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Jurgen Klopp: There are no available strikers better than Liverpool's

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says it was not possible to improve his attacking unit in the summer transfer window as there were no forwards available who were better than his current options.

Liverpool have scored 50 Premier League goals in 2016 -- more than any other team -- and the addition of Sadio Mane from Southampton for £30 million in June has strengthened the team in the final third even further.

Klopp's side put four past Arsenal and champions Leicester City so far this season and the Reds boss attributes the success in front of goal down to the collective work rate from the whole team.

"We have the only attacking options that I want," Klopp said. "When I thought about what I had to do in the transfer window, I always heard, 'We have to sign this striker or this kind of striker.'

"But it's really difficult out there to find better strikers who are available. It's not possible to find available strikers who are better than ours. But it's not about having the best, it's about doing the best.

"When we have won the last game everybody agrees with me and if we haven't won the last game everybody thinks: 'What is he talking about?' That's part of the deal and I have no problem with it. But I don't change my mind every week.

"The last game was good and the game before was good too, Tottenham are a difficult team to play against. Stoke saw that last weekend. Everybody will see it in the season. We did really well there."

Mane has been Liverpool's star performer in the opening weeks of this Premier League season, giving opposing defenders a torrid time on the right wing and creating opportunities for his teammates.

Klopp has been impressed with the early contributions from the Senegal international and says his attributes were exactly what was needed over the summer.

"Sadio gives width and space," Klopp added. "I would say we gave a masterclass in games without the space created by Sadio.

"We don't have slow players but he is a specific kind, a good footballer and that makes it an enjoyable package. But a few of the best games we played until now were without him. We are happy to have him here but it is not that we now create a specific plan to bring him in.

"All the players are involved in defending until they are not involved and it is all about protection and being an option. When you don't protect you need to be an option to get a pass or create some space. That is how we want to use him.

"From the first moment it was pretty much clear that he would be good for us. I was really happy when we signed him and I heard the deal was done. The best thing was he could make the preseason with us.

"He had brilliant moments in one of the other easier games, had weaker moments in another, he went through the normal cycle you go through for a preseason. At the end he made all the sessions and that was the best base for fitting in as quick as possible."