Klopp charges against Chelsea and City for their spending on transfers

Jurgen Klopp is not characterized by biting his tongue and this time he has returned to say what he thinks about the transfer cost of his rivals in the Premier League. The Liverpool coach, current champion of the competition, gave an interview to the journalist Kelly Cates of the radio station BBC 5 Sport and did not miss the opportunity to send a message poisoned to his opponents by the excessive spending on transfers this summer.

“We live in a world at the moment with a lot of uncertainty obviously. For some clubs owned by countries and owned by oligarchs it seems less important how uncertain the future is, that's the truth.”said the German in clear reference to Manchester City and Chelsea, which have reached € 80M and € 223M in transfers, respectively, in this latest market window. By cons, the Merseyside team has only paid 13 million euros to left-back Konstantinos Tsimikas, from Olympiacos.

Klopp continued with his speech justifying Liverpool's low spending on transfers this summer. “We are a different club. We reached the Champions League final two years ago, we won a year ago and we got the Premier League last season for being the club that we are. We cannot change it overnight and say 'we want to behave like Chelsea, behave like them'. Now they have signed many players. That can be an advantage, of course, but that means also fitting in pretty quickly, it's not just about signing quality. You can't bring in the 11 best players in the world and wait a week later, they play the best football they ever played. This is done in the training field and it's probably an advantage for us. We've worked with each other for a long time, but I know people don't want to hear that, but we did last year, sort of like this. For our reasons, those of the club, we always want to improve, we always want to improve the squad, but there are different ways. “