"We Cannot Just Spend": Klopp On 'Splashing The Cash' On Midfielder In January

Liverpool have signed Cody Gakpo but fans are urging the club to make at least one more signing in the January window. The team clearly needs a midfielder and the likes of Enzo Fernandez, Moises Caicedo and Adrien Rabiot have been linked with a winter move to Anfield.

However, Jurgen Klopp has poured cold water on these rumours, insisting that he wants to build with the current squad.

"I am now here seven years and a few months, and every window is pretty much the same," Klopp said, as quoted by the Liverpool Echo.

"We talk about these things as though money wouldn't play a role. It is never like this, that we can just spend money.

"I don't want to disappoint anybody and their dreams, but we sign an outstanding player like Cody Gakpo and the next thing you read is 'who's next?'. It's like we didn't have a team.

"Honestly, we cannot play like Monopoly. We never did and I don't understand it. Of course we cannot just spend and never could. And we always sort our situations.

"It is a big part of my philosophy, really working full of faith and trust with the players we have and not constantly questioning them by telling them that we need another player in their position.

"But that somebody is surprised when I say we will not now start splashing the cash - is that the phrase? I never did it but I know it anyway! - that should be really clear. If there is something we can do, and that was always the case, and that means the right player and financial situation, we will do it. Then if not, then no."

Source: Tribuna