Jurgen Klopp says he is not fearful of the sack from Liverpool owners Fenway Sports Group but admits he remains in the Anfield dugout largely due to his past achievements.
Brendan Rodgers and Graham Potter became the latest managerial casualties in the Premier League on Sunday as Leicester and Chelsea took the respective decisions to relieve both of their duties.
That takes the number of sackings in the top flight to 12 in total this term as Rodgers and Potter joined Antonio Conte as three high-profile dismissals in the last fortnight.
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Klopp, meanwhile, slipped to his ninth defeat of the domestic campaign on Saturday as Liverpool were well beaten at Manchester City 4-1, and while the Reds boss accepts he is now reliant on his historical success at the club, he says he is not worried about suffering a similar fate.
"I cannot really explain that to be honest," he said. "I am aware of the fact I am sitting here because of the past, not because of what we did this season.
"If it was my first season it would be slightly different, so that’s it. Yes we have smart owners they know about the situation but to be 100% you had better ask them yourselves why that is the case.
"Am I afraid [of the sack]? No, but I don’t think that Graham was afraid but there is no need for being afraid. I am here to deliver.
"I am not here as a talisman or whatever or for murals on a house wall. I am here to deliver, I know that 100%. I know as well I am still here for what happened in the last few years,
"I don’t like the fact and pretty much I have to rely on that. Is it right or not? We will see that in the future but I am fully in, there is no doubt about it but we have to sort it.
"We cannot continue playing like we do from time to time. Not always thank god but from time to time. That is now allowed. I am really disappointed about us that we do these kinds of things but it happened now we have to find a way out. That is what we are constantly working on."
Liverpool return to action when they visit now managerless Chelsea on Tuesday evening, with assistant coach Bruno Saltor overseeing proceedings for the hosts.
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