Right now, as always, there are plenty of Liverpool transfer rumors circulating in the Twitterverse, blogosphere, cyberspace and media world.
Not all of these deals will actually happen, but they are all interesting to read nonetheless. It’s always fun to speculate who might be coming to/leaving Anfield. After all, the nine or ten months that comprise the actual regular season are just a prelude to the silly season that is the summer transfer window. *Sarcasm font*
No seriously, transfer speculation is a year round phenomenon, but it usually hits a fever pitch this time of year. After all, we’re just nine days from summer transfer window closing. Liverpool Manager Jurgen Klopp has rightfully called out the media’s excessive amount of attention paid to transfer rumors.
He says we’re obsessed.
“I really wait for the day when finally the transfer window closes, because I can’t believe how obsessed you all are with this,” Jurgen Klopp said.
“You don’t believe for a second in things like improvement on the training pitch. I understand that Arsenal was far from a perfect game, but we scored four so everyone could see we could get goals, but we conceded three so obviously we have defensive problems. If you are not really interested in us, then that’s the way you can see the game.”
“Then we played at Burnley, we had 81 percent possession and didn’t score a goal, so now you can say we need another striker if you want.”
Klopp is right of course, but someone needs to tell the funny, angry German that a.) transfers are the topic that proverbially move the needle and b.) all media outlets are under tremendous pressure to consistently move that needle.
He is right though in saying that perhaps we’ve gone too far.
Jurgen Klopp then added this to the discussion:
“As I said before, until Aug. 31, anything is possible because anything can happen. But at this moment, it’s not that we have a main thing to do or that we feel in this position we have nobody, it’s not that we feel we cannot work with the players in the positions or something like this.”
“We are very professional, very clear and always working. I have nothing more to say about this. What will happen, we will see. I don’t know in this moment 100 percent actually what will happen, but it’s not that we have a preferred position where we’re looking for players.”
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