Jurgen Klopp has vowed Liverpool will again be a Premier League title contender next season.
Sunday’s visit to Manchester United could see the defending champions hand Manchester City the title they claimed off them less than 12 months ago.
Victory at Old Trafford for the Reds and Pep Guardiola’s side triumphing over Crystal Palace a day earlier would seal the title’s fate with four games to go.
Both Manchester clubs have assumed the league’s top two places this season while Klopp’s side are scrambling to secure a Champions League qualification.
But the Liverpool manager is adamant that his players will redouble their efforts to be firmly in the chasing pack during the forthcoming campaign.
“We are responsible for the things that happened to us,” said Klopp.
“We were for the last few years constantly in semi-finals, finals, fighting for the league title. I don’t know if other teams then felt bad because of us.
“I wish for them not, and I don’t do that. I’m not a person like this. They deserve the situation they are in, that’s football, that’s fair.
“They won an awful lot of games, United turned the game around last night, did that already like 20 times this year, and that’s it.
“We will challenge them again next year, but this year we can only play our season and finish our season as good as somehow possible.
“We have nothing to do, obviously, with semi-finals and finals, we know that, but I don’t feel bad because of that.
“I’ve had my bad moments during the season for other reasons, but not because other teams are winning more games than us.
“That’s not my problem, I have only a problem with the opponent of the weekend, the specific weekend, and not looking at the table and going ‘oh my god, City and United back on track’.
“Life is too short for these kinds of worries or thoughts.”