how we see football. When you see Liverpool play, you know it is them. This is a special kind of football. It is different. It should never be boring.

“Jürgen sees the game through the eyes of what happens when the other team has the ball, and what does his team have to do to win the ball back? Either in pressing situations or counter-pressing situations.

"This is not a defensive tool, it is an offensive tool. The higher up the pitch you win the ball, the closer you are to the opposition's goal and the more likely it is that you can score.

“I remember in 2012, he did a talk at Cologne Sports University. He spoke in front of 500 students and was asked about his idea of football. He said that when he does tactical training 80 per cent of those sessions deals with what happens if the other team has the ball and how we can win the ball back. But it is wrong to reduce him to that.

“Liverpool is the best team in England and they can play at home against very defensive orientated teams, so he also needs to find solutions if they have the ball themselves.

“But his overall approach is to see the game through the glasses of what happens when the other team has the ball.

“Pep Guardiola, the Manchester City manager, more or less sees the game with what happens when his team has the ball but we must say that Pep's teams are also very well organised with regard to high counter-pressing and pressing football.

“To reduce him to a ball-possession orientated coach is wrong. The difference is that Jürgen's teams play in a much more proactive way, he always wants to give his team the idea of what happens if we lose the ball and how can we immediately win it back? That is an offensive approach."