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Jurgen Klopp has stressed that he would never emulate players like Pep Guardiola and would insist on large expenses to finance his efforts at Liverpool’s expense, as the club comes first.
The Reds have yet to spend significantly this summer as officials in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic have taken a cautious approach to the transfer market.
A £ 11.75 million deal for Kostas Tsimikas was financed by the £ 10.9 million sale of Dejan Lovren, while the departures of Lovren, Adam Lallana and Nathaniel Clyne have freed up more salaries.
Ties to Bayern Munich midfielder Thiago Alcantara persist, but unlike Manchester City and Chelsea, who have spent a total of £ 195.4 million so far this summer, Liverpool have yet to splurge.
Speaking at Melwood on Friday, Klopp was asked about a possible move by Thiago and if he has more clarity about the club’s financial situation at this stage, insisting that he would never demand money from the club.
“I’m clear enough about it, I think I’m as clear as possible,” he explained.
“It’s not that we’ve ever had that relationship, and we never will, that I go to Mike Gordon and say ‘that’s the money I need and without it we can’t survive.’
“It’s about the club. So I’m pretty clear about our situation, but that’s it.
“There are other clubs that have different policies, obviously, but that’s what to expect. That was the same last year, and the year before about the same.
“We have all our individual focuses, how to overcome the different situations.
“It didn’t really hurt us, in our way, it’s just our way. I can’t change that, I don’t want to, I knew it when I got here, that it is.
“So since I’ve been in, nothing has changed, just times change from time to time, especially now.
“As a sensible person, I know this is not the best time of our lives and why I should plan long-term with this kind of thing.
“We are in a good place and we have a good team. We talk about motivation, if we will be motivated, and that is, of course, my job too, the work of the boys and the fans.
“We can create a feeling together, we can’t just bring in five new players because people want to be busy with that.
“Every year it’s more or less the same, I don’t think I have bought ‘enough’ players in the transfer window for everyone. It was always like ‘ah, here and there, we need another one’.
“And so far it worked, it doesn’t mean it will work forever. We’ve made mistakes and we probably will, but it’s really about what kind of mood we can create again for this season.
“And it’s about really creating a unit that is absolutely hard to beat, is a proper and proper team that is ready to suffer for each other.
“That’s the most important thing, and not who you can buy from at a very strange time in all of our lives.”
