Jurgen Klopp believes Liverpool can make enough improvements this summer to ensure they are challenging for the Premier League title once more next season.
The Reds enter the final two weeks of the season in fifth and with only an outside chance of a top-four finish to play for with league leaders Manchester City 20 points ahead and embroiled in a title battle with Arsenal.
It will be only the second time in five seasons that Liverpool will finish outside the top two and the drop-off this term from the general level of recent years has been alarming at times.
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A recent return to form, however, has seen Klopp's men go eight games unbeaten and they head into Monday's match with Leicester City looking to extend their winning streak to seven.
Klopp believes that he and his players can make the necessary amendments to ensure they are once more battling it out at the top of the table next season, saying his team can rediscover the consistency that has underpinned their results for much of the last five years.
“There are two games a season, maybe with cups three, four or five, when you play Man City, Arsenal and the others," the Liverpool boss said. "There are five million ways to win a football game, you only have to find one.
"A successful season is when you are ready for all the games, that you can win 25-odd games and then if City, Arsenal, Chelsea, Newcastle, Tottenham, Man United are all involved in that 25 then it is even better.
"But it is about can we create a team who can win the majority of the games? Yes. We can. It was never about what the other teams do. We didn't become champions by a point twice and there will be some people who said it was because we didn't have this player in that moment.
"Getting 90-odd points is absolutely insane, pretty special, and no-one should take these things for granted. The top seven get even closer together, it will be more difficult and more competitive. It doesn't make it easier but everyone with a good idea has a chance to be part of it. If you are part of the battle up there then you can win it as well."
Klopp added: “I never questioned these boys. Never. Mentality-wise these boys are exceptional, really. But we still couldn't deliver for long periods of the season consistently good, successful football.
"We couldn't otherwise we would be somewhere else. Is that normal for human beings? The period was a bit too long but yes. For everyone it is a relief to go again, to be winning again in a convincing way and not scrap three points.
"We have a clear idea of what we want to do. We won 1-0 but I saw so many good things we could build on. Nothing for Match of the Day, it won't show up there, but I saw so many things in these games. I'm absolutely fine with the reaction now but we all think it was a bit too long until we showed it. All we can do is go for the last three games and make the best of what we have so far."
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