Jurgen Klopp has named Liverpool’s first four “transfers” of the summer window as the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic rage on. Transfer dealings will likely be divergent once again ahead of the 2021/22 season following an entire campaign of empty stadiums and lost revenue.
Despite the evident complications, many mammoth moves have been touted for Europe’s most prominent stars this summer.
Jadon Sancho, Erling Haaland and Kylian Mbappe have all been linked with moves to the Premier League – and particularly Liverpool.
Alas, Klopp has played down the Reds’ transfer capabilities over the next four months and has instead focused on boosts within his ranks.
The German boss has affirmed that Liverpool will be strengthened by returning absentees they’ve so dearly missed this term, whatever happens on the transfer front.
He said: “Getting the injured players back makes us already better. These are our first transfers.”
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Klopp is set to also be without Ozan Kabak, Ben Davies, James Milner, Naby Keita and Divock Origi for the trip to Old Trafford – an already-unfavourable venue over the years.
Following Chelsea’s mediocre 1-0 defeat to Arsenal at Stamford Bridge last night, Liverpool’s Champions League hopes have been granted new life.
Klopp will know that maximum points from his side’s final four games should be enough to sneak into the Premier League’s top four.
Liverpool currently sit in sixth, seven points behind fourth-placed Chelsea and nine behind high-flying Leicester City in third.
However, the Reds have two games in hand on both clubs, who must play each other again in the league after Sunday’s FA Cup Final.
When discussing the summer market, Klopp acknowledged that a failure to qualify for Europe’s elite competition wouldn’t help matters on the transfer front.
“If we don’t play in the Champions League, that wouldn’t help obviously, but it is not our biggest problem because the market will be really strange,” Klopp explained.
They’ve required help, but Liverpool can somewhat still recover their season, starting with a monumental triumph in Manchester this evening.
