Liverpool chiefs admit they need to get their season on track this month.
Aside from the sheer volume of the fixtures that await them this month, Liverpool also have some sizable ones in there with title rivals Manchester City and Premier League leaders Arsenal before tricky-looking affairs at Nottingham Forest and at home to Leeds United. There are also the first ever competitive meetings with Rangers in the Champions League, too.
"We need to get going," one senior source told the Liverpool Echo this week when the attention turned to a hectic nine-game October, something which manager Jurgen Klopp himself addressed on Friday.
"For us now, the next six weeks are obviously very important," said the Liverpool manager.
"We didn't have the start we wanted to have for some explainable reasons and for some non-explainable reasons that we shouldn't even try to, it was just not good enough at certain moments. But that is now is our basis and the job is to collect points. Bam! Start doing it now."