JURGEN Klopp has directly addressed rumours about the club’s imminent transfer ambitions, and speculation on some of the club’s key personnel, admitting he is in the process of closely scrutinising what his club needs next season.

Although not rushed, nor stressed by the size of the task at hand, Klopp admitted that he’s already got an eye on 2016-2017.

In a big boost, the club’s £300m revenue, up 12 per cent, largely thanks to the sale of Luis Suarez, means he will have one of the biggest coffers enjoyed by an Anfield boss.

“Yes we are planning for next season. Clearly we plan for next season. We have to wait for the right decision and we have to think about a lot of things,” he explained.

“There is nothing to say yet. It is not I can say that we are close to this decision or that decision. But we work the whole day and it is not just preparing for games.

“We don’t have to be first or anything (in the transfer market), but in the end we have to plan for the future and that is what we are doing.”

Klopp also enthused over the challenge ahead.

“I am 100 per cent excited about the challenge. It gets better and better, the more I see. Why? Because I know more. You can watch my story.

“I love the challenge. When I was younger, I thought I had no chance to be part of professional football and wanted to study medicine. I wanted to help people.

“I like to change things and help if it’s possible. It’s a hard way to go. I don’t know what other names (Liverpool owners) FSG would have taken, but I think I am a really perfect solution. I like this.”

He added: “We can’t be successful just because of the history of the club or the name of the manager or the names of the players,” he said.

“There are problems but we are in a good place to solve them. How long do we need for this? Time is very ­important.

“But nobody in England can win the league five or six years in a row, because the financial potential of all the teams is too big.

“To be a challenger is possible, though, you can be a part of it. That’s what we have to be in the future. And to do that we have to make decisions.

“I feel absolutely perfect here. I know everyone here is working so hard. They just need a bit of help, and they need a hand to handle the pressure from the outside... but I can handle that.

“If I had gone to another club, would it have been easier? They would have had other problems. Next season, Pep Guardiola will find that it’s more rainy in Manchester than it is here or in Munich.

“Every day, it isn’t easy. And you are big favourites - so that’s another problem.”

Liverpool chief executive Ian Ayre says that Klopp will be backed over the European summer to do what needs to be done to bring Liverpool back up the table.

“There has never been a situation where we haven’t backed the manager and there will be no difference with Jurgen as we move forward towards the summer,” said Ayre.

“Those discussions will go on and we will do what we need to do on his guidance and contribution. Everyone can expect what they have always seen to date with the club which is to give the manager the support he needs.

“We are very fortunate in that everything we generate goes back into the team and you cannot spend any more than you generate and then some. We have seen in these results the owners have injected further cash into the business for our stadium and written off some money. The support is there as it has always been.”

Klopp responded directly to a plea from Jordan Henderson to re-sign Jon Flanagan, as well as Jamie Carragher’s criticism on Sky Sports of Alberto Moreno and Simon Mignolet.

“Flanno is our boy,” he enthused.

“We will do everything to come together and hopefully it is a positive solution to both sides.

“The Flanno situation, the best news is he is back. But after a long long injury you have to be careful. That’s not easy for Flanno, but really we have to do it.

“Now after a game he needs longer to recover. Not always a game, after a hard training session too, we have to say now stop, and that is difficult for him.”

“I am told there is some speculation about him, if I would say the goal they got was holdable...but Simon knows it too – it’s how it is,” he said.

“If a goalkeeper makes a mistake – I’m not sure if it was a mistake, but it was not perfect – so that’s how it is, football players’ lives, and especially a goalkeeper’s life.

“On the other side I can say absolutely nothing negative about Simon Mignolet – he’s a really good boy, big personality and since I’ve been here he has to handle a lot of pressure.

“He has had a lot of good games for us. So it’s a hard way to go for LFC also, but he’s old enough and experienced enough, and together we have to handle this situation and together we have to go through it.”

As for the maligned Christian Benteke, he added:

. “Timing is everything, and Christian was not in the best ­moment of his Liverpool career. It was obvious.

“This is not a pre-season to give players time – it is a tournament and you have to win all the time.

“The only thing a player can do in a situation like this, not just Christian, is first of all accept it — accept it in a positive way and not think, ‘I am on the bench. I don’t have pressure. Thank God!’

“You don’t talk about the situation either and tell everyone, ‘I haven’t done this’ and ‘I don’t know what is wrong’.

“Then there is only one answer – train as good as you can and then you can be in a perfect moment. It is not about the future, it is about now.

“It is not too funny for him, but the only thing he can do is work.”