Jurgen Klopp insists that he remains committed to being Liverpool manager.
False rumours circulated that the German was set to walk away from the Premier League champions after last weekend’s 3-1 defeat to Leicester City.
Reds fans showed their solidarity with Klopp, whose mother passed away last month, by hanging a banner in support of him on the gates outside Anfield.
Ahead of their Champions League last 16 showdown with RB Leipzig, Klopp issued a strong reaffirmed statement of his commitment to Liverpool.
He said: “I do not need a break.
“Look, the last thing I want to do is talk about private things in a press conference.
“But everyone knows that we have been through an absolutely tough time, but that was three weeks ago. It was a much longer time already.
“We always deal with it as a family, 100 per cent.
“I’m 53. I have been in football for 30 years. I have been a coach for 20. I can split things. I can switch off, one thing from another thing.
“I do not carry things around. If I am private, I’m private. If it is football and it is the workplace, I am here.
“Nobody needs to worry about me. I might not look like this – because the weather is not cool, I’m white and the beard gets more and more grey.
“Yes, I don’t sleep a lot and my eyes look like this but it’s all fine. I’m full of energy – honestly.”
The 53-year-old also thanked Liverpool fans for pledging their ongoing support to him through Sunday’s public gesture outside The Kop.
“The banner is nice, obviously, but not necessary,” added Klopp.
“I don’t think I need special support at this minute, but it’s nice.
“I’m very grateful about it but people can worry about other things. They don’t have to worry about me.
“The situation is here. I don’t want to have the situation but the situation is an interesting challenge.
“Nobody wrote a book about how you came into a situation like this and how did you solve it, but we will sort it. While we are doing it, it could be tricky.
“But sorting it by playing football, sorting it by staying even more together.
“Sorting it by fighting with all you have, sorting it by learning more than you have learned in each season before – that’s the plan we have.
“Look, strange things happen injury-wise. If someone comes to me and tells me that we have a player with a minor problem, I know it is going to a central defender.
“That’s how it is all the time. It’s unbelievable. That’s the whole season like this.”