Jurgen Klopp was quite blunt in his response to being pressed upon whether his side would use the ongoing transfer window to sign a new central defender in the wake of the injury crisis at Anfield as the Liverpool FC boss insisted that such a decision was not in his hands to make.
The German has been urged time and again to splash the cash on additional defensive reinforcements whose arrival at Anfield could help the Merseyside outfit to pull through an injury-depleted backline, one which is notably missing the presence of the first-choice pairing of Virgil van Dijk and Joe Gomez.
However, Klopp has asserted several times of an inability that has fallen upon the 19-time top-flight champions to spend the cash in light of the financial situation brought on about by COVID-19 and a similar sort of statement was heard from the gaffer in the aftermath of Liverpool FC suffering a 1-0 defeat at the hands of Burnley on Thursday night.
“I am not a five-year-old kid any more and if I don’t get what I want I start crying,” said Klopp, as quoted by the Mirror.
“Most of the time in my life I didn’t get what I wanted, so pretty much used to that. We talk about a centre-half, and yes, it would help 100 percent.
“We discuss the situation pretty much on a daily basis, and I make recommendations.
“But I cannot spend the money. I don’t make these decisions. There are people who are responsible for the whole thing, and I cannot make their decisions.”
Despite the Liverpool FC manager distancing his team from the constant rumour-mongering of fresh faces at Anfield this January, the names of Ben White and Ozan Kabak are linked week in and week out with a move to the Premier League holders.
