'We changed things in the right moment' - Jurgen Klopp explains upturn in Liverpool form

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Jürgen Klopp is encouraged by his team's ability to still do special things.
Liverpool have won six in a row, to give them hope of Champions League qualification.
Klopp is glad his team have showed not everything is bad.
We play a really bad season, I think everybody in this room agrees.
And now we have 62 points.
It's strange, there is still quality in the boys, in us.
And I'm really happy that we could show up a little bit.
Badly it will end up, it's really not about that,
I know everybody wants to go now to the Champions League,
I understand it 100 per cent, I want it, it's just not really likely,
that's the situation we created.
But to show up and show again that we are able to do special things,
I'm really happy about it, and winning six games in a row is special,
and if it would be easy, we would have done it much more often,
other teams would have done it much more often.
Adding the seventh on it, it's even more difficult,
and eight and nine, really difficult,
because it's football and the other teams prepare as well for the games,
and they have as well their targets and all these kind of things,
so that makes it really difficult.
But this part of the season obviously gave us a clear sign,
OK, we are still there, not everything is bad about us and around us,
now we had a bad season, that's it, but let's see what we can make of it.
Liverpool are currently only one point behind fourth place Manchester United,
but Klopp admits a top-four finish is unlikely,
so could that affect their transfer targets for the summer?
When I talk to a player, if I'm allowed to talk to a player,
which is barely the case to be honest, but in the moment when you are,
when you talk to him and he realises that in his eyes,
but then it's already clarified, because we cannot tell anybody
in the moment that we will definitely be in Champions League next year,
so if he's talking to us then it's probably already clear
that he knows about that situation, and that's why I'm not concerned about that fact.
Of course, everything is more difficult without Champions League,
that's how it is, especially in the long term,
so we should not do these kind of things more often.
But apart from that, it's absolutely OK the situation we are in,
from a talking point of view and from a convincing point of view.
The debate continues to surround Mo Salah,
and whether he is one of Liverpool's and the Premier League's all-time greats.
Klopp says he shouldn't be overlooked.
No, not from us, not from the Liverpool supporters, maybe from you.
I don't know, because this question is now not the first time that I hear it.
It means not from us, and I say a lot of times he will be an all-time great
after he finishes his career, but now he's still in his career,
and if you see Mo every day, there's still a really good few years in his legs and in his body,
so the numbers will even improve, and that's absolutely great.
No, we don't overlook it, but I can imagine if you get questions asked that often,
you might be guilty of overlooking it. I don't know.
