Jurgen Klopp wants Loris Karius to prove that Liverpool don't need to splash the cash on a new No 1 this summer.

The Reds boss has hit out at the current scrutiny on the club's goalkeeper situation and has backed the German shot-stopper to silence his critics over the coming months.

Karius will be given the chance to establish himself in the side after Klopp opted to axe Simon Mignolet.

Liverpool have been linked with a number of keepers including Atletico Madrid's Jan Oblak, Roma's Alisson and Stoke City's Jack Butland. However, Klopp believes his current crop are judged unfairly when compared to their rivals.

"My favourite solution, always, is that we do it with our boys," Klopp said.

"They step up, they deliver, they improve. The problem they have is that everyone is watching them (through a magnifying glass) and saying 'still not good enough!'

"I will only mention one name. Everyone talks about him with us and that is Butland. I only saw the game (against Manchester United).

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"Fantastic goalkeeper but was he perfect? No. He wasn’t in that game. But everyone says 'still better than our boys!'

"It makes no real sense if he comes in and makes a mistake in his first game. Everyone then says 'we need another and another one and another one'. We have to cool down. These boys all have big quality.

"These lads are here and now they have to create a situation where they can show it every week. It doesn’t mean they will be free of mistakes for the next 20 years. Nobody can do that."

Klopp rotated his keepers in the first half of the season with Mignolet lining up in the Premier League and Karius handed Champions League matches. Third choice Danny Ward played in the League Cup.

The manager insisted that Belgium international Mignolet remained his No 1 but he had a change of heart in the build up to last weekend's visit of Manchester City.

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Klopp has now opted to put his faith in Karius and says the 24-year-old is better placed to shine than last season when he crumbled under the pressure.

The former Mainz keeper was taken out of the firing line inside three months and spent the second half of last season warming the bench.

Asked what he had seen to convince him that Karius was ready to step up, Klopp said: "The games he played and the performances he's had in training. It’s easy.

"I don’t have any other opportunities to judge the situation. That is enough. That is what a football manager does most of the time – he watches training, he watches the games. We gave him the opportunity to play a few games.

"The way I saw it, it made 100% sense to rotate over the Christmas period. Last year I decided already that if I had the opportunity to do it, we would do it between December 30 and January 1.

"It was so hard for all the players but the goalkeepers have mental stress and in games like this you want 100% concentration, it's not a physical thing. So I made the decision pretty early.

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"Now we've changed the situation. It is not nice for Simon but it's a big chance for Loris. Wardy is still here. He needs to do a lot of things that will make him better but he is here and he is still in our minds.

"He is a good goalkeeper, he has to be even better in the future. We have a good situation – a healthy situation, if you want.

"It is not that we want these discussions in public if they are there about goalkeepers. It is not a case of 'get somebody else'. It is about getting the right solution and it's possible that the right solution is one that we already have here."