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Jurg: It's all set for Slot to be a success

- SIMON MULLOCK

JURGEN KLOPP is sure he is leaving Liverpool in capable hands.

Klopp believes new Reds boss Arne Slot will be the perfect successor when he takes over from him in the summer.

And he reckons the Dutchman will be able to lean heavily on the expertise of chief executive Michael Edwards, technical director Julian Ward and new sporting director Richard Hughes.

Klopp, who worked alongside Edwards and Ward during his eight-and-a-half years at Anfield, has rejected suggestions that the pair are only returning to the club because he's on his way out.

Klopp said: "Did anyone make a story that they have all come back because I am leaving?

"It was really not because of me (that they left).