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The talking is over, speculation ceased, the rumour mill mercifully slowing.

Now Jurgen Klopp can crack on with the serious business of cementing Liverpool among the elite both home and abroad.

While infamously coined by predecessor Rafael Benitez, the phrase “concentrating on coaching and training my team” is surely better suited to the current Reds boss.

Melwood is where Klopp thrives. And with the transfer window shut, the German now knows with what he and his backroom staff will be working.

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and the fit-again Philippe Coutinho have been added to a squad that has already secured a Champions League group berth and negotiated the first three Premier League games without defeat.

That start means the former will have to be content with the bench at Manchester City on Saturday lunchtime while the latter isn’t quite ready to be considered.

And the manner in which Liverpool have secured four wins from five has sparked excitement among the fanbase ahead of a spell of seven games in 22 days that will go a long way to shaping the Reds’ season.

For Klopp, it’s time to deliver.

“As a club, only one group of people can make this the most beautiful place in the world,” he says. “That is us. That is how it is.

“We cannot say ‘come on, have a different view on us, we are not that bad, the weather is better than in Manchester’. It is about how we show the world who and how we are.

“The football we played last year was good. With the Champions League qualification it was the next step, it was nice.

“On Wednesday we play the first Champions League game for the last three years. Before then we play Manchester City, one of the best football teams in the world.

“It is all exciting and you want to be part of it. You want to be treated and be treated like you want to be.

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“Of course you can tell a player it is like this but you have to feel it. That is mouth to mouth, players talk to each other and they want to be part of it.

“That is nice but in the end we have to deliver still. We cannot just go ‘good player here, good player there’ and it will happen somehow.

“Nothing just happens. We could lose each game with this squad but if we are ready we can also win a lot of the next games.

“That is the best news. We started really well, then we had a two-week interruption, now we have to keep going with a real tough challenge tomorrow.”

Liverpool have netted 14 goals in their opening five games, including four in each of their last two outings at home to Hoffenheim and Arsenal.

Klopp believes such performances are already challenging the earlier perception his squad lacks strength in depth.

“Would you have said the same before we started playing? It was all about ‘we need this, we need that’ and we are not creative enough.

“Now the boys delivered but that is what we expected from us. We have to deliver.

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“We don’t have to perform world class each week and I’m disappointed if we don’t reach that level.

“If we didn’t have the players then Phil would play (against City) and Ox would play. That is how it is.

“Now we need to give ourselves the time as long as the players are fine with it.

“I don’t ask ‘are you fine with it?’ but as long as they are fine with it inside then everything will be good.”

Klopp adds: “It is my job to make sure they are ready and to make another choice about who starts now. From the squad we had two weeks ago, we are plus two in Ox and Phil.

“That is a situation you don’t have too often and of course there will be hard decisions about the squad and things like this and maybe about the line-up.

“The line-up, everybody knows I do it so if they are angry, they are angry at me but I can accept this.

“The squad is different, if you’re not involved, you have no chance to come on and players want to be involved.

“If all are fit then it will happen that a few are not involved, even quality players.

"It has to be like this and hopefully we can have these talks more often in the season.”