Jurgen Klopp says the current Liverpool squad is the best he has managed during his six years at Anfield.
Since winning the Premier League in 2020, the Reds have added Thiago Alcantara, Diogo Jota, Ibrahima Konate, Kostas Tsimikas and Luis Diaz to the first-team scene while offloading Xherdan Shaqiri, Gini Wijnaldum and Dejan Lovren.
And with the side still on course for a first-ever quadruple ahead of Wednesday's Champions League quarter-final second leg with Benfica, Klopp admits the current crop is the finest he has ever had at his disposal since moving to Anfield in October 2015.
Asked if this was the best Liverpool squad of his reign, Klopp said: "Yes. Full stop. We have always had great teams since I've been here, I loved them all, but now we have a bigger squad, they are all fit for the first time since I have been here and more experienced. We know much more about each other. Yes, this is the strongest team."
Klopp also revealed the happiness that Luis Diaz has heading into Liverpool training every day and admitted he didn't expect the Colombia international to adjust to life on Merseyside as quickly as he has.
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Diaz signed from Porto at the end of January for a fee that could rise up to £50m and has given Liverpool's attack another dimension as they continue the surge for all four trophies.
"I didn’t know how much he enjoys training," said Klopp. "I had no idea. I’m not sure I ever saw anybody like that. I said before, he cannot stop smiling in training. It’s crazy. The rest, how quick he will adapt, I didn’t know that either.
"They are all happy. All our players we signed in the last few years were happy when they arrived. It’s not the worst place in the world, to be honest! You can see that they are flying. Luis is now here for more than two months, and it’s rare to see how much he enjoys training. It’s really cool.
"It’s 3-1 at half time and it is as tricky as 2-0. It's a good basis, but as we felt against Inter, if they get one goal, the game changes. We felt it in the first game. Benfica scored and all of a sudden, bam, it felt different.
"We have to make sure that this really feels like a place that they don’t want to go. We have to be really on our toes, really angry in a good way. They want to kick us out of the competition, so we have to be ready for that."
