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Jürgen Klopp has stated that he will not cry like a five-year-old if Liverpool fail to sign the central defender they ideally want in the final 10 days of the transfer period.
Klopp, who has recently paired midfielders Fabinho and Jordan Henderson in the middle of his defense, has admitted that he would prefer to get reinforcements to cover the injured Virgil van Dijk and Joe Gomez and in the frequent absences of Joël Matip.
But the financial effects of the coronavirus pandemic have limited Liverpool’s purchasing power and Klopp insists he will not throw a childish tantrum or use it as an excuse for his recent slip.
“I’m not a five-year-old anymore and if I don’t get what I want I start crying,” he said. “Most of the time in my life I didn’t get what I wanted, to be honest, so we’re all pretty used to that. I am responsible for a large part of this football club, but there are people who are responsible for everything and I cannot make a decision. I know they are with us and I know that they want to support us and they do.
“What we have to do is improve football in the decisive areas with this squad. That’s my job, and not sitting here and being disappointed or frustrated with some decisions. I am not. Of course, we know what we would do in an ideal world, but the world is not ideal and not only for us. So we have to deal with the situation. “
Liverpool are in their longest Premier League drought in 21 years after failing to find the net in 438 minutes, but Klopp declined to attribute the lack of goals to his team’s makeshift appearance, saying his troublesome January has not altered his plans for the rest of the window. He has yet to replace Dejan Lovren, who joined Zenit St Petersburg in July.
“Now we are talking about a central half. Yes, it would help: 100%. Would we score more goals with a center midfielder? I’m not sure. Would it give us a little more stability at specific times? Yes probably. But we don’t go and say, ‘If we don’t get this or that, then we can’t perform.’ It would seem like an excuse, and the last thing we look for is that. “
He denied that complacency had been a factor in Liverpool’s decline: “It’s not that the moment we win the League and I put my feet on the desk and I think it’s done and I smoke a cigar and think: ‘Well done, from now on everything. ‘ it will work without me doing it. ‘
