Jurgen Klopp has welcomed the arrival of new investment into Liverpool even if it will not mean an immediate boost to his transfer budget.
Fenway Sports Group announced on Thursday it has sold a minority stake in the club to global investment firm Dynasty Equity, allowing them to pay down bank debt incurred during the pandemic and through recent improvements to Anfield and the club’s training facilities.
The new funds will not amount to a transfer kitty for Klopp, although the cash injection will surely help in the longer term.
"I can understand that people see money in football as all about spending and I get that," Klopp said.
"I am part of it in moments and I want to spend money as well but people should not forget that we are building a new stand which will improve... I’m not sure how it will happen but improve the best atmosphere in the world.
"We already built another stand and the training ground, we bought back Melwood (the former first-team training ground), and a lot of stuff that keeps the club in a healthy state for a long, long time.
"If somebody comes in and helps us to do it that’s absolutely great. It’s not that we need a budget of £200million that we can spend for the team, but the better place that we are in the more we can spend anyway.
"We are in a year when we don’t play in the Champions League which is a massive financial blow for a football club but we invested anyway, we improved the team anyway in the summer which is difficult but possible. But it’s good news, it’s money that will be well used."
Liverpool spent big in the summer transfer window to rebuild their midfield, a process accelerated by the unexpected exits of Fabinho and Jordan Henderson, as they brought in Dominik Szoboszlai, Alexis Mac Allister, Ryan Gravenberch and Wataru Endo.
That investment appears to have quickly paid off with Liverpool, unbeaten in all competitions so far, having won five of their opening six Premier League games to sit second going into Saturday’s trip to high-flying Tottenham.
Asked if he was surprised at how quickly his new-look side had come together, Klopp said: "Yeah. I don’t have a timeframe or a schedule for this. The Premier League is the Premier League.
"We had a good pre-season with a lot of players together and that’s the main reason - we could work together and that helped definitely. Then getting results in moments when maybe recently things would have gone the other way helped us grow together.
"The quality of the boys is really good, the potential is outstanding, attitude good too which means a good chance for quality. The group is open to new things.
"We called it a new start, this is year one for this team. These are only words but we live it, so we gave ourselves a chances to create a basis and use it.
"We don’t know how good we are, we don’t know how stable it all is but we all see there are good moments in the games and that’s what we want to increase."
Tottenham have also begun the season unbeaten bar a penalty shoot-out loss to Fulham in the Carabao Cup and Klopp sees a side revitalised under Ange Postecoglou as major rivals in the fight for Champions League places.
"You have Tottenham and Chelsea not in European football, two heavyweights not in European football and having the whole week to train when others travel, not only us but the others," he said.
"It’s a massive advantage so getting to the Champions League will be a massively difficult task this year because of well-rested big animals."
