Jurgen Klopp believes he is currently in possession of the strongest Liverpool squad of his Anfield reign.
And the Reds boss reckons the fact they are still competing on four fronts this season is evidence of that claim.
Liverpool added Luis Diaz to their ranks in the January transfer window after accelerating summer plans to bring the Colombian international to the club by striking a £50m deal with Porto following strong interest from Tottenham Hotspur.
Diaz's arrival on Merseyside has coincided with a return to full fitness for a number of players within the squad, and only Sadio Mane - who is currently celebrating a successful Africa Cup of Nations in Senegal - is definitively ruled out for Thursday's visit from Leicester City.
With Mohamed Salah back on Merseyside after Mane's Senegal beat Egypt in Sunday's AFCON final and Thiago Alcantara and Harvey Elliott back fit, Klopp has a wealth of options to choose from for the game against Brendan Rodgers' side.
And the Liverpool manager believes he presently has the best collection of players available to him since he joined the club in October 2015.
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"It's the first time in my life [I am competing for four trophies in February] because in Germany we only have three competitions," Klopp said.
"This is the strongest squad, of course, there is no doubt about that.
"If that wasn't the case then that means that we have gotten weaker over the years. We've always had a strong squad.
"That we didn't make it so far in four competitions in the years before, I have spoken about it before, is for a bunch of different reasons.
"Timing is important in football, so when you come through a brilliant December, for example, on three wheels then it gets a bit bumpy in January.
"In January the cup competitions start properly and that means if you cannot play the players all the time, which we couldn't at the time, or the draws are not that cool - like if we play away at Chelsea or Manchester United - then you have a problem and that was the problem we had.
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"So at this moment, we know we have a really good squad but we know that other teams have really good squads.
"Again, it is not important who is available in the short term, in the long term, yes, but in the short term it is about how the available players perform and that is what we think about.
"Because in the end, whoever is available you can still only line up 11 and change three, so the big decisive squad does not have such an impact.
"But in the mid to long-term, it has a massive impact.
"Hopefully in this period we can really use that because 12 games in that period means we play every three days and that is tough.
"So the more quality we have and the more experienced players we have available the more of a chance we have to win the games if we perform how we have to."
After Thursday night's game a trip to Burnley awaits Liverpool on Sunday afternoon before they travel to Milan for the first leg of their Champions League clash with Inter.
The Reds will also face Norwich City at Anfield for a place in the quarter-final of the FA Cup in early March, just days after the Carabao Cup showpiece with Chelsea at Wembley.
Klopp added: "[This period] is a building block that goes now until the 35th matchday and then there is a finishing clock of three games!
"So we're still building. In the beginning of the season when you have a really good start or a really bad start, whatever, and you ask us what we make of it? It's a start and nothing else, so we have to carry on anyway.
"As long as there is no catastrophe, you have to deal with it. If there is a catastrophe, then probably someone else deals with it.
"That is the situation we are living in, so we create the basis for the decisive moment of the season, that is true. I don't know exactly when that will be.
"We want to be in the different competitions for as long as somehow possible in a position where we can be in the last three or four match-days and they are interesting.
"In the cup competitions we want to be in the competition until the final and then we think about how we can win the final. That was always the same by the way, but it has not worked out that often.
"For us, at least, it has never happened that we are still in four competitions at this point, not for us, so that is special.
"We came through this tricky situation with having two of the best strikers in the world away and not available and Naby Keita, a world-class midfielder, not available, plus injuries.
"But we came through this period, so the boys did a good job.
"Now, again, we have to clear our minds and go for it with all our desire, determination, freshness and all these kinds of things.
"We don't go now for the Premier League, we just go into a Premier League game with all we have and that is the plan."
