Jurgen Klopp insists Liverpool's plans for the January transfer window have not been disrupted by the uncertainty surrounding the club's ownership.
Fenway Sports Group (FSG) has owned the Reds for 12 years but it emerged at the start of the week that the American sports investment company is willing to sell up. This quickly prompted speculation about how Liverpool would approach the midseason transfer window, with some fans suspecting FSG would be less willing to stump up cash for investment.
Alternatively, the prospect of a new owner being in place by New Year's Day - however unlikely that is - brings with it many questions about recruitment strategy. In the meantime, Klopp and his backroom staff are planning for the January window as normal.
The German stressed he has a "really close relationship" with his FSG bosses and that Anfield officials are continuing to "follow the market all the time, every day". Speaking at his press conference on Friday, Klopp said: "It is not about money, you have to plan.
"It is definitely going on, it's clear. I am very positive about the whole thing because either way it will be fine. I have a really close relationship with the owners and I always knew what we can do and what we can't do. When we were discussing, it's not that I ask something, they say no and I stop asking. It is just before we speak to you there are plenty of discussions.
"Now, we have to see what we do. Nothing is decided, what we will do in the winter. We really have to see, we have time before then and we follow the market all the time, every day. There is no player in the world who scores a goal and we don't know it. That's how it is.
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"If somebody makes a save, we know it. That's the situation, that's what will go on. It's clear. All the rest, we are not involved in these things and that is okay. We have to focus on football and that's what we will do."
There is growing clamour for significant January investment in the squad from Liverpool fans, who have witnessed their side struggle in the extreme during the opening months of the season. The Reds sit eighth in the Premier League table after winning just five of their opening 13 games, losing four times.
A much-changed Reds line-up edged past Derby County in the EFL Cup third round on Wednesday and, in their final game before the break for the World Cup, Liverpool host Southampton in the Premier League on Saturday.
