Klopp wary of Liverpool summer spending spree

Liverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp, has played down talk of a summer spending spree in a bid to revive the Anfield club’s fortunes.

The German boss believes it will be a relatively quiet transfer window despite speculation linking Erling Haaland, Kylian Mbappe and Jadon Sancho with big-money moves.

But, with clubs across Europe still counting the cost of the coronavirus pandemic on their finances as a result of having to play behind closed doors, the continent’s leading teams have a lot less spending money than in previous years.

Liverpool’s finances could be stretched even further if the Merseysiders fail to qualify for the Champions League, with Klopp adamant he will not spend heavily after his side ceded the Premier League title to Manchester City.

Klopp believes many teams won’t move into the transfer window until after Euro 2022, saying: “The market will be really strange.

“I hear about really big money moves… is Kylian Mbappe going? Haaland? Sancho? I don’t see that happening a lot this summer because the football world is still not in the same place it was before.

“We will see how the market will develop but for sure it won’t be an early market.”

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Klopp, pointing out Liverpool had won the Champions League and Premier League during his time at Anfield, said: “I never look at other clubs and think ‘They can do this, so we can’t do that.

“I am not interested in being the coach of the best team in the world, I am interested in being the coach of the team who can beat the best team in the world.”

And he said a fully-fit Liverpool squad could still challenge City, Chelsea and Thursday’s opponents Manchester United, with Reds boss looking forward to seeing Virgil Van Dijk, Joe Gomez and Joel Matip, as well as captain Jordan Henderson, returning to pre-season training.