Jurgen Klopp has admitted he doesn’t understand how Chelsea have been able to spend as much money as they have over the past two transfer windows.
The Londoners broke the British transfer record to sign Enzo Fernandez in an £106m deal from Benfica on transfer deadline day, taking their spending in January alone to over £250m.
In contrast, Liverpool weren’t in a position to strengthen their squad further after bringing in Cody Gakpo from PSV Eindhoven for an initial £37m, with the eyebrows raised at the Reds’ decision not to strengthen their midfield.
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And while Klopp pointed out Graham Potter still has to find a way to get all his new signings to play together, he shared his bemusement at just how much Chelsea have been able to spend.
“I say nothing without my lawyer. No, it’s a joke,” Klopp teased. “I don’t know, I don’t understand this part of the business, like what can you do and what can’t you do.
“How much, it’s a big number in the last two windows obviously. Okay, the players they brought in, I didn’t think once, ‘Why did they do that?’ They’re all good players, really good players so from that point of view, congratulations.
“When you can do it, then obviously they do it. But I don’t understand it, how it’s possible with all the things around? But it’s not up to me to explain how it works. Hopefully, you all know exactly how it works and it’s fine.
“Yeah (they have to make it work) but Graham (Potter) knows that. That’s clear, that’s something else but nobody is too interested in that. It will happen, at one point as well, that they will play well together, with the quality they have. How quick it will happen, I don’t know.”
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