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Kylian Mbappe has previously made no secret of his admiration for Jurgen Klopp as Liverpool launch their latest attempt to sign the Paris Saint-Germain superstar.
Mbappe, 24, will be free to leave the French giants as a free agent next summer per the terms of the contract he signed last year. However, PSG are determined not to lose the Frenchman for nothing and are actively trying to sell him before September's transfer deadline.
Although Real Madrid are favourites to win the race for Mbappe, Mirror Football exclusively revealed on Saturday that Liverpool are in negotiations over a loan deal with PSG. The year-long agreement would see the French champions bank a fee for Mbappe's services whilst also ensuring he would be free to wrap up a dream switch to the Bernabeu ahead of the 2024/25 campaign.
Liverpool's latest attempt to sign Mbappe comes just over three years after the striker talked up Klopp and his team following their historic Premier League triumph.
Speaking back in 2020, Mbappe said: "This season, Liverpool have been a machine in the Premier League. They have made winning look easy but the truth is that it is never easy.
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"Performances, like they have been having, don't just happen. To be as ruthless as they have been would come from lots of hard work in training and from having a very good manager."
With PSG determined to raise at least some funds from offloading Mbappe this summer rather than losing him for free next year, Liverpool's fresh attempts to lure the sought-after striker to Anfield could come to fruition.
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Kylian Mbappe previously lauded Jurgen Klopp as a "very good manager" (PSG YouTube)It was previously revealed by French outlet L’Equipe that Mbappe held a two-hour meeting with Reds owner John W Henry on his private jet back in 2017 before he joined PSG from their Ligue 1 rivals, Monaco.
And Klopp, a long-term admirer of Mbappe, has been just as complimentary of the striker in the past as Mbappe has been towards him. Klopp told RMC Sport before a Champions League tie back in 2018: "I love him [Mbappe], to be honest. What a player he is and a nice lad as well, so he's a really good kid. What a player, what a player.
"Everyone knows him since he was 16, 17 when he impressed in Monaco's youth teams, and I saw videos of him when he was 17 and he destroyed defensive lines as he is doing now.
"He's at an unbelievable level of consistency at that age. He's an outstanding player, that's clear, but he can deliver, deliver and deliver, which shows he's really good educated boy and he knows what he is doing."
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