Liverpool: French 'players are too expensive’ says Jurgen Klopp
Liverpool are well on course to win their maiden Premier League this season as they head into the festive fixtures unbeaten in the league. Second-placed Leicester are some 10 points behind with Manchester City 11 off top spot.
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Liverpool have already added to their ranks in January with the signing of Takumi Minamino from Red Bull Salzburg.
The Reds moved quickly to activate the 24-year-old’s £7.5million release clause.
He will link up with his new team next week and Klopp cannot wait to have the midfielder as part of the squad.
"We will see what we can achieve together in that time, but there will probably be a moment where we have to change things," Klopp told ESPN.
"Improve always, but to change things as well and I really thought it makes sense that I do that instead of another manager coming in and having to do this kind of not really thankful job and like rebuild or whatever and then say, 'oh but Klopp would have done different', stuff like this.
Takumi Minamino has signed for Liverpool from Red Bull Salzburg (Image: GETTY)
"This club became so important to me in a really short time. It's unbelievable, so I feel absolute responsible for probably too much, but nearly everything.
"That's what we try to show with that [contract] extension. We are ready to win whatever we can, but to make sure because there is always a time after me, after another manager, that the club is in the best possible position to carry on in the best possible way.
"At this moment, everyone in the club believes that we need the consolation of the relationship we have with each other, but that it really works out in the future as well. That's important.
"It's not reshaping, but Taki [Minamino] is for sure a player who can help us immediately in the short term and the long term, from an age perspective.
"He's already really good. Everyone could see when we played Salzburg. But still [there is] potential there to become even better. It's not a competition, it's just to have different options in different moments and the door is wide open that Taki can come in the team."