Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has dismissed talk of needing to buy a centre-half in January.

Klopp insists the defensive injury list won't force his hand in the window next month, although the Liverpool manager did concede the situation was far from ideal.

He said: "How can you be short of centre halves when you have four centre halves plus Fabinho? Only Fabinho is injured, Matip is injured and Dejan Lovren had a problem, yes.

“We will not sign a centre half because of injuries - that is the world outside who thinks we are short and we have to do it - but afterwards we would have six centre halves and that wouldn't make a lot of sense.

“And you need quality. You can't have just somebody [for the sake of it] - I am somebody, I am tall, not quick, but I look like a centre half at least.

“Yes I am absolutely concerned [about injuries], but Lovren is not injured. It was a little bit of cramp, and the right moment to take him off, but it is cool, everybody is fine.

“We spoke about squad depth, but we had 16 adult players against Everton, 14 adult players against Bournemouth - it's not that we think we have no clue how to make a squad at the moment.

"How can I tell the boys they are not involved in the squad? We have no problem, there is nobody there I have to explain it to. But yes it is all good, but not perfect."