Ahead of the new Premier League season, rumours are rife that Liverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp, isn’t particularly happy with his lot.
According to Football Transfers, the German has let it be known that he’s unhappy with the backing in the transfer market from owners, FSG, and also feels that he’s
taken the club as far as he can.
Though it’s true that Liverpool were largely a disappointment during the 2022/23 campaign, Klopp isn’t known as a quitter, and there’s no suggestion either that the owners are unhappy with him.
There’s a risk that the Reds could miss out on one of their targets in Romeo Lavia, and that is possibly what’s behind the German’s ire, given that the club perhaps haven’t been as busy as he might like this summer.
The information that Football Transfers have released, however, doesn’t tally with that received by reliable journalist, Fabrizio Romano.
‘Honestly, I’ve nothing on rumours of Jurgen Klopp wanting to leave Liverpool. He’s completely focused on the job, he’s involved in transfer decisions, nothing has changed,’ he wrote in his exclusive CaughtOffside Substack.
‘I don’t know what will happen in 2024, because in football one year is like ten years in other jobs.’
As Romano states, a season in football is a lifetime and things can, and often do, change in the blink of an eye.
From Liverpool’s perspective, they need to improve in all aspects in 2023/24, and ensure that they’re not playing catch up throughout the early weeks of the campaign.
That may require one or two late window additions for Klopp and his staff to be totally happy, and it remains to be seen what will happen thereafter on the Anfield bench.
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Liverpool could repeat Cody Gakpo success with second Man Utd transfer hijack
COMMENT: Liverpool can hijack another Man Utd transfer to complete Jurgen Klopp’s business this summer.
Liverpool can repeat their hijacking of Manchester United’s pursuit of Cody Gakpo last season by trumping the Red Devils to Sofyan Amrabat ahead of the 2023-24
campaign. United are strongly linked with the Moroccan, who shone for his country at the World Cup and has caught the attention of Europe’s biggest clubs with his
performances for Fiorentina.
The Red Devils may now need to be wary of another Liverpool hijacking. Erik ten Hag seemed destined to land attacker Gakpo in January.
United were the favourites to sign the Dutchman from PSV in the winter window, with Ten Hag desperate to strengthen his attacking options following Cristiano
Ronaldo’s exit. Some reports even claimed that Gakpo favoured a move to Old Trafford over any other Premier League rival.
However, Liverpool quietly went about their business and made the prolific forward their only major signing in January. They struck a £35million deal on Christmas
Day to beat United to Gakpo’s signature.
The 24-year-old was therefore prepared to sign on the first day of the window and has been an excellent addition to Jurgen Klopp’s side. Two of his seven goals in
the second half of the 2022-23 campaign came in the 7-0 thrashing of rivals United in March.
Gakpo looks set to play an important role for Liverpool next season. He has spearheaded Klopp’s attack for much of pre-season and looks in fine form ahead of the
Premier League opener against Chelsea on Sunday.
And Amrabat could have a similar impact should Liverpool hijack United’s move for the defensive midfielder. Klopp sorely needs reinforcements in that position
having seen Jordan Henderson and Fabinho move to Saudi Arabia.
New signing Alexis Mac Allister has played in a deeper role but Klopp says the Argentine cannot do that in a stretched game against a strong opponent. “He’s a top-
class player with and without the ball,” Klopp said.
“We had our moments [against Darmstadt] where we were too open, we will work on it, we will test some things. In a compact formation, Alexis can play there, if it’s
open should he play there? No. But he showed he is a brilliant footballer and did really well.”
Signing Amrabat – for whom United need to sell stars before they can launch a reported £30m bid – would fill the void left by Henderson and Fabinho. He would
finally give Klopp the defensive midfielder he has been searching for this summer.
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