Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has no plans to poach any of his former players from Borussia Dortmund.

The German has reiterated his desire to work with the squad he has inherited from predecessor Brendan Rodgers – most of whom he has not met as they are on international duty.

Unsurprisingly he has been linked with many of the stars who were part of his success at Dortmund but played down the chances of making moves for the likes of Mats Hummels, Neven Subotic, Ilkay Gundogan and Marco Reus.

Asked about raiding his previous club he told reporters: “That’s not my intention at all.”

The 48-year-old spent part of the weekend at the club’s academy watching the Under-18 team’s victory over Stoke City and arrived at the first-team’s Melwood training ground yesterday morning to take his first session with the players available to him.

That is what he will concentrate on in the near future and has not explored what money will be available to him for the January transfer window after Rodgers spent almost £80 million in the summer transfer window and close to £300 million during just over three years in charge.

“I’m not interested in that,” Klopp said.

“It’s already October and I don’t even know how many matches there are until winter. But there are a few and so we’ll be looking at our own players first.”