Pep Lijnders believes the signing of Thiago Alcantara will give Liverpool an air of the unpredictable in midfield.
Liverpool secured the Spain international on a £25million deal from Bayern Munich last Friday with the Reds paying an initial sum of £20m for the two-time Champions League winner.
Jurgen Klopp said last week that he feels Thiago will add a new dimension to the Premier League champions and his assistant, Lijnders, feels the 29-year-old can bring some central creativity to a team who rely heavily on the supply from wide.
Andy Robertson and Trent Alexander-Arnold last term chipped in with a combined 25 assists, but with teams setting up to limit the influence of the raiding full-backs, Lijnders thinks Thiago is the ideal solution for Liverpool.
“This teams deserves a player like him," Lijnders said of the former Bayern and Barcelona midfielder.
"A good team deserves good players and deserves players who add something and he will add something to our team.
"With signings you have direct improvements – you put them into the game and things happen - but indirect development is the most important of signings.
"Because he is so calm and he plays so many creative passes all the other players start playing like that. This is the power of example, the power of models.
"He will not only improve our game but improve all the other players. There will be different timings, different passes, different dictation of play.
"We have to stay unpredictable and Thiago gives us unpredictability from the spine of the pitch.
"We want hopefully 11 players who can play the last pass and for sure he is one of the players who can play this last pass."
Liverpool head to Lincoln on Thursday night for their third-round Carabao Cup tie with Thiago expected to sit out the visit to Sincil Bank.
However, assistant boss Lijnders refused to be drawn on whether the 29-year-old will be given minutes in a competition that rests at the bottom of the club's priorities this season.
Lijnders added: "The German competition is like this as well.
"A lot of times you draw a third division club in Germany you play away, that's how they try to help, so he knows these kind of teams.
"Thiago also needs time to understand our game but we also need to understand and use the skills of Thiago.
“We always search to do the right thing for each game. We have so many different characteristics in our midfield we can change when necessary and put the right midfield in in place to approach the game.
"But it is not just Thiago of course, but Curtis Jones who comes in and takes an important spot in midfield, gives us risk between the lines, gives us young blood.
"He is a proper squad player at this moment in time."
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