JURGEN KLOPP told his players to train naked for their Champions League showdown at Manchester City.
The Reds boss came into the quarter-final second leg in high spirits thanks to Mo Salah’s incredible form.
And he joked to the rest of the players that nobody would notice if they were nude as everybody was looking at the Egyptian sensation.
Klopp quipped: “It is a really good group and, with Mo, everyone really likes the hype around him, all the boys.
“When we came out for the Champions League training before Man City, I said, ‘Come on everybody, let’s go out naked because no one will realise — they are just looking at Mo.’
“Now we go to Rome. I don’t think the hype will be a little bit less. But it is all okay.
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“The boys created the atmosphere in the group. In a successful team, there is always a good atmosphere. Other teams can have very good players, but no group.”
Salah scored the goal that ended any chance of a City comeback at the Etihad after the Reds blew away their rivals.
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And the Player of the Year nominee claims his breathtaking season is down to a desire to prove Chelsea wrong.
He told Sky Sports: “I know from the first day I wanted to do something different, something special. I was here with Chelsea, didn’t get my chance, and then came back. I wanted to show everyone my football.
“I didn’t play. You can see by the numbers. I didn’t have my chance, but you can see when I did get my chance I proved some people wrong.
“Because in my mind I have to succeed here, when I left the Premier League I said I’d come back, and when I had the chance, I came.
“You can see the difference [in me] between now, a year before, two years before that. Every year, every day, every month I am proving myself.
“I always try to see my weakness, work on it, to be better as a person and a player, everything.”
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