'The situation changed' - Klopp's midfield transfer stance revealed
FT Desk
- 15 Aug 2022 15:50 BST
- 3 min read
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has now admitted that his side would be interested in adding a midfielder to their ranks.
The German had recently insisted that the Reds' transfer activity was finished for the summer, after swooping for Darwin Nunez, Calvin Ramsay and Fabio Carvalho at the very beginning of the window.
A spate of injuries in the engine room, however, have prompted a possible change of heart.
Liverpool will be without Thiago Alcantara for six weeks and have also missed Naby Keita, Curtis Jones and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, though Keita may feature during their clash on Monday against Crystal Palace.
What did Klopp say about new signings?
"It's easy for us to bring a midfielder in, it's not so easy to bring the right midfielder in - for money reasons and contractual reasons," Klopp explained to Sky Sports.
"Most of the time they go hand in hand.
"It's not that we deny signing a player if they have a problem with injuries. It's a different season to the beginning of the pre-season, when everybody told me we needed a new midfielder - it was about the kind of midfielder.
"And it's a completely different discussion - we didn't need a new kind of midfielder.
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"But if the right midfielder would have been available, we would have gone there as well. Now the situation changed slightly, that's true. But it can only be about the right midfielder, that's not easy.
"It's because it's 2022 and people have contracts for four, five six years - and that's why we have to be calm and solve the problems with the boys we have."
Liverpool are looking for their first win of the Premier League season on Monday, having opened their campaign with a 2-2 draw against recently promoted Fulham.
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