New Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp targets title in four years

The 48-year-old, speaking at his maiden press conference at Anfield, also stressed the club’s history should not weight heavy on them as they begin a new chapter.

Liverpool, who sacked Brendan Rodgers after Sunday’s 1-1 draw with Everton, have not won a league title since 1990.

"Please give us time to work on it. Please be patient," said Klopp. "I don't say we have to wait 20 years, in four years I hope to win one title.

"It’s very important not to be weighed down by history. Let’s not always compare with other times. History is only the base for us. You can't carry it in your backpack every day. Five or six clubs in the Premier League can win the league. It's a problem."

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Klopp labelled the job the "biggest honour" in football and insisted the players at the club were already good enough.

"This is a great club with good potential with players who are flexible," he said. "Let’s try to start a new way. Now everything is different.

"Here is a German guy, for the first time. I want to listen. I go to Melwood and I look at what works and what doesn’t work. And then start to play very emotional football.

"We cannot change the rules of the game. We have to work together and feel if the team has some problems or not."

Rodgers' downfall was partly due to the club's failings in the transfer window, with the club's transfer committee coming in for stinging criticism following the Northern Irishman's departure.

However, Klopp was quick to insist he was happy working with the committee - providing he had the first and last word on any transfers - adding that it made perfect sense to work as a team.

"For me it's enough that I have the first and last word, and in the middle we can discuss about everything," he said.

"It won't take a long time because we only want to discuss about very good players. Its discussing on the very highest level, I hope.

"I'm not a genius, I don't know more than the rest of the world, I need the other people to get the perfect information and when we get this we will sign with a player or sell a player. But it's really easy to handle this."

When quizzed about whether he had a tagline akin to Jose Mourinho’s ‘special one’, Klopp followed the approach of former Chelsea boss Avram Grant and reluctantly said he was the "normal one".

"I don't want to describe myself," he said. "I'm a very normal guy from the Black Forest. I'm the normal one, if you like."

Klopp also swatted away comparisons with great managers in Liverpool’s history, insisting it was really not that important.

"It's really cool that you guys are looking forward to the next months and years with me, but I don't think about it," he added.

"Not one of these great managers said at his first press conference: 'my goal is to be a legend at the end of my time here’."

Liverpool chief executive Ian Ayre, perched next to Klopp throughout, added: "We wanted someone who could take on the size, the might and the ambition of the club."

Klopp's first match in charge as Liverpool boss is away at Tottenham in the Premier League on October 17.