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Liverpool boss Klopp: I signed a new contract to be here for the rebuild

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp says he's determined to rebuild his faltering team.

Last April, Klopp penned a two-year extension to his previous Reds deal which would see him and his backroom staff stay on at Anfield until at least the summer of 2026. Klopp recently admitted things need to change at the Reds and has spoken of the need to revamp the squad.

"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's necessary," Klopp explained on the BT Sport podcast Mike Calvin's Football People.

“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 all the problems you have in a transition time period, we have an awful lot of injuries, and that makes life really complicated. I have no problem with that because I see obviously… I know the majority of the outside world is just interested in the short term but we have to be long-term focused as well, and that's what we are."

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