Liverpool Manager Jurgen Klopp knows all too well the enormous pressures and tremendous expectations that go along with being boss of a huge football with a gigantic and zealous following. You can truly see that in action during the summer silly season, when the transfer window dominates headlines.
Liverpool Football Club have had a rather quiet transfer window, certainly so since the Mohamed Salah signing, and it’s making their passionate supporters anxious. Thus, when Jurgen Klopp answers questions about the LFC’s lack of recent transfer activity, he does whatever he can to try and allay their concerns.
Klopp, a highly intelligent, very intense and often extremely entertaining individual, has varied his methods when field transfer inactivity questions. First he said that deals were getting done behind the scenes.
Then he praised patience.
Next he went the humorous route, once the Naby Keita negotiations went nowhere. Now he says he’s not completely sure that more deals will get done. He says it’s possible, and maybe probable, but he just doesn’t know.
“What can I say? Will the squad change until the 31st August? Probably, maybe,” Klopp said. “We are not 100 percent sure.”
“Maybe nobody wants the players we have. On the other side maybe somebody wants to loan them or buy them. It’s pretty likely. The plan is in the end we have a squad that is big enough to cope with the intensity of all the tournaments.”
Although Anfield did break the club transfer fee record to sign Salah, Chelsea cast-off Dominic Solake is the only player the Reds acquired this summer. Still Jurgen Klopp remains confident he has enough depth to talent to take on the added workload arising from Liverpool’s return to Europe this season.
“The first thing we have to do now, not just all the transfers, is to prepare for the Premier League and the Champions League qualifier. That’s my main target. Everything else is prepared. We know all about the players,” he continued.
“The more important thing now is to get the players here now fit for the first games. That decides a lot and I really want to use a nice base.”
Jurgen Klopp has previously voiced his opinion on how important he finds the preseason, from an on-the-pitch stand point. His side is currently in Hong Kong on exhibition tour. They’ll take on Crystal Palace in a friendly today.
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