KLOPP: WE WILL FIGHT WORLD TO WIN NOW

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JURGEN KLOPP says Liverpool must “fight against the world” to deliver the club’s “most special season ever”.

The Reds boss will find out this morning whether tonight’s Aston Villa-Liverpool FA Cup clash will go ahead, following the latest Covid test results.

And Klopp admitted he does not have the funds to dive into the current transfer window to sign the top-class centre-back his side desperately needs.

But the Anfield chief (above) insisted there is no use moaning – because all football clubs have been hit by the financial devastation wreaked by the coronavirus crisis.

Instead, he says his job is to work with what he has and inspire his champions to even greater heights.

Klopp said: “A supporter may look at it and think, ‘They need a centre-half and the other team has a good one, so bring him in’. I understand that, but that is not my job.

“My job is really to make the players we have here as strong as possible to deal with the trickiest situation you can imagine – three senior centrehalves and they are all injured.

“We cannot sort it now in the transfer market.

“The club will try what it can, but if they can’t, then we have to do what we did so far, even when everyone is thinking, ‘Now they have no chance’.

“We must get stronger as a group, stick more together and fight against the world. Fight against the circumstances. Strike back with all you have and make it the most special season ever.”

Klopp would love to sign a centre-back, with Virgil van Dijk and Joe Gomez out for the season and Joel Matip again sidelined by an injury.

But the Covid-related losses all clubs have suffered make it almost impossible.

Players such as Kalidou Koulibaly, at Napoli, and Leipzig’s Dayot Upamecano are valued way beyond Liverpool’s current budget, while another target, Bayern Munich’s David Alaba, is also out of reach.

And Klopp said: “It is just not likely because of the situation in the world. We should not forget that the situation is a tough one for all people and for football clubs as well.

“If the world was in a normal place, would it be a situation where normally we do something? Yes, definitely. But we are not in that situation.

“We have January and it’s not the easiest window. On top of that, it is not having the money as you want.”

But he did not hold back in admitting a signing would help.

“Is there something we can do to improve our situation?” he said. “Yes, it is clear. But it is like it is.”