Liverpool has maintained a harmonious relationship with the Red Bull organization in recent years, with Salzburg coach Jesse Marsch, focusing on priorities and style.
The Reds will face RB Salzburg in their pre-season game on Tuesday in what will be their third encounter with the Austrian team over a 10-month period.
Jurgen Klopp’s men overthrew their Champions League Group E rivals twice to seal their knockout play, while 3 existing Reds have worked for Salzburg: Sadio Mane, Naby Keita and Takumi Minamino.
Liverpool’s relationship with the Red Bull organization also extends to RB Leipzig after Keita’s signing, where her global identity and eye for emerging are components of Klopp and Co’s philosophy.
It is from this explanation that Klopp turns to Red Bull players for the Salzburg boss, and Marsch temporarily acknowledges that interest in his players like Liverpool is considered “a wonderful compliment”.
“I’ve even told our selection branch that perhaps the most productive way to think about how to identify players is to think about leagues and clubs around the world that have a football logo similar to ours,” Marsch told Goal.
“Maybe it’s a smart position to start thinking about how we can locate smart young players to integrate them into what we do. This is necessarily the strategy that Jurgen Klopp has followed and has succeeded with that.
“I have already been asked which players from Leipzig and Salzburg can sign for Liverpool immediately. From my point of view, I can choose five players from all aspects who have perfect compatibility with Liverpool. It would just be a matter of adapting to the level.
“It’s similar to what Taki Minamino is going through right now, he is provided with all the equipment to play on this team and it’s just about adapting to where things are done.
“This team sees as a wonderful compliment that a club like Liverpool and a coach like Jurgen Klopp give us so much importance.”
And before the assembly with Liverpool, Marsch continued to express his appreciation and respect for Klopp’s paintings and the values he seeks to include in Salzburg.
But while it’s just a friendly fit that either group prepares for 2020/21, Marsch expects a bigger result than the two who hit his team on the European stage.
“When I first accepted this position, I was asked which coaches and clubs were lately doing a wonderful task and my reaction was Jurgen Klopp and Liverpool,” the Salzburg coach continued.
“It has a lot to do with him running his organization and training his team to play.
“It’s very in line with the things we’re looking to do here. It’s a little different in some main points about who I am, who our club is and how we play, but at the same time, I think it’s a recognition.
“I’ve had an appreciation. The good thing about competing in combination is that I think Liverpool as a club and Jurgen Klopp as coaches are more respectful of what we do. So in the end, the chance to play as opposed to others.” again, when he got here, it was exciting for us.
“We’ll see everything we’ve learned in our matches in front of them and if we can do it a little better, even if it’s a friendly.
“What I said in the half-time speech that came out in German is that it’s not a friendly, but what I can say now is that it’s a friendly,” Marsch added jokingly, referring to his half. anfield in October last year.
The Reds will face Salzburg at the Red Bull Arena on Tuesday, August 25 for a start at 3 p.m. (BST), where 1250 enthusiasts are expected to attend.