Jurgen Klopp is unconvinced that Liverpool need to make fresh defensive additions.
The Reds came in for criticism earlier this season for several disappointing defensive showings, particularly in the loss to Tottenham Hotspur.
They have turned a corner over the past two months, though, conceding just four league goals since the beginning of November.
Nonetheless they remain linked to several defenders across Europe, particularly Virgil van Dijk, who they tried to sign from Southampton last summer.
Klopp, though, insists that buying new players is not always the answer to fixing an issue and remains unconvinced about doing so.
“Because we did so well defensively you don’t want us to sign a defensive player?” he said.
“It will never stop until we do it, probably. Everything we are doing has an influence on our plans. I don’t know exactly in which way, you’ll have to wait a little bit.
“When we win a game and defend well then I am happy about that, when we defend not that well as a team then I am not happy about it.
“I don’t think that the solution is a new player always. I’m still a supporter because I love the game but I’m not a supporter in this.
“I cannot change my mind (in an instant) and (say) we need him and think without him it’s like this.
“People stick to their opinion whatever we will do. For example Alberto Moreno played fantastic this season.
“Then he played in in Seville, not well, and people didn’t hesitate to say ‘that’s why we need a new left back’ and I thought ‘wow, if people say the same about you after a bad game that’d be really funny.’
“Thank God I, or we here, make the decisions and nobody else. We are relaxed but have a view on everything.”