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Ahead of Liverpool CL’s debut match against Ajax, Reds manager Jurgen Klopp stated:
“Yes, we went into the season with three center halves, more Fabinho as a cover, more little kids as a cover. It’s usually a pretty good number. As a football club, it’s difficult to have four world-class center halves. Right away for a side is quite expensive, [and] on the other hand, one of them doesn’t play for a long, long time. That is quite difficult because it is not a position where you rotate too much, so it is difficult. You can’t always have the solutions before you have the problem. Yes, it is not perfect, surely not. Joel Matip isn’t here either, so that’s not perfect. But that is our situation and we have to deal with it. We will see how we react to it. We are still a bit sensitive in the situation, which is obviously not you. This is exactly why we are in a completely different mood right now than yours. The first question people ask themselves is: ‘What are you doing now in the transfer market?’ We have known since yesterday that our vice-captain and the best center half in the world does not play for us for a long time, we will see how long. And now we work on solutions for now and from a specific point in time, we will try to find solutions for the future, but I have no idea what they will look like at the moment.
Ajax is a top club. If Ajax played in England, they [would] You have to strengthen every year. But they play in Holland, you have different difficulties, I would say. What they can do with their wonderful youth system, they bring in the best players, they can sell them for big bucks all over the world and then the next one is already online. I don’t feel sorry for them, I don’t think anyone should feel sorry for them. It is a sensational club with an outstanding philosophy, with a world-class coach and world-class talent. Meanwhile, from what I see from the outside, they slightly change their philosophy. They are bringing in more experienced players or bringing them back, apart from Tadic, I think almost everyone else played there before, and they mix with the youngsters. They are ambitious and they are top. Two years ago they were in the semi-final of the Champions League. Yes, they lost some players, but again they have a superior team in line and there is nothing to feel sorry for. It’s really good to do it the Ajax way.
We will still try. In the future we may miss Thiago a little more, but so far we only played with him once. Before that, we played without him and he’s a world-class player, 100 percent, but we won a few games without him and we’re going to try properly. About Virgil, we said almost everything. You only realize when you have a difficult time and you realize it in the questions [that] people are just not interested in what we are doing. It’s fun for everyone and, “Watch the Champions League tomorrow night and see how Liverpool will do this or that.” We will try properly, I promise you. There are no excuses for anything. We know how strong Ajax is, we respect them a lot. We almost played them a year and a half ago, but that didn’t happen, it’s not our fault. Now we are here and we play them. It’s a wonderful city, a great stadium, a super team, that’s how the Champions League should be, without having fans in the stadium. It is almost perfect and everything else is normal football. You can barely play exactly the team you want to play for at the beginning of the week because so much can happen and today even more can happen. Our job is to deal with it.
I already said, we will try. Why should I think that boys can’t deal with the situation? But from the number of questions they ask about the game, it is obvious that everyone thinks that we will have problems with it. It means that now we have to prove you wrong, even when I am not even interested in proving you wrong. I’m only interested in the best for Liverpool and for my players. That’s what we are trying to do now and I hope the results we get in the next few weeks will calm them down a bit, but I can’t promise it. “
Source: transfermarketweb.com
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