Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp is taking full responsibility for his side's recent poor form.
The Reds were thrashed 4-1 at second-placed Tottenham last Saturday, which caused many to fault the team's defence and re-open questions about the club's failure to sign a big-name defender in the summer.
However, instead of letting the blame fall on owners Fenway Sports Group's perceived lack of investment, the former Borussia Dortmund boss bore the weight of the club's current misfortune on his own shoulders.
"I am 100 percent responsible for all this," Klopp told multiple outlets in the UK on Friday.
"I know I am. I can not blame the owners. Even if I would want to shift the blame, I can not say the owners are the problem here or the players are the problem. No.
"I don't think I am the problem. It is about relationships. We have to do things better. It is not that I don't know how it should work.
"People maybe think that happens in football, that one day you lose half a brain or whatever, but that is not how it is.
"We have to create a mood and atmosphere where the players can deliver what is needed."
Liverpool sit 12 points behind impressive leaders Manchester City in the Premier League table, which has caused Klopp to be criticised for not shoring up the back line with a summer reinforcement or two.
Klopp insisted he is still the right man to lead the club going forward.
"I got so many messages this week saying 'don't listen to the pundits.' I had no idea what was said but I can imagine.
"People think maybe I'm not the right one anymore and stuff like this. Inside [the club] nobody thinks it. Not from the owners and not from me. We all want to do it the right way.
"Okay, we can try again like we did two years ago and bring in a new manager but the problems are always the same.
"Obviously the other teams are really good and you cannot be [immediately] better than them. But we are on their level when we play them usually.
"Tottenham was the first time it didn't work. We all know that even though the result at City looks s---, we were on their level.
"Now we go again talking about defending, players and our mistakes in the summer. It makes absolutely no sense.
"How can we think like this? We have to look in this direction -- the future. We cannot talk about the same things as other people do -- that this one or that one is not good enough.
"They are all good enough. My responsibility is to give them all the information they need to deliver. I feel responsible for that.
"I told the boys for me it's really easy to take all the responsibility for the bad things. Maybe I didn't explain it right or whatever.
"But for the first two goals [against Spurs] I have no clue. I'm thinking: 'What? It's impossible!' but we'll forget about it."
Klopp's immediate attention is focused on his side bouncing back from last weekend's lopsided loss at Wembley to Spurs, which could prove tricky with Huddersfield visiting Anfield a week after their famous upset of Manchester United.
"If we ignore the Tottenham game and ignore the City game -- I know it's difficult but try -- then we'd say we've played well, defended well and then like at Newcastle we've made one mistake, one goal," he added.
"Watch City, watch United, they make mistakes but they don't concede in these moments. We conceded in all of those moments when we make big mistakes.
"But we are still 100 percent convinced together and will try whatever we can. There is pressure, we cannot ignore that. Huddersfield at home we need to win. That's how it is. We need to try everything.
"So far a lot of things worked really well but not even I can remember that now and say 'yes it's still good' because Tottenham was a real knock. Thank God we had a few days to deal with it.
"We've got a lot of games to come and if we can do what we're able to and use our experience then it can still be a wonderful season."
