Klopp on his "I wouldn't spend 100 million on a player", compared to Caicedo fee
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp spoke about his claim that he wouldn't spend 100 million on a player that he made in 2016 in reference to their 110 million pound fee agreed for Moises Caicedo
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00:00 Jürgen, on the transfers and the way the prices have gone up,
00:04 a number of years ago you said you could never envisage spending 100 million on a player,
00:09 is your stance changed because of the realisation you have to do that at times?
00:13 Everything changed, everything changed.
00:16 Obviously, do I like it? No.
00:19 But did I realise that I was wrong? Yes, definitely.
00:23 That's the way it goes, it's not great, it's not top, but it's the way it goes,
00:28 it will not go the other way around again,
00:31 Saudi Arabia will definitely not help with that, not blaming anybody,
00:35 it just will not help with it, another market with a lot of money.
00:38 Yeah, in the end, we as a club have to try to make sure that for us,
00:48 with our resources, with the money we have, we get the best possible team together.
00:54 And we all know in football it's like that, 50 per cent will like it and 50 per cent will say,
00:59 "Yeah, but I would have done this and that."
01:01 But you can believe me, we really try everything to bring together the best team or squad for us,
01:11 that's the idea, and we are not in Dreamland,
01:15 so it's not that we can just point on players and bring them in,
01:20 there's a lot of work to do, to do these kind of things,
01:25 and sometimes one door closes and the other opens up,
01:29 and these kind of things, so that happens.
01:33 But yes, if people want to throw my quotes from five or six years ago,
01:39 absolutely no problem, that was that day what I thought,
01:44 and I realise now I was wrong, so it's easy to admit that.