Premier League news LIVE: Latest updates as Jurgen Klopp responds to Liverpool defeat

Elsewhere, Mauricio Pochettino has been giving updates on Chelsea and he comfirmed that Cole Palmer is ready to play this weekend.

Poch said: “No they [Reece James and Levi Colwill] are not available yet they are close. Yesterday, they were doing some training with the squad. They are close but still not available.

“Yes, Cole [Palmer] was training well in the last few days. We assume he is going to be ready for tomorrow, be part of the squad.”

Klopp said: “It’s tricky. Strikers have to go through these things. That’s how it is. That’s a striker’s life.

“A goalkeeper’s life is make 500 saves, then one howler – and everybody talks about this. A striker’s life is you score all the time, then you don’t score for a while and then everybody asks why you don’t score.

“It can be the most difficult thing in the world and sometimes it’s the easiest thing in the world, depending on what chance you get.

“We had good chances against Everton but again we were a bit in a rush in finishing them off. So create again, create again and try and get in the right positions to finish the situations off.

“It will be a really rich man or woman who can write that book [on a striker getting back to their best]. You have to go through it. I try to help them speeding it up. That says nothing about the quality of the boys.”

Klopp was asked how he would assess his final season at the club and he replied: “I would not assess it now. I have no clue, so I am not in the mood to give up, wave the white flag kind of thing.

“I just think we have to look after ourselves; just make sure that we play better football. I said after the game ‘why should a team who play like us against Everton be champions?’ But the football we played before, a lot of good stuff. In January we looked invincible, with a depleted squad. Everybody went in the same direction, go for it, squeezed out results.

“So, we deserve to be where we are. I want us to use the situation, don’t feel the pressure, for whatever reason it is. The boys are incredible footballers and I see it as my job to create that atmosphere where they can be the best versions of themselves – and that’s obviously how I have failed.

“I don’t know how it happened, but I didn’t see anything of what I wanted us to be in the Everton game.”

“David is one of the best colleagues. We don’t have time to spend together but actually we spoke over the years a lot before games.

“Like him a lot. Respect him a lot. I think he is doing an incredible job, to be honest. I like the team they have; offensively, really talented. He’s doing a ridiculously good job.

“Jarrod Bowen – I have said a couple of times, one of my favourite players. I like him a lot since he developed.”

After 33 goals in 92 appearances for Liverpool, should the club be looking to depart with Darwin Nunez this summer?

Jamie Carragher, speaking on Sky Sports, had this to say: “I think there is a question to ask,

“You want him to do well because there is so much that you like because he gives everything, he runs and causes trouble and gets the odd goal and gets an assist.

“But after two years when Liverpool this season are going to the title and those big games, you need your man to score away at Old Trafford, away at Goodison, in the European game at Atalanta. There is no time to waste, this is not October or November. This is the business end.”

Here’s the Sheffield United boss giving an update on his squad plus his thoughts ahead of the weekend:

Jurgen Klopp was asked how to describe what it’s like to manage Liverpool and he said: “Best job on the world. Best club in the world, and helps, obviously, with not finishing on a high, it looks like.

“Great job, great team, fantastic people. [Slot] ‘would’ [Klopp makes quote marks sign with his fingers] be taking a really interesting job.”

“I’m not involved in the process, but I like a lot about it it, if he is the one and wants to take the job.

“I like the way his team plays football. All the things I hear about him as a guy – a good guy. Some people I know, know him. I don’t know him, but some people who know him say he’s a good guy. I like that a lot.

“So good coach, good guy. Looking forward for the club, if he is the solution, if he is the man, I am more than happy.”

“Did anyone expect us to become champions at the start of the season? No, but it developed in this direction.

“We go now to Aston Villa, they still have a few points less than us, so we need points still to be definitely [qualified for Champions League places], also Tottenham. Nobody here is happy at all.

“Just to explain how different it is. We cannot go back to the point where we say ‘yeah, well [qualifying for the Champions League] is good enough’.

“It is very good, but because we were so close, we are very, very disappointed in this moment in time. We cannot change that.”