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Chelsea manager Frank Lampard says Jurgen Klopp’s comments about Chelsea’s transfer window spending are “a bit funny.”
Chelsea has spent over £ 200 million on new players this summer.
Liverpool manager Klopp said that his club could not spend like Chelsea and was different from “clubs that belong to countries and oligarchs.”
“It bothered me less, I found it more, a little funny,” Lampard said.
Speaking ahead of the start of the season, Klopp, who has spent just £ 11.7 million on Kostas Tsimikas in this transfer window, said the Reds have succeeded ‘being the club that we are’, adding: ‘We cannot change that overnight and say ‘now we want to behave like Chelsea.’
Klopp told BBC Radio 5 Live: “For some clubs it seems 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 club. We reached the Champions League final two years ago, we won it the following year and we won the Premier League being the club we are.”
But Lampard said: “The history of Liverpool, is a fantastic history of a club for more than four and a half years, five years that Jurgen Klopp has been there and that has brought the draft to a really high level.
“The reality is probably that, apart from Leicester, most of the clubs that win the Premier League have recruited well and recruited at a high level in terms of money. You can go through the Liverpool players: Van Dijk, Alisson, Fabinho, Keita, Mane, Salah, incredible players, that came at a very high price.
“Liverpool have done it and they have done it for a period of time. What we have done is come out of a suspension and try to address the situation to improve.”
“We know that Liverpool have gone to a high level, we know they have an incredible coach, we know they have incredible players.
“The really smart thing they’ve done is believe in their coach and their system for several years. It’s a great story, but it’s a story where money has been spent on players.
“This summer we have spent money on players, and now we have to do the hard work.”
Klopp’s team finished 18 points ahead of Manchester City when they won their first league title in 30 years, with Chelsea 33 points in fourth place.
Chelsea were unable to make any transfers last summer due to a FIFA transfer ban, but that was halved on appeal in December 2019 to allow them to bring players from January of this year.
Lampard’s team has signed the winger from Ajax Hakim Ziyech for £ 33.3 million, RB Leipzig forward Timo Werner for about £ 48m, Bayer Leverkusen attacking midfielder Kai havertz for £ 71 million, Leicester City left-back Ben chilwell for 45 million pounds and also brought in central defender Paris St-Germain Thiago Silva in a free transfer.
