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Klopp backs Reds to stay 'humble and greedy'

JURGEN KLOPP has promised there will be no let-up from Liverpool — this season and beyond — despite having already secured their first league title in 30 years.

The Reds head to Manchester City tonight, when they can expect a guard of honour from Pep Guardiola’s men.

And though the Premier League trophy is on its way to Anfield, Klopp promised his players do not plan to end their utterly dominating season early.

“As long as we stay humble and greedy we have a good chance to be a really uncomfortable opponent, and when you are an uncomfortable opponent you have a chance to win,” Klopp said.

“Life is constantly a challenge. Our challenge now is to be a champion and to play seven games against teams who are fighting for everything.

“We can show we don’t win because we have to, but because we want to.”

He also promised that this attitude would continue next season.

“We will not defend the title next season, we will attack the next one,” he said. “I have learned that when you think you have reached the pinnacle, you are already on the way down.

“We don’t feel that. I don’t feel satisfied. This is just another step, a big one, an unbelievably big one, but it’s not the only thing I want to talk to the boys about when I meet them in 20 years’ time.”

Klopp said he expected another “intense” battle at City’s place, saying that the gap in the table counts for nothing on the pitch.

And of the guard of honour, he said: “It’s a nice gesture, 100 per cent, but I wouldn’t need it to be honest. Because we go there to play a football game and we want to win… not to celebrate something that happened a week before.”

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