Jurgen Klopp wants to see Liverpool play their own famed brand of football in their upcoming friendly matches and in the Community Shield.
The Reds will face Bundesliga side Stuttgart on Saturday, August 22, before facing Austrian champions RB Salzburg three days later.
The Premier League champions then meet FA Cup winners Arsenal at Wembley in the Community Shield on August 29.
And Klopp has explained why Liverpool won't be the "finished article" against the Gunners but that the manager hopes to see his players "deal with problems, create, defend together" and show off the principles they have all worked on for so long during the game.
He said: "From a timing point of view, the Community Shield is in the middle of the pre-season, if you want. For us it's not the same.
"It will be a good game, I'm pretty sure. Arsenal is a good team, so it will be a good game, but both teams will not be the finished articles.
"How can we be after two weeks training again and stuff like this? But that's not important because both teams probably have the same situation, so it will be tough.
"The 22nd is the first friendly, 25th second friendly, 29th [is] then the Community Shield, so you see it's a pretty tight one immediately.
"But what I want to see from the boys, that we play our football again. That's it pretty much. And that we deal with the problems in the game in our way, that we create, that we prepare, that we are ready to defend together, that we have all the principles we worked on so long.
"You should see that we didn't meet a week ago for the first time in our lives. So we worked together for a while, didn't change a lot squad-wise. We want to see just our football."
Klopp will start preparing his side for the challenge of Stuttgart this weekend, a club he supported as a boy, before they face up to last season's Champions League opponents Salzburg next week.
"I'm born in Stuttgart actually and it was my childhood favourite club," he told the club's official website.
"I've played them a couple of times obviously in the Bundesliga and obviously I'm an adult now, so it's not exactly the same affection anymore. But my whole family back in the Black Forest supports obviously Stuttgart.
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"I'm happy that they could get promoted again, it's very, very important for them. I worked together for a long time with their sporting director, Sven Mislintat, so yes there are connections and that's good.
"Salzburg, not long ago that we played and we took Taki [Minamino] from there, Sadio [Mane] played there, Naby [Keita] played there.
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"That's all good but in the end it's only about that we can play the games. These are not the most important games in the world but in this moment they are very, very important because we just want to see that the boys again use the things we think they should use in a game. First chance on the 22nd."
