Jurgen Klopp has said Liverpool are unable to keep up with the spending of Manchester City in the transfer market.
The Champions League winners haven't made a major addition to their squad this season, with 17-year-old Sepp van der Berg their sole signing from Eredivisie outfit PEC Zwolle.
City, meanwhile, recruited Spain midfielder Rodri from Atletico Madrid for a club-record fee earlier this month.
And Klopp says he can't quite get his head around how City are doing it, despite the Blues having only made three major additions to their squad over the last four transfer windows and despite himself having overseen Liverpool spend around £250million in 2018 on Virgil van Dijk, Alisson, Fabinho, Naby Keita and Xherdan Shaqiri.
“I can’t say anything about what other teams are doing," said Klopp. “I don’t know how they do it. We have to pay bills. Sorry! Everybody has to pay bills. We have to pay bills.
“We invested money in this team. Now it looks like we are not. But we are not in this fantasy land where you just get whatever you want. You cannot do it constantly.
“It looks like there are four clubs in the world who can do it constantly. Madrid, Barcelona, City and PSG. Whatever they need, they do.
"You cannot compare that. That is the situation.
“It is not a criticism. I know how people will take it, that I am jealous or whatever. I am not at all jealous."
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/man-city-news-liverpool-klopp-16658440
Klopp Cracking Up
posted on 28/7/19
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Napoli just played them off the park no wonder Klopp is angry
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We'll see what happens when it actually matters and when our best attackers are back.
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I think it will be a disappointing season for you
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Based on a few friendlies?
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Na based on he thinks that every season.
posted on 29/7/19
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What's wrong with what he said? We can spend big, just not every year hence we'll probably have a quiet window after a big one last summer.
Whereas City can routinely spend £100m+ without worry.
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Its because they generate more revenue and have better sponsor deals. If that upsets Klopp, then he needs to moan to his employer rather than crying in the media about other club's spending power.
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thanks to the liberal use of claptrap, Klopp has been able to "get his head around" City signing one player
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What?
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Klopps mousings I mean musings ,claptrap
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Klopps struggle after winning the CL, and the negative pecuniary it involves
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As Samuel L Jackson once said...
Say faakin what one more time
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well then speak english mother facker
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LIke they do in LIverpool?
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thanks to the liberal use of claptrap, Klopp has been able to "get his head around" City signing one player
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What?
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Klopps mousings I mean musings ,claptrap
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What?
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Klopps struggle after winning the CL, and the negative pecuniary it involves
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What?
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As Samuel L Jackson once said...
Say faakin what one more time
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well then speak english mother facker
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LIke they do in LIverpool?
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Well yeah.
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thanks to the liberal use of claptrap, Klopp has been able to "get his head around" City signing one player
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What?
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Klopps mousings I mean musings ,claptrap
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Klopps struggle after winning the CL, and the negative pecuniary it involves
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As Samuel L Jackson once said...
Say faakin what one more time
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well then speak english mother facker
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LIke they do in LIverpool?
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Well yeah.
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posted on 29/7/19
Whenever there is talk of transfer inflation, City get the blame. They have broken their transfer record again this summer, for Rodrigo: £62.8m. And that isn’t small. But it’s still £12.2m less than Liverpool paid for Virgil van Dijk 18 months ago, still £26.2m under Paul Pogba to Manchester United in 2016 and £8.2m beneath what Chelsea gave for a goalkeeper, Kepa Arrizabalaga, last summer.
If Arsenal complete the signing of Nicolas Pepe from Lille this week, City will be roughly £10m shy of that, too. Indeed, as it stands, City haven’t delivered a deal in the top five in England or the top 20 in Europe.
So is this the club whose transfers place them in fantasy land, or the one responsible for escalation in the market? It isn’t new money that began this trend, as any contextualised financial evaluation indicates.
Man City broke their transfer record again this summer signing Rodri from Atletico Madrid
Man City broke their transfer record again this summer signing Rodri from Atletico Madrid
It didn’t get much publicity at the time but this summer a group that analyses the economics of football — Play Ratings — produced a list of the most expensive transfers in history, taking into account relative inflation.
In pure numbers, Luis Figo moved from Barcelona to Real Madrid for £20m less than Manchester City paid for Aymeric Laporte. Yet what does Figo’s £37m in 2000 represent in modern terms? Play Ratings worked that out. And guess what? It turns out old money was inflating the market before new money had its nappy on.
Indeed, Neymar’s £198m move to Paris Saint-Germain only just scrapes into Play Ratings’ top five. The most inflationary transfers, it concludes, were conducted by those clubs that now moan loudest and demand greatest protection from new wealth. In a nutshell? Serie A.
Using a formula involving currency variables and comparative markets through time, according to Play Ratings, the period when Italian clubs were Europe’s biggest spenders saw the greatest extravagance in transfer investment — and one of the most inflationary deals involved the king of Financial Fair Play himself, Michel Platini.
Using the Play Ratings algorithm, the biggest transfer in history was Ronaldo’s from Barcelona to Inter Milan in 1997, worth the modern equivalent of £388m; after that, Platini from Saint-Etienne to Juventus in 1982, calculated at £299m. And on the list goes: Diego Maradona, Barcelona to Napoli; Christian Vieri, Lazio to Inter Milan; Marco van Basten, Ajax to AC Milan; Gabriel Batistuta, Fiorentina to Roma.
Accounting for inflation, Ronaldo's move to Inter was worth the modern equivalent of £388m
And we can all argue about the formula, but not the basic principle. The idea that football’s market was tranquil or even deflated before clubs such as Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain came along is a myth.
There were always a handful of clubs pushing prices skywards, whether from Serie A or the big two in La Liga or Manchester United and, later, Chelsea.
Klopp placed Barcelona, Real Madrid and PSG in the same bracket as City as clubs that can do what they want, when they want — which is ironic as two of that number have recently operated with a transfer ban, and another two might soon be in a similar position.
Yet if Liverpool have not been spending big this summer it is more due to circumstance than being anybody’s poor relations. In 2018, they made Van Dijk the world’s most expensive defender and later did the same for Alisson, briefly, as a goalkeeper. Liverpool’s fee for Alisson is still only £6.5m short of City’s for Rodrigo.
And they have an excellent squad now, without the need for significant upgrades. The last weak link could have been the second centre-half but Joel Matip has grown into a fine foil for Van Dijk. Look at the first reserves across many positions, too, players like Joe Gomez and Divock Origi. Liverpool have strength in depth now.
Do they miss a playmaker like Philippe Coutinho? Yes, occasionally. Did they win the Champions League without one, however? Yes to that, too. And while every coach can think of a hole that needs filling, or a tweak that could offer handy variation, if Liverpool have had a difficult pre-season it is not because the squad is lacking.
Nor is it because Manchester City have priced them out of the market. Rodrigo may look big news on City’s balance sheet, but the clubs who sit in judgement have been there, done that and spent it much bigger, long ago.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-7298819/MARTIN-SAMUEL-old-money-blame-fantasy-land-fees-not-Manchester-City.html
posted on 30/7/19
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Whenever there is talk of transfer inflation, City get the blame. They have broken their transfer record again this summer, for Rodrigo: £62.8m. And that isn’t small. But it’s still £12.2m less than Liverpool paid for Virgil van Dijk 18 months ago, still £26.2m under Paul Pogba to Manchester United in 2016 and £8.2m beneath what Chelsea gave for a goalkeeper, Kepa Arrizabalaga, last summer.
If Arsenal complete the signing of Nicolas Pepe from Lille this week, City will be roughly £10m shy of that, too. Indeed, as it stands, City haven’t delivered a deal in the top five in England or the top 20 in Europe.
So is this the club whose transfers place them in fantasy land, or the one responsible for escalation in the market? It isn’t new money that began this trend, as any contextualised financial evaluation indicates.
Man City broke their transfer record again this summer signing Rodri from Atletico Madrid
Man City broke their transfer record again this summer signing Rodri from Atletico Madrid
It didn’t get much publicity at the time but this summer a group that analyses the economics of football — Play Ratings — produced a list of the most expensive transfers in history, taking into account relative inflation.
In pure numbers, Luis Figo moved from Barcelona to Real Madrid for £20m less than Manchester City paid for Aymeric Laporte. Yet what does Figo’s £37m in 2000 represent in modern terms? Play Ratings worked that out. And guess what? It turns out old money was inflating the market before new money had its nappy on.
Indeed, Neymar’s £198m move to Paris Saint-Germain only just scrapes into Play Ratings’ top five. The most inflationary transfers, it concludes, were conducted by those clubs that now moan loudest and demand greatest protection from new wealth. In a nutshell? Serie A.
Using a formula involving currency variables and comparative markets through time, according to Play Ratings, the period when Italian clubs were Europe’s biggest spenders saw the greatest extravagance in transfer investment — and one of the most inflationary deals involved the king of Financial Fair Play himself, Michel Platini.
Using the Play Ratings algorithm, the biggest transfer in history was Ronaldo’s from Barcelona to Inter Milan in 1997, worth the modern equivalent of £388m; after that, Platini from Saint-Etienne to Juventus in 1982, calculated at £299m. And on the list goes: Diego Maradona, Barcelona to Napoli; Christian Vieri, Lazio to Inter Milan; Marco van Basten, Ajax to AC Milan; Gabriel Batistuta, Fiorentina to Roma.
Accounting for inflation, Ronaldo's move to Inter was worth the modern equivalent of £388m
And we can all argue about the formula, but not the basic principle. The idea that football’s market was tranquil or even deflated before clubs such as Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain came along is a myth.
There were always a handful of clubs pushing prices skywards, whether from Serie A or the big two in La Liga or Manchester United and, later, Chelsea.
Klopp placed Barcelona, Real Madrid and PSG in the same bracket as City as clubs that can do what they want, when they want — which is ironic as two of that number have recently operated with a transfer ban, and another two might soon be in a similar position.
Yet if Liverpool have not been spending big this summer it is more due to circumstance than being anybody’s poor relations. In 2018, they made Van Dijk the world’s most expensive defender and later did the same for Alisson, briefly, as a goalkeeper. Liverpool’s fee for Alisson is still only £6.5m short of City’s for Rodrigo.
And they have an excellent squad now, without the need for significant upgrades. The last weak link could have been the second centre-half but Joel Matip has grown into a fine foil for Van Dijk. Look at the first reserves across many positions, too, players like Joe Gomez and Divock Origi. Liverpool have strength in depth now.
Do they miss a playmaker like Philippe Coutinho? Yes, occasionally. Did they win the Champions League without one, however? Yes to that, too. And while every coach can think of a hole that needs filling, or a tweak that could offer handy variation, if Liverpool have had a difficult pre-season it is not because the squad is lacking.
Nor is it because Manchester City have priced them out of the market. Rodrigo may look big news on City’s balance sheet, but the clubs who sit in judgement have been there, done that and spent it much bigger, long ago.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-7298819/MARTIN-SAMUEL-old-money-blame-fantasy-land-fees-not-Manchester-City.html
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what?
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Do you need reading lessons?
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