‘We have to prove that’ - Jurgen Klopp issues transfer window challenge to Liverpool squad
LIVERPOOL boss Jurgen Klopp has revealed that the club need to prove their transfer policy of not signing any new players was the right strategy, ahead of their Premier League opening fixture against Norwich City at Anfield.
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Liverpool boss Klopp has urged his team to prove that it was the right plan to not make any major additions to the squad.
He claimed the squad has already showed that changes weren’t needed, after drawing in 90 minutes against Manchester City in the Community Shield last weekend.
All of the best teams in history have managed to keep the same core of players, he said.
It made sense to have a quiet transfer window, he added, despite finishing behind Man City in the Premier League title race last season.
I really think it makes sense to keep this team together
Jurgen Klopp
“Is it a gamble? No,” Klopp said. “I really think it makes sense to keep this team together, but we have to prove that.
“If we had bought new players people might ask ‘after you played last season like this you send some of them away?’
“We have to make our decisions based on our expectations of what we think we can do this year. By the way, the history of Liverpool does not end this season.
“We will judge the season and see what we have to do. Maybe then it will be easier to find improvement.
Liverpool: Jurgen Klopp issures transfer window challenge in the Premier League (Image: GETTY Images)
“I really think big teams of the past – and I don’t say we are a big team now, that will be decided in a couple of years – they stay together for a number of years.
“They do not need a lot of changes. I am not comparing us with Barcelona of five, six seven years ago, but they stayed together. A new player came in and then struggled and the same players played again.
“Man United had the class of ‘92. How long did they stay together? They changed a couple of strikers after (Eric) Cantona got older and brought in Van the Man (Ruud van Nistelrooy), or whoever. You do not change completely.
“Nobody knows how it will look exactly but Sunday [in the Community Shield against Man City] showed we will be fine and the rest is what we make of it.”
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