Jurgen Klopp believes Liverpool’s new recruits have to ‘hit the ground running’.
Anfield has earned a reputation for signing future stars in the making throughout Klopp’s five-and-a-half years, with Diogo Jota among them.
A brace from the Portugal international helped the Reds see off Leicester City on Thursday while January arrival Luis Diaz also excelled on his full debut.
But Klopp insists while there is no secret to his side’s impressive track record, there is little room for manoeuvre as a result of the club’s financial resources.
He said: “There’s no key, I don’t think, apart from having smart people in the right positions.
“But I’m pretty sure other teams do have that as well.
“I’m pretty sure it will be a success with Luis but we should not judge him after one game. So we should not praise the recruitment whatever.
“The boys we brought in, they were not bargains. It’s not that Ali (Alisson) was not really expensive. I think today everybody would say ‘yes, that was at least the price I would’ve paid for him if I would have known how good he is.
“Similar to Virgil (van Dik). Then we have brought Fabinho in, we brought Naby Keita in, we brought Sadio (Mane) in, Mo (Salah) in, so many players.
“I think it’s not a secret but the situation in this club here is that our transfers have to hit the ground [running] because we cannot make a £40-50m signing and in the end we think ‘well if he’s playing it’s not so important’ or whatever.
“It can always happen for injury reasons or stuff like this but it should not happen very often because it’s not that we say in Germany that we ‘swim in money’.
“It’s a wealthy club, we have no problems but the policy is clear – we will spend what we earn.
“If we earn more we can spend more. If we earn less, we can spend less. It does not mean we can do nothing but for us it’s important that we have to do absolutely the right thing.
“We have to think once about it, twice about it, three times about it and maybe a fourth time about it. If we think the fifth time about it, it might be that the player might go to another club. But we cannot change that.
“That’s what we did so far. The club had incredible free transfers with James (Milner) and Joel (Matip) and we brought real talents in with Robbo (Andy Robertson) and other guys.
“We have our own boys, players who were already here before I came. It’s a mix of everything.
“Actually I think transfers are very emotional business for the outside world. The fans think about it a lot with their heart and we have to just think about it.
“So cut off the heart and just think about what makes sense, what do we need now, what do we need tomorrow. That’s the transfer business.
“It’s not so easy – for us it’s pretty easy – to ignore the public pressure to be honest. Always around these dates it’s always like if you don’t sign, you don’t work.
“We see it slightly different but I don’t see that any differnet to other teams.
“It’s always the same but obviously with [sporting director] Michael Edwards and his team, and now Julian Ward and his team, we have brilliant people here who make really good proposals.
“We as coaches make [what we] think good proposals as well. In the end we’ve found more often than not the right solution for this team.”