With less than two weeks to go until the season starts and the end of the transfer window, Liverpool have still not made what you would consider a blockbuster signing.
With young defender Sepp van den Berg joining Liverpool for £1.3m and Fulham’s Harvey Elliott reportedly on the verge of a move to the current European Champions, these players are for the future instead of the present. Therefore, they are unlikely to have much of an impact next season due to Liverpool’s well-stocked first-team squad.
As reported by the London Evening Standard, Liverpool believe giving Sadio Mane, Mohamed Salah and Trent Alexander-Arnold new contracts are just as important to being active in the transfer market.
This is what Jurgen Klopp told ESPN, also cited by Evening Standard.
That’s actually our transfers, these are our transfers.
I’m pretty sure nobody is interested in it really because, how it is: you have a player, he’s good, you want to keep him if he signs a new contract then for a few people it means only that he’s a bit more expensive if you want to sell him. It doesn’t mean anything.
In our case, it was [that] these are our transfers. These new contracts, keeping these boys here, was a strong, strong signal for the outside world. It’s a wonderful sign, to be honest.
Klopp went on to explain how Liverpool can still improve without making major signings.
You don’t have to change for changing. You have to improve things and the same person doing the same job for another year means he’s better in the job – that’s an improvement.
It’s not about bringing new people and stuff like that, it’s really about all of us using the experience that we made for being better than before.
All this experience, all these better people throwing their knowledge together, we will be better.
With time running out for the Reds to make new signings, reports in France have claimed that Liverpool have agreed a deal with Lille to sign Nicolas Pepe.
The Reds will face stiff competition for the Ivorian and securing a deal would be a major boost for the club.
