Klopp Backs Liverpool’s Frugal Approach To Transfer Market
Jurgen Klopp has backed Liverpool’s economical approach to the transfer market and insists the club cannot be wastefully extravagant like some of their rivals are doing.
For the second consecutive season Liverpool have refused to flex their financial muscles, allowing their rivals to steal a march on them concerning potential transfer targets.
Following their Champions League triumph over Tottenham Hotspur in Madrid last summer, the only significant addition to the Reds set up was the £7m January acquisition of Takumi Minamino from RB Salzburg while Olympiacos left back Kostas Tsimikas has been brought in this summer as an understudy to Andy Robertson for £11m.
Meanwhile Chelsea have spent more than £200m to bring in the likes of Timo Werner -a reported Liverpool target – Hakim Ziyech, Ben Chilwell and Kai Havertz while Manchester City have signed Nathan Ake and Ferran Torres for a combined fee of just over £60m.
Speaking ahead of Saturday's Premier League opener against Leeds United, Klopp told BBC Radio 5 Live: "Clubs are in different situations and we are living in uncertainty in the world.
"For some clubs it seems to be less important how uncertain the future is because they are owned by countries, owned by oligarchs, and that is the truth.
"We are a different kind of club. We reached the Champions League final two years ago, won it the following year and won the Premier League by being the club we are.
"We cannot change that overnight and say 'now we want to behave like Chelsea'."
