Liverpool news: Our strategy is to sign the right players in the right moment, says Jurgen Klopp

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp gave a little insight into the club’s transfer strategy ahead of their FA Cup commitments this weekend. The Reds completed the signing of Colombia international Luis Diaz in the recently concluded January transfer window. It was one of the eye-catching purchases in the January window by a Premier League club. Ahead of Sunday’s Emirates FA Cup fourth-round tie with Cardiff City at Anfield, Klopp discussed their transfer strategy and also spoke about Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah’s respective nations reaching the Africa Cup of Nations final.

On Liverpool’s transfer strategy, Klopp said in his press conference, “Our strategy is to sign the right players in the right moment. Was there ever a team who spent £200m in one transfer window? It’s all about that. We recognise issues; we recognise issues like on positions or with contracts or these kind of things. We are long together with this team, it’s great; fantastic team, one of the most successful in the history of this club. But we will never miss having a look ahead as well. That’s exactly what we are doing. But we are Liverpool so we cannot only work with talents and let’s have a look in two or three years that they will be ready.” 

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“This must be always a mix-up of everything. We have a lot of talents, we have really great players in the moment here; in the first-team squad and around the first-team squad, a few of them I’m 100 per cent sure they will definitely be Liverpool players, but not now. And that’s what we do, building a team for now and for tomorrow. With the things we do, we are happy. If other people are not happy with this, I cannot change that. This is the way the club is doing it, I think pretty much already before I arrived. And since I’m here I’m absolutely used to it and that’s the way it is.”

Klopp on Mane and Salah

Klopp was then asked about his thoughts on Mane and Salah reaching the AFCON final and whether the squad will watch the game together. “With the team? Nothing planned yet, didn’t think about it. But we followed it pretty closely. Great achievement obviously for both, getting through to the final. It’s great. Naby played an exceptional tournament as well; unfortunately was suspended for yellow cards in a decisive game for them, I think otherwise Guinea would have had a good chance to go a bit further as well.” 

“So, so far a really successful tournament for our boys. It will be exciting. Now it’s obviously not so easy because we have to watch the game and one will be definitely really happy after it, and the other one much less so. But both have a good chance to achieve something really big.”