Jurgen Klopp has admitted he is ‘100% responsible’ for Liverpool’s wretched run of form. that has seen their Premier League title aspirations go up in smoke. The Reds are winless in the league since the turn of the year and, following their 2-0 defeat to Hull City on Saturday, now lie four places and 13 points off league leaders Chelsea with almost two-thirds of the season played.
Liverpool’s only victory in 2017 came in their FA Cup third round replay victory at Plymouth Argyle and, in quotes published by the ?Independent, Klopp stated that he was the only person to blame for his side’s alarming downturn in fortunes after an impressive first half of the campaign.
He said: “I feel 100 per cent responsible for defeats, much more than I feel for wins. It has been like this my whole life. That doesn’t mean it’s for me not suffering or to be sorry for yourself, to have self-pity, I’m not like this.
“When I get up tomorrow I will only be solution-orientated. There are solutions, 100%. Now we have to change it, that’s a football thing. Even though at this moment it feels really bad it’s not the biggest problem in the world.
“Many teams have already made mistakes and changed things, for this you have to do the right things and I’m quite confident we can do the right things.”
League defeats to Swansea City and Hull, plus cup exits at home to Wolves and Southampton, have all but ended Liverpool’s chances of silverware for another season, and they now face a fight to cling onto hopes of qualifying for next season’s Champions League.
Manchester City’s 2-1 victory over Swansea saw Pep Guardiola’s men leapfrog Liverpool into the fourth and final qualification spot in England’s top flight, and the Reds will now need to win the majority of their final 14 matches to secure a place at UEFA’s flagship club tournament in 2017/18.
Many pundits and supporters have put Liverpool’s awful run of results down to a lack of new faces in the January transfer window, but Klopp claimed that the right personnel was not available to purchase in the winter window as he tried to strengthen his first-team squad at Anfield.
He added: “I cannot change my answer after today, I cannot say: ‘Yes, it would have been fantastic if the club could have given me [new players].
We had opportunities for doing something but we didn’t find the right players. It’s not because we were blind, it’s because the players were not available.
“We tried different things, it was not a money issue, there were different reasons. We have to show a reaction, but I will not change my answers about things like this after a game which I am really not happy about.”
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