Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp says he is focused on developing the players already in his squad before thinking about new signings and questioned the "impatience" of English football.
Klopp secured his first Premier League victory on Saturday as Liverpool came from behind to beat Chelsea 3-1, leaving his team eighth in the table, four points behind the top four.
He dismissed a question as to whether Liverpool were ready to challenge for the title as "crazy" and, when asked about a top-four finish, he told reporters: "Oh. I can't believe that England is so impatient!"
Referee Mark Clattenburg then walked past the news conference, and Klopp told the official: "They are asking me about the top four."
Clattenburg replied: "Welcome to England."
Klopp also appeared confused by English football's obsession with the transfer window, stressing that he was far more concerned with training up his current squad than thinking about bringing in recruits.
"I have been here three weeks," he said. "Everyone tells me, 'You want to buy this player, this player, this player,' but development is to work with the players you have. It's like if you have a problem with your wife, you don't want to change every day!
"That is the thing -- you just work and work and get better. You don't think about the summer of 2016. I don't know what will be there. We have to try and work, and get closer and see what we can achieve.
"We have to improve everything and then we can talk about where we will be in the table but, at this moment, in November, we cannot talk. I have my first free day since I am in Liverpool and then we start again. We will see what we can do."
Klopp was grateful for Philippe Coutinho's starring role in the win at Stamford Bridge, with the Brazilian scoring in each half to put Liverpool in front after they had fallen behind to Ramires' early header.
Coutinho had not scored since the opening weekend of the season and told the Liverpool Echo that he had not "been playing so well" in recent weeks.
Klopp said: "Phil is a brilliant player and we don't have to talk about his qualities.
"Sometimes you have to work really, really hard to make football look easy. That is what he did against Chelsea. It was not a perfect start for Phil, but he came back and he was cool enough in the right moment, to shoot at the right moment.
"That is his quality of course, but not always is the sun shining. We have to work hard on days when it is raining for the team.
"I'm not interested in what happened before. I have spoken to Phil -- yes, of course --but my job is to help him, not to say what he is not doing good. He knows the last three games were not perfect, but he needs the games.
"He needs the experience in games to feel what is good and what is wrong. This is the perfect example. The start was not good, but then we came back.
"I love this player. Who can't love Phil Coutinho? I don't expect all day perfection. I expect you to work and try to get better every day. That is what Phil is doing and what the team is doing. That is how we make the next steps."