Klopp: Liverpool cannot act like Chelsea in the transfer market

Liverpool coach Jürgen Klopp.

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Liverpool coach Jurgen Klopp said he was not worried about the team's lack of activity in the summer transfer market compared to clubs like Chelsea.

The Chelsea team, led by coach Frank Lampard, spent nearly 200 million pounds (260 million dollars) on contracting players like Kai Havertz from Leverkusen (71 million), Timo Werner from Leipzig (45 million), and Hakim Ziyash (33 million), And Ben Chilwell from Leicester (50 million).

Klopp added that his team only contracted with Costas Tsimikas for 11.7 million pounds sterling, because the "uncertainty" of the Corona virus "is less important for some."

"We cannot change this overnight and say we want to act like Chelsea," Klopp told the BBC.

He added, "The clubs are in different circumstances, and we live in a state of uncertainty in the whole world."

He stressed, "For some clubs, uncertainty about the future appears to be less important, because they are owned by countries, or owned by a powerful group that controls countries or a specific industry, and this is the truth."

Liverpool have a different look at the transfers after taking advantage of the sale of Philippe Coutinho to Barcelona in 2018, and completed his contract with Virgil Van Dyck in a record deal and goalkeeper Alison.

As a result, Klopp created a team that reached the Champions League final twice, and now the new Premier League season begins as the defending champion for the first time in the last 30 years. “We are a different kind of club,” Klopp added.

"We reached the final match in the Champions League two years ago, and we won the title the following year and won the Premier League title by being the club we are," he said.

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