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Jurgen Klopp insists there is “nothing negative” about Liverpool’s goalkeeping options as he challenged Simon Mignolet to raise his game even further.

The Reds boss, who rubbished speculation linking the club with a move for Manchester City’s Joe Hart, has no intention of buying another keeper this summer.

Klopp has been delighted by the manner in which Mignolet has grasped his chance since being recalled as No 1 back in December. The Belgium international is producing the best form of his Anfield career ahead of Sunday’s visit of Crystal Palace.

The manager believes the presence of a “real challenger” in Loris Karius is helping to keep standards high.

When Mignolet was out of the side earlier in the campaign he knuckled down in a bid to prove his worth and he has shown real strength of character to transform his fortunes.

“I think that’s how it should be,” Klopp said.

“I wasn’t impressed how he handled the situation like this - he did it in the professional way, and we know he is professional.

“We know what he can do. The only thing a player in a football team cannot do is moan about the situation in public because it can never change something, only cost the team.

“Simon is in a very good moment and hopefully it will stay like this. It’s a very important position.

“Now Loris has to be the real challenger. He deals with the situation really well also. He has said nothing in public - the only possibility to change the situation is always on the training pitch and that is how it is. This is the business. They both work really hard.

“If something would happen (to Mignolet) then we would still have a really strong keeper, and nothing changes in my opinion. Hopefully it stays like that.

“There is nothing negative to say about it but nothing too positive because the past performance is gone. We have to make sure there is an even better performance next game.”

A new keeper might not be on Klopp’s summer shopping list but defensive reinforcements are likely to arrive.

Liverpool have conceded 40 Premier League goals so far this season - more than second bottom Middlesbrough. Klopp is determined to ensure that tally comes down next term.

“Look at the goals we’ve conceded this season, they don’t make sense as a statistic,” he added.

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“Not a lot of teams have outplayed us. It is not that they create chance after chance after chance, we defend really well. It is not interesting how you concede goals because it’s still a goal, but for us it is important.

“It is not because there’s a fault in our general defending style - it is not that we are too high or can’t defend counter-attacks. We don’t concede a lot of goals like this.

“We are a good defending team, the highest level defending team, but at the end we still concede goals from different situations. We have to improve of course but it is not the biggest issue we have.

“We have conceded a few around set-pieces and a few counters, but not attacks. The number of goals we’ve conceded is absolutely too high.

"It is really rare in my personal history that we concede goals like that big number, but we will work on it 100%. But it’s not about a defending style.”