Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has said that the club were right to stay “cool” in the January transfer window, as it would have taken “crazy money” to land one of his targets.
Klopp has come under pressure after failing to replace Philippe Coutinho after he completed a £142million move to Barcelona early in the winter window.
The Reds’ did make one singing in the window, paying £75million for Virgil van Dijk from Southampton in a world record deal for a defender.
Daniel Sturridge also departed to go out on loan to West Brom.
The club have been criticised for failing to strengthen in the offensive area, with a move for Thomas Lemar also never materialising.
However Klopp thinks it was the right move, and is happy to wait until the summer to reinvest heavily in his squad. He said;
Unfortunately our business is only from the outside that easy. You miss a player for a week and you think ‘okay, we need another player’.
Yes, we could have done something. But we need really the right thing. The right thing now, you don’t get. The 100% right thing, only for completely crazy money that really makes no sense. I’m not even sure that would work. And in the summer it looks different.
That’s how it is. To do something just to have any solution that makes no real sense, to be honest.
People obviously ask ‘bring him in’ because someone is injured and you need somebody else, but then the other one is coming again and you weaken both or the third one, it makes no sense.
In this situation, you really need to stay cool. It’s more difficult when you’ve lost two games but you need to be serious still.
