“A winter transfer works when you either wanted to sign a player the summer before or the summer after anyway.”
Jurgen Klopp has tended to avoid mid-season transfer activity at Liverpool when possible, with the Reds’ record under his watch an understandable reason why.
Virgil van Dijk is the obvious success story, but he would have been brought in the previous summer if Liverpool’s approach hadn’t angered Southampton and forced them to temporarily step away from a move.
