Jürgen Klopp has insisted his focus is firmly on using the tools currently at his disposal to get Liverpool back to winning ways, rather than relying on the transfer market.

The Reds have followed up an 18-match unbeaten streak with back-to-back defeats in the Premier League and FA Cup - at Swansea City on Monday and against West Bromwich Albion on Saturday respectively.

But Klopp says those results will have no bearing on any decision to add to the January signing of Virgil van Dijk before the window shuts on Wednesday.

The German told reporters: "In the next few days probably a lot will happen in the transfer market and we will see what happens here, but nothing else to say about that. 

"Even if there would be something [to say], it would not help us or another club, to make the deal if [I said something]. That's why it makes no sense to talk about it - you write it anyway. 

"It’s not about replacing anybody, it’s about using our own opportunities, our own tools, players, tactics, formations, all that stuff. 

"Yes, it's right we didn't play well at Swansea, but a few days before we played fantastic against Manchester City. Of course, we could have won anyway at Swansea and exactly the same with the last game. 

"That doesn't say anything about the performances only that the results were not good enough, but we could have won these games. It was not about creating chances, it was about different things in the game: against Swansea, formation-wise; against West Brom, defending. 

"I don’t think Phil [Coutinho] would have helped a lot in these situations, to be honest. We have to [get] immediately back on the winning track, we need results to reach our targets, we know that, but the solution is not out there in the transfer market. 

"We always have open eyes in situations like that but it is not that there is something out there for us to get because we really think first of all we have to use our players. 

"Unfortunately, in the moment when Phil left, Adam [Lallana] got a little injury again. That's unlucky of course but that cannot be the reason for now getting nervous and go out and try to do something.

"In the long-term we will do a lot, in the short-term I don’t think it will happen."