"There's no ceiling for Newcastle. Congratulations. Some other clubs have ceilings."
Since Jurgen Klopp uttered those words, Liverpool have signed Cody Gakpo, Alexis Mac Allister and Dominik Szoboszlai at a cost of around £135m. Clearly, it is not just Newcastle who can do major business in the transfer market.
The point Klopp missed at the time was how Dan Ashworth was speaking about there being 'no ceiling' to Newcastle's ambitions rather than the club's spending power. In fact, in the same set of interviews last October, the sporting director warned that Newcastle's outlay in the transfer market was 'unsustainable' because of Financial Fair Play restrictions.
