Jurgen Klopp has outlined the workings of Liverpool’s transfer committee.
The term gained infamy under Brendan Rodgers amid claims that Klopp’s predecessor was at odds with the club’s recruitment team over signings.
That alleged disparity became crystallised in 2015, months before the German’s arrival, with Roberto Firmino and Christian Benteke both joining.
Since then, the Reds’ progression on targets has been significantly upgraded with Andy Robertson, Fabinho and Luis Diaz among many cast-iron successes.
But Klopp insists that the notoriety of the transfer committee is overplayed and detailed part of the process behind identifying potential new players.
He said: “You might remember when I arrived here in the first press conference, you asked me about the transfer committee.
“So I really thought ‘what’s the problem with the transfer committee?’ I just had to understand the word, because for me it’s always a transfer committee.
“It’s maybe not an official name of something but it sits a few smart people together and talk about a transfer and think ‘can we do it? or ‘can we not do it?’
“One says, ‘The money, it’s too much’, the other one says other information about his character and one says, ‘Forget all this, but I want him because he’s so good’.
“That’s what I understand what’s transfer committee; people who work in the same direction, but that was from the first moment like this.
“Yes, we have to be more economical because we do not have endless resources, but it’s fine as well. The players we wanted, we didn’t always get for different reasons.
“But if sometimes money was the reason, we thought then ‘No, we don’t want to do that’ and not ‘we cannot do it’.
“The main thing what you do if you make a transfer, you think so much about it: Will the player fit? Will the player help us? Can we help the player to make the next step? And will the player help us to make the next step?
“All the rest, you have to sort. It doesn’t work out always but sometimes it works out and the player can have an impact.
“That’s what we tried to do and will still.”