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Jurgen Klopp believes Liverpool have never been better placed to fulfil his first-day promise, but warned they must still work to be the complete team.

When Klopp was unveiled as Brendan Rodgers' successor in October 2015, he said: 'If we sit here in four years, I think we win one title,' and joked he would end up in Switzerland if that did not come true.

It has taken Liverpool three years to launch a proper assault for the Premier League and with four matches to play, they have put reigning champions Manchester City under pressure which nobody foresaw at the beginning of the campaign.

Liverpool, who are also in the Champions League semi-finals against Barcelona, have everything to gain in the next few weeks but, equally, one slip and they risk ending up with nothing.

It is an intense situation but one that Klopp believes is bringing the best from his players.

'People reminded me when I came here and signed a four-year contract that in four years we probably would have won something,' said the German, who renegotiated his contract in July 2016 so that it now expires in 2022. 

'It didn't happen yet. Look, both sides — the club and myself — have a wonderful commitment that we really try everything to make the club as successful as possible.

'How long it will take, I have no clue. The position we are now in I am really happy with.

'It is not the final position we want to be, but the awareness from outside of the club of where we are — second (consecutive) time in a Champions League semi-final — is really special.