An exasperated Jurgen Klopp hit back at a reporter for asking about Liverpool‘s transfer activity this month.
The German, speaking at his pre-Brighton press conference, became irritated and replied with a two-minute monologue outlining why he objected to the question and explaining the Reds’ transfer stance.
Carl Markham, a reporter with the Press Association asked: ‘You said earlier that you can’t solve all problems in the transfer market, is it because you don’t think there are players who can solve the problems, you can’t get them or is it financial?
Klopp interjected before he could finish: ‘Carl, really, honestly Carl, I have done, I think, six-thousand press conferences with Liverpool and you were pretty much part of 5,999 in different seats obviously but you were always there. If you want to write, or whatever, today you don’t write, today you just record, come on… Now I have to tell you again the money story? Really? Really? I have to tell it again?
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‘What could be the reason that we have money like crazy but we don’t buy the players even when they are available? That’s what you think of me? After all the years? So why are you asking the question when the answer lies on the table? I really don’t understand that, I really don’t that.
‘You stand here for… you drove here, I don’t know how you came here, you stand here and this is the question you have. You know the answer. And if I would answer and say “no, no, no, we have money in the bank, massively, we don’t know what to do with it… the players are all there, nah we don’t do that, nah”.
‘But we have, on top of that, the problem that at the moment four of our offensive players are injured. If we buy another one, then they come back, thankfully, not tomorrow but they will come back: Darwin soon, the others a little bit later… they come back and we have seven strikers then.
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He went on: ‘We couldn’t even put them all on the Champions League list! There are too many, we have to make a decision… who goes on, the new one, the others and stuff like this. It’s just not that easy.
‘You cannot solve the problem,…