Jurgen Klopp has defended Liverpool’s transfer strategy after their Premier League rivals’ big-spending summers.
Manchester City, Chelsea and Manchester United head into this weekend’s start of the new campaign having invested north of £75 million on reinforcements.
Ibrahima Konate’s £36m arrival, meanwhile, constitutes the Reds’ sole business in the market despite tying down several senior players to new long-term deals.
But speaking on Friday, after Virgil van Dijk pledged his future to Anfield, Klopp insisted that his side cannot operate in the same way as their top-flight peers.
He said: “We cannot spend money we don’t have.
“We cannot, the others can but we can’t. That’s my information.
“Chelsea are not hiding their ambitions, Man United isn’t, City isn’t.
“We don’t want to hide our ambitions because we want to fight for everything and in this moment it will be a massive fight.
“When the pandemic started and no-one knew how long it would be it was a difficult time for everyone, for football clubs as well.
“That is probably the reason why you ask me now if I’m surprised (about the spending).
“These clubs don’t depend on these kind of things I think.
“We all know the situation of Chelsea, the situation of City, and we all know the situation of PSG, for example. What United is doing I don’t know exactly how they do it.
“We have, obviously, our way to do it.
“I’m never surprised about the financial power of Chelsea, City or United.
“I am long enough in the country to know they always find a solution to do these kind of things.
“You cannot compare to the other clubs, they obviously don’t have any limits but we have limits and we were quite successful given the limits in the last two years.
“That is what we should try again and not use it as an excuse that if we do not win a game we say it was because we didn’t sign him or him.
“That will not be the case.”