Jurgen Kloop has further taken a deep dive into the struggling form of Liverpool in the current season.
While noting that the need to rebuild the team was the motivation behind his extension of contract last year, the German tactician said that “he is not a miracle worker” to change things overnight.
Liverpool’s form in the current season has seen them sitting 9th on the log with 29 points-19 points adrift the league leaders.
“I’m not saying it’s the biggest challenge, but it’s a challenge, and it was one of the main reasons why I signed a new contract, because I knew it was necessary [to rebuild],” Klopp said during an appearance on BT Sport’s Football People podcast.
“It will not go overnight, and imagine the situation now with another coach in the chair. I would be somewhere on holiday and everybody would shout my name, ‘with him it would not have happened!’
“I’m obviously not a miracle worker. That’s why it’s good how it is, because of all the problems you have in a transitional period – we have an awful lot of injuries and that makes life really complicated.
Klopp expressed the need for a long term solution to the problem,saying transition needs time.
“I have no problem with that because obviously I know the majority of the outside world are just interested in the short term, but we have to be long-term focused as well.
“Chelsea with the new ownership obviously… nobody knows exactly how they do it, how they can spend this much money.
“Nobody likes me talking about other teams, but transition needs time if you don’t have endless money, otherwise you can change it overnight pretty much, by bringing in 10 players.”
While Klopp will have spent 11 years at Anfield if he sees out his current contract, he is not hopeful of spending time more than other Coaches who had been in charge of the club in the past.
“I know I dream of football, so that’s not cool… the job is incredibly demanding, it is, but it’s great as well,” Klopp added.
“When Roy Hodgson came back again [to Watford last season], I saw him and asked him, ‘do you have a wet flat? You go again?’ He says, ‘no, I love it’.
“I cannot see myself beyond 70 and still standing in the dugout in every weather, and especially each weather for training, two hours standing there in the wind. I can’t see that.
“I hope other things are that interesting to me that I am really fine with not being involved anymore”