Liverpool first team coach Pepijn Lijnders admits that working under Jurgen Klopp has been a dream come true for him.
The Dutchman joined the club as youth team coach around 18 months ago, but Brendan Rodgers promoted Lijnders to the first team in the summer and he has become a key member of Klopp's backroom staff.
Lijnders has worked at PSV Eindhoven and Portuguese giants FC Porto, but the 32-year-old admits that working under the German has been a completely different experience.
He indicated that the former Borussia Dortmund boss was one of the coaches he looked up to and getting the chance to become part of the German’s backroom staff has been an eye opening experience for him.
Lijnders admits that he is learning every day under Klopp and each training session is like a ‘masterclass’ for a young coach like him.
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“For me as a young coach learning from the best it's the same as [the young players]. It's like a masterclass every day it's very simple”, Pepijn Lijnders told the club’s official website.
"You go to a congress and you see that one speaker and you like him and you think 'wow'.
"If you can work with that speaker every day that would be [fantastic] and that's the situation I'm in at the moment."
Klopp and his coaching staff will be hoping that Liverpool can shake off their home defeat to Crystal Palace and recalibrate their focus for their tough away trip to league leaders Manchester City after the international break.
