Jurgen Klopp has admitted Liverpool's transfer business is likely to take longer to conduct than he would like this summer.
The Anfield manager brought in all of his new faces before his squad reported for the start of pre-season training on July 20 last year.
Back then, Sadio Mane, Joel Matip, Georginio Wijnaldum, Ragnar Klavan, Loris Karius and Alex Manninger were all recruited despite the European Championships also taking place in France.
Although there is no such obstacle in that respect this time, the German concedes he is unlikely to have each new addition in place before his players report to begin building up to the 2017/18 campaign.
Klopp, speaking after Liverpool's 3-0 post-season friendly win against Sydney FC in Australia, said: "I wish tomorrow (to have signings completed) but unfortunately that's not really likely.
"The best scenario is that you have them for the start of pre-season but I'm not sure if it will happen this time. It's different with all different players so we will see.
"That's not a big problem because we all know if they are fit and healthy we have a really strong squad and that means we could start with this squad.
"But that doesn't mean that I would prefer this, I would love to have them in as soon as possible."
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