Jurgen Klopp says he is not “good enough” to decide whether he will prioritise winning the Premier League over retaining Liverpool’s Champions League title this season.
The German manager won his first European title last term with victory against Tottenham in Madrid after the Reds had finished one point behind domestic league champions Manchester City.
Liverpool have not won the league title since 1989/90 but Klopp is refusing to designate any specific targets at an embryonic stage of the campaign, ahead of the Super Cup match against Europa League winners Chelsea in Istanbul on Wednesday.
"Unfortunately I am not good enough to decide that! I have to take what I can get. That is how it is," Klopp, whose side began the league campaign with a 4-1 victory against Norwich, said.
"We didn't decide last year that we would go for the Champions League and ignore the Premier League obviously so we just try to win the next football game.
"That is [Wednesday] night and that is difficult enough. I am not a genius so I have to take what I can get.
"Last year thankfully we won something, celebrated it, so now let's carry on."
The meeting with Chelsea marks a return to the city in which Liverpool memorably won European football's premier club competition in 2005 with victory against AC Milan.
"I know about the special importance of Istanbul and what a special place it is for every Liverpool supporter. 2005, nobody will forget it," Klopp said.
"We are different people though, team in 2019/20. That's a pretty good one as well."
'Chelsea are an interesting team with good plan under Lampard'
Liverpool are viewed as pre-match favourites to defeat Chelsea, who suffered a heavy 4-0 defeat in Frank Lampard's competitive bow as head coach, and Klopp believes the loss was not reflective of their performance.
"I didn't know everybody expected us to win! No problem what people think around us," he said.
"We respect Chelsea a lot. If you saw the game against United and if you only saw the result you would have no idea how the game was. They played a good game.
"They are a really interesting team, with a good plan. Frank did an outstanding job last year [at Derby], changed the football there. Now he is at Chelsea - his club - everything is fresh.
"It is the first title they can win together. They will be 100 percent ready and we have to make sure we are ready as well be.
"Everything that doesn't help you in the game we have to ignore and that's what we do, actually."
'Wait and see on Lovren'
Dejan Lovren was not included in the travelling squad and Klopp insists the defender's absence is illness-related rather than transfer-based, with Roma in talks with the Reds over a deal, Sky Sports News understands.
Asked whether why the 30-year-old centre-back would not feature, Klopp said: "It's because he is ill.
"We will see what happens in general, not just in this window."