Football news - Tammy Abraham and Mason Mount £60 million players, says Jurgen Klopp
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Updated 20/09/2019 at 13:40 GMT
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp believes Chelsea youngsters Tammy Abraham and Mason Mount are £60m players, ahead of Liverpool's visit to Stamford Bridge this Sunday.
Mason Mount and Tammy Abraham of Chelsea celebrate after scoring their team's second goal during the Premier League match between Norwich City and Chelsea
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Abraham (7) and Mount (3) have scored nine of Chelsea's 11 Premier League goals between them so far this season, with Mount earning a call up to the England squad during the most recent international break and Abraham grabbing his first Chelsea hat-trick against Wolves last weekend.
Confronted by a transfer ban, new Chelsea boss Frank Lampard has given youth a chance so far this season and despite mixed results, the two youngsters have excelled.
And Klopp says this Chelsea side remind him of his Bundesliga-winning Borussia Dortmund team.
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Chelsea manager / head coach Frank Lampard looks on during the UEFA Champions League group H match between Chelsea FC and Valencia
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"It's a really exciting team," he said. "It reminds me a bit of my team at Dortmund years back, when they were really young, even younger than this team now at Chelsea
"Chelsea brought in Christian Pulisic in the summer for 50 or 60 million and all the players around him have the same value. Tammy Abraham is now a 60 million player, Mason Mount for sure 60 million if not more, Callum Hudson-Odoi was worth that already.
"Frank Lampard has an exciting football team - young, but really good.
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