He said: “When you look at the four older players or the leaders, with me, Ali [Alisson Becker], Virg [Virgil van Dijk] and Mo [Salah] then we take that upon ourselves to try to let them settle in as easy as possible, try to integrate them into the squad as quickly as possible.
“You know how important that is, especially when they’re coming from different countries, different cultures and things like that. It’s just about trying to get them up to speed as quickly as possible.
“We take great pride in that. We were all young before, we’ve all needed help going into squads. We still help the young lads as much as we can. When it is new players, helping them settle in – finding houses, even just getting them settled with their family, because we know how important that is – it’s so important.
“On the pitch, they kind of look after themselves – they’ve got so much quality and they’re so good. That’s the pleasing thing. Off the field, it’s about making sure they’re not sitting alone, making sure they’re getting to know each other.
“These trips are so important; we’re in the hotel, we’re all away from our families, away from our kids and it’s important that we spend a lot of time getting to know each other and things like that. And we’ve done a lot of that.
“The lads already have settled in really well. Obviously Hugo has just come in so we’ll have our first dinner with him tonight. But Jeremie, Milos, Gio, Flo have all really settled in quite quickly and it’s as if they’ve been here for months now, which is pleasing.
“It’s just up to them to then understand the standards of playing with Liverpool, and I think they’re getting to grips with that already.”
